dwelling along 

 this river 



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same ceremonies of worshipping the crosse, which I had 

 taught the rest. And that principal old man which I 

 tooke with me, told me that farther up the river I should 

 find people which would understand mine interpreter : 

 and being now late, some of those men called me to 

 give me victuals, and did in all poynts as the others 

 had done, dauncing and playing to shew me pleasure. I 

 desired to know what people lived on the banks of this 

 People of 2T,. river: and 1 understood by this man that it was in- 

 T£^/;fl^^7^^n- habited by 23 languages, and these were bordering upon 

 the river, besides others not farre off, and that there 

 were besides these 23. languages, other people also which 

 hee knewe not, above the river. I asked him whether 

 every people were living in one towne together : and he 

 answered me, No : but that they had many houses 

 standing scattered in the fieldes, and that every people 

 had their Countrey severall and distinguished, and that 

 in every habitation there were great store of people. 

 AcucoasGo- He shewed me a towne which was in a mountaine, 

 mara writeth ^^^j ^^jj ^^ ^^^ \}ci^v^ was there great store of people 



IS on a sirens. r ^ ^ ^^ - ^ - ^ 1 • 1 rr 



mountaine. ^^ ^^^ conditions, which made continual warre upon 

 them : which being without a governour, and dwelling 

 in that desert place, where small store of Maiz groweth, 

 came downe into the playne to buy it in trucke of Deeres 

 skinnes, wherewith they were apparelled with long gar- 

 ments, which they did cutte with rasors, and sewed with 

 Great houses needles made of Deeres bones : and that they had great 

 of stone. houses of stone. I asked them whether there were any 



there of that Countrey ; and I found one woman which 

 ware a garment like a little Mantle, which clad her from 

 the waste downe to the ground, of a Deeres skin well 

 dressed. Then I asked him whether the people which 

 dwelt on the rivers side, dwelt alwayes there, or els 

 sometime went to dwell in some other place: he answered 

 mee, that in the summer season they aboade there, and 

 sowed there ; and after they had gathered in their croppe 

 they went their way, and dwelt in other houses which 

 they had at the foote of the mountaine farre from the 



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