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would come in their Botes very neere to us, as it were to 

 brag at us : whereof our Generall having advertisement, 

 sent for the Captaines and Gentlemen of the Ships, to 

 accompany and attend upon him, with the Captaine also 

 of the Anne Francis, who was but the night before come 

 unto us. For they, and the Fleebote having lost us the 

 26. day in the great snowe, put into an harbour in the 

 Queenes foreland, where they found good Oare, where- 

 with they laded themselves, and came to seeke the 

 Generall : so that now we had all our Shippes, saving 

 one Barke, which was lost, and the Thomas of Ipswich, 

 who (compelled by what furie I knowe not) forsooke 

 our company, and returned home without lading. 

 Their speedie Our Generall accompanied with his Gentlemen, (of 

 flight at our w hom I spake) came all together to the Countesse of 

 rival/ Sussex Island, neere to Beares sound : where he manned 



out certaine Pinnisses, and went over to the people : who 

 perceiving his arrivall, fledde away with all speede, and 

 in haste left certaine dartes and other engines behinde 

 them, which we found : but the people we could not 

 finde. 



The next morning our Generall perceiving certaine of 

 them in botes upon the Sea, gave chase to them in a 

 Pinnesse under saile, with a fresh gale of winde, but 

 could by no meanes come neere unto them : for the 

 longer he sailed, the further off he was from them : which 

 well shewed their cunning and activitie. Thus time 

 wearing away, and the day of our departure approching, 

 our Generall commaunded us to lade with all expedition, 

 that we might be againe on Seaboard with our ships : 

 for whilest we were in the Countrey, we were in con- 

 tinual danger of freezing in : for often snow and haile 

 often falling, the water was so much frosen and congealed 

 in the night, that in the morning we could scarce rowe 

 our botes or Pinnesses, especially in Diers sound, which 

 is a calme and still water : which caused our Generall to 

 make the more haste, so that by the 30. day of August 

 we were all laden, and made all things ready to depart. 



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