A.D. 



1540. 



200. Ktndes 

 of people. 



This might be 

 the crooke 

 backed oxe 

 of Quiz'ira. 



The sea side. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



And when againe I began to aske him more questions, he 

 would not answere me, saying that he was wearie of me : 

 and many of those Indians comming about me, they said 

 among themselves : Let us marke him well, that we 

 may knowe him when he commeth backe againe. The 

 Monday following, the river was beset with people like 

 to them, and I began to request the old man to tell me 

 what people were in that countrey, which told me he 

 thought I would soone forget them : and here he reckoned 

 up unto me a great number of lords, and people at the 

 least 200. And discoursing with him of their armour, 

 he said that some of them had certaine very large targets 

 of lether, above two fingers thicke. I asked him of 

 what beasts skinne they made them : and he described 

 unto me a very great beast, like unto an Oxe, but 

 longer by a great handfull, with broad feete, the legs as 

 bigge as the thigh of a man, and the head seven hand- 

 fulls long, the forehead of three spannes, and the eyes 

 bigger then ones fist, and the homes of the length of 

 a mans leg, out of which grew sharpe poynts, an handfull 

 long, the forfeete and hinderfeete above seven handfuls 

 bigge, with a wrethed tayle, but very great ; and holding 

 up his armes above his head, he said the beast was 

 higher then that. After this hee gave mee information 

 of another olde woman which dwelt toward the sea side. 

 I spent this day in giving crosses to those people as 

 I had done unto the former. This old man that was 

 with me leapt on shore, & fell in conference with 

 another which that day had often called him ; and here 

 both of them used many gestures in their speach, mooving 

 their armes, and poynting at me. Therefore I sent 

 mine interpreter out, willing him to drawe neere unto 

 them, and listen what they said ; and within a while I 

 called him, and asked him whereof they talked, and he 

 sayd, that he which made those gestures said unto the 

 other, that in Cevola there were others like unto us 

 with beards, and that they said they were Christians, and 

 that both of them sayd that we were all of one company, 



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