A.D. 

 1540. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



away, they would runne unto him, and take them from 



him by force, and would breake them in pieces in my 



presence. Afterward they tooke the rope so lovingly, and 



with striving one with another for it, that we had no need 



to pray them to doe it. Wherefore if we had not had this 



An exceeding helpe, the current of the river being exceeding great, and 



great current ^^^ vcl^vl that drew the rope being: not well acquainted 

 of the Ttver, . . . ^ , '•, 



with that occupation, it would have beene impossible for 



us to have gotten up the river so against the streame. 

 When I perceived that they understood mee in all things, 

 and that I likewise understoode them, I thought good 

 to try by some way or other to make a good entrance 

 to find some good issue to obtaine my desire : And I 

 caused certaine crosses to be made of certaine small sticks 

 and paper, and among others when I gave any thing I 

 gave them these as things of most price and kissed them, 

 making signes unto them that they should honour them 

 and make great account of them, and that they should 

 weare them at their necks : giving them to understand 

 that this signe was from heaven, and they tooke them 

 and kissed them, and lifted them up aloft, and seemed 

 greatly to rejoyce thereat when they did so, and sometime 

 I tooke them into my boate, shewing them great good 

 will, and sometime I gave them of those trifles which I 

 caried with me. And at length the matter grew to such 

 issue, that I had not paper and stickes ynough to make 

 crosses. In this maner that day I was very well accom- 

 panied, untill that when night approched I sought to 

 lanch out into the river, and went to ride in the 

 middest of the streame, and they came to aske leave 

 of me to depart, saying that they would returne the 

 next day with victuals to visite me, and so by litle 

 and little they departed, so that there stayed not above 

 fiftie which made fires over against us, and stayed there 

 al night calling us, and before the day was perfectly 

 broken, they leapt into the water and swamme unto 

 us asking for the rope, and we gave it them with a 

 good will, thanking God for the good provision which 



