DISCOVERY OF NEWFOUNDLAND 



Of three Savages which Cabot brought home 

 and presented unto the King in the four- 

 teenth yere of his raigne, mentioned by the 

 foresaid Robert Fabian. 



A.D. 



1497- 



His yeere also were brought unto the 

 king three men taken in the Newfound 

 Island that before I spake of, in William 

 Purchas time being Maior : These were 

 clothed in beasts skins, & did eate raw 

 flesh, and spake such speach that no man 

 could understand them, and in their [III. 

 demeanour like to bruite beastes, whom the King kept 

 a time after. Of the which upon two yeeres after, I 

 saw two apparelled after the maner of Englishmen in 

 Westminster pallace, which that time I could not dis- 

 cerne from Englishmen, til I was learned what they 

 were, but as for speach, I heard none of them utter 

 one word. 



A briefe extract concerning the discoverie of New- 

 found-land, taken out of the booke of M. 

 Robert Thorne, to doctor Leigh, &c. 



Reason, that as some sickenesses are 

 hereditarie, so this inclination or desire 

 of this discovery I inherited from my 

 father, which with another marchant of 

 Bristol named Hugh Eliot, were the 

 discoverers of the Newfound-lands; of 

 the which there is no doubt (as nowe 



plainely appeareth) if the Mariners would then have 

 bene ruled, and followed their Pilots minde, but the 

 lands of the West Indies, from whence all the golde 

 commeth, had bene ours ; for all is one coast as by 

 the Card appeareth, and is aforesaid. 



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