A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1539- 

 [III. 408.] we might recover the point of land to take in fresh 

 water, and to search whether there were any people 

 about that lake. Here we lay from the 26 of the saide 

 moneth till the 29, driving up and downe the Sea, 

 winding in by little and little untill we had gotten under 

 the shelter of those mountaines : which being obtayned 

 wee rode the sayd 29 of the moneth halfe a league 

 from those wooddy mountaines, which we had seene in 

 the Sea. We stayed in this place at our ease all the 

 Sunday, and Juan Castilio the chiefe Pilot went that 

 day in the bote on shore with seven in his company, 

 and they landed neere the Sea, and on a certaine low 

 ground they found foure or five Indians Chichimecas of 

 great stature, and went toward them, who fled away like 

 Deere that had beene chased. After this the Pilot went 

 a little way along the Sea-shore, and then returned to 

 his boate, and by that time he was entered thereinto, 

 he saw about fifteene Indians of great stature also, with 

 their bowes and arrowes which called unto him with 

 a loude and strong voice, making signes with their 

 bowes ; but the Pilot made no account of their gesture, 

 but rather returned to the shippes, and declared what had 

 passed betweene him and the Indians. The same day 

 the Captaine commaunded that our caske should be 

 made readie against the next morning to take in water, 

 for in both the shippes there were about five and twentie 

 buttes emptie. The first of December, and the second 

 day in the morning the Captaine went with both the 

 barkes on shore with some dozen souldiers, and the 

 greatest part of the Mariners which laboured in filling 

 of water, leaving in the shippes as many as were neede- 

 full, and as soone as wee were come on shore at the 

 watering place the Captaine caused the buttes to be 

 taken out, to the ende they might be filled with water, 

 and while they returned to fetch the barrels and hogs- 

 heads of the shippe, the Captaine walked a turne or two 

 upon the shore for the space of one or two crossebow 

 shoots, and afterwarde we went up to certaine of those 



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