A.D. 

 1565. 



The ink na- 

 ture of the 

 Indians. 



A cruell an- 

 swer e of the 

 Savages. 



Pinocke a cer- 

 tatne kinde of 

 fruit as higge 

 as cheries. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



they brought of their mast and of their fish : which these 

 Indians being traiterous, & mischievous of nature, and 

 knowing our exceeding strange famine, sold us at so 

 deere a price, that for lesse then nothing they had gotten 

 from us al the rest of our marchandise which remained. 

 And which was worse, fearing to be forced by us and 

 seeing that they had gotten all from us, they came no 

 neerer to our Fort then the shot of an Harquebuze. 

 Thither they brought their fish in their little boats, to 

 which our poore souldiers were constrained to goe, and 

 oftentimes (as I have scene) to give away the very shirts 

 from their backs to get one fish. If at any time they 

 shewed unto the Savages the excessive price which they 

 tooke, these villaines would answere them roughly & 

 churlishly : if thou make so great account of thy mar- 

 chandise, eat it, and we will eat our fish : then fell 

 they out a laughing and mocked us with open throat. 

 Wherupon our souldiers utterly impatient, were often- 

 times ready to cut them in pieces, and to make them 

 pay the price of their foolish arrogancie. Notwithstand- 

 ing considering the importance hereof, I tooke paines 

 to appease the impatient souldier : for I would not by 

 any meanes enter into question with the Savages, & it 

 suffised me to delay the time. Wherefore I devised to 

 send unto Utina to pray him to deale so farre foorth 

 with his subjects, as to succour me with mast and maiz : 

 which he did very sparingly, sending me 12 or 15 

 baskets of mast, and two of pinocks, which are a kind 

 of little greene fruits which grow among the weedes in 

 the river, and are as big as cheries : yea, & this was 

 not but by giving of them in exchange twise as much 

 marchandise and apparell as they were worth. For the 

 subjectes of Utina perceived evidently the necessitie 

 wherein we were, & began to use the like speech unto 

 us, as the others did : as it is commonly scene that 

 neede altereth mens affections. While these things were 

 in doing, a certain breathing space presented it selfe for 

 Utina gave me to understand that there was a king his 



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