A.D. 



*S77- 



The building 

 of a Columne, 

 called Mount 

 Warwicke. 



The first sight 

 of the countrie 

 people, waft- 

 ing with a 

 fiagge. 



The meeting 

 a part of two 

 Englishmen, 

 with two of 

 that countrey. 



The order oj 

 their traffique- 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



leaving his boates here with sufficient guarde we passed 

 up into the countrey about two English miles, and re- 

 covered the toppe of a high hill, on the top whereof our 

 men made a Columne or Crosse of stones heaped up 

 of a good heigth togither in good sort, and solemnely 

 sounded a Trumpet, and saide certaine prayers kneeling 

 about the Ensigne, and honoured the place by the name 

 of Mount Warwicke, in remembrance of the Right 

 Honorable the Lord Ambrose Dudley Earle of Warwick, 

 whose noble mind and good countenance in this, as in 

 all other good actions, gave great encouragement and 

 good furtherance. This done, we retyred our companies 

 not seeing any thing here worth further discoverie, the 

 countrey seeming barren and full of ragged mountaines 

 and in most parts covered with snow. 



And thus marching towards our botes, we espied 

 certaine of the countrey people on the top of Mount 

 Warwick with a flag wafting us backe againe and making 

 great noise, with cries like the mowing of Buls seeming 

 greatly desirous of conference with us : whereupon the 

 Generall being therewith better acquainted, answered 

 them againe with the like cries, whereat and with the 

 noise of our trumpets they seemed greatly to rejoyce, 

 skipping, laughing and dancing for joy. And hereupon 

 we made signes unto them, holding up two fingers, com- 

 manding two of our men to go apart from our companies, 

 whereby they might do the like. So that forthwith two 

 of our men & two of theirs met togither a good space 

 from company, neither partie having their weapons about 

 them. Our men gave them pins and points and such 

 trifles as they had. And they likewise bestowed on our 

 men two bow cases and such things as they had. They 

 earnestly desired our men to goe up into their countrey, 

 and our men offered them like kindnesse aboord our 

 ships, but neither part (as it seemed) admitted or trusted 

 the others curtesie. Their maner of traffique is thus, 

 they doe use to lay downe of their marchandise upon 

 the ground, so much as they meane to part withal, and 



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