well dressed 

 with a 

 gra'ine. 



FRANCIS DE ULLOA ad. 



1540. 

 stood in great neede of them both. And while we 

 marched forward, we saw in certaine little vallies the 

 goods which the women had left there behind them in 

 their flight : for the Indians as soone as they saw us 

 pursue them overtooke the women, and for feare charged 

 them to flie away with their children leaving their stuiFe 

 in this place. We went unto this booty, and found 

 good store of fresh-fish, and dried fish, and certaine bags 

 containing above 28 pound weight full of dried fish 

 ground to pouder, and many seal-skins, the most part 

 dressed with a faire white graine upon them, and others Seale-skins 

 very badly dressed. There were also their instruments ^f^^^^-^-^^. 

 to fish withall, as hookes made of the prickes of certaine 

 shrubs and trees. Here we tooke the said skins without 

 leaving any one in the place, and then we returned to 

 the sea, because it was now night, or at least very late, 

 and found our botes waiting for us. 



Chap. 13. 



A description of the Canoas of the Indians of the He 

 of Cedars, and how coasting the same to find fresh 

 water they found some, and desiring to take thereof 

 they went on shore, and were diversly molested with 

 the weapons of the Indians. They christen an old 

 Indian, and returne unto their ships. 



THe Canoas which they had were certaine thicke 

 trunkes of Cedars, some of them of the thicknesse 

 of two men, and three fadome long, being not made 

 hollow at all, but being laid along and fastened together, 

 they shove them into the sea, neither were they plained 

 to any purpose, for we found no kind of edge-toole, 

 saving that there were certaine sharp stones, which we 

 found upon certaine rockes that were very keene, where- 

 with we supposed that they did cut & flea those seales. 

 And neere the shore we found certaine water, where- 

 with we filled certaine bottles made of the skins of those 

 seales, contayning ech of them above a great paile of 

 water. The next day our Generall commanded us to 



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