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1565. 

 the others were of: I commanded the Sawyers that 

 they should prepare plancks, the Smithes to prepare 

 yron and nailes, and certaine others to make coales : so 

 that the barke was finished in eighteene dayes. After- 

 ward I made another lesser then the first, the better to 

 discover up the river. In this meane space the Indians 

 visited me, and brought me dayly certaine presents, as 

 Fish, Deere, Turki-cocks, Leopards, little Beares, and 

 other things according to the place of their habitation. 

 I recompensed them with certaine Hatchets, Knives, 

 Beads of glasse. Combes, and Looking-glasses. Two 

 Indians came unto me one day to salute me on the 

 behalfe of their King, whose name was Marracou, KingMarra- 

 dwelling from the place of our fort some forty leagues <:ou. 

 toward the South, and tolde mee that there was one in 

 the house of King Onathaqua which was called Barbu King Onatha- 

 or the bearded man, and in the house of King ^«^- 

 Mathiaca another man whose name they knew not, i^^H^^^^^- 

 which was not of their nation : whereupon I conceived 

 that these might be some Christians. Wherefore I 

 sent to all the kings my neighbours to pray them, that 

 if there were any Christian dwelling in their countreys, 

 they would finde meanes that he might be brought unto 

 mee, and that I would make them double recompense. 

 They which love rewards, tooke so much paine, that Two Span- 

 the two men, whereof we have spoken, were brought yards brought 

 unto the fort unto me. They were naked, wearing ^nto Lau- 

 their haire long unto their hammes as the Savages tl^^^^^mzes 

 use to do, and were Spanyards borne, yet so well 

 accustomed to the fashion of the countrey that at 

 the first sight they found our maner of apparell 

 strange. After that I had questioned of certaine 

 matters with them, I caused them to be apparelled, 

 and to cut their haire ; which they would not loose, 

 but lapped it up in a linnen cloth, saying that they 

 would cary it into their countrey to be a testimony of 

 the misery that they had indured in the Indies. In the 

 haire of one of them was found a little gold hidden, to 

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