A.D. 



1577- 



The English- 

 men chased to 

 their boates. 



One of that 

 Countreymen 



taken. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



that they chased them to their boates, and hurt the 

 Generall in the buttocke with an arrow, who the rather 

 speedily fled backe, because they suspected a greater 

 number behind the rockes. Our souldiers (which were 

 commanded before to keepe their boates) perceiving the 

 danger, and hearing our men calling for shot came 

 speedily to rescue, thinking there had bene a greater 

 number. But when the Salvages heard the shot of one 

 of our calivers (and yet having first bestowed their 

 arrowes) they ranne away, our men speedily following 

 them. But a servant of my Lorde of Warwick, called 

 Nicholas Conger a good footman, and uncombred with 

 any furniture having only a dagger at his backe over- 

 tooke one of them, and being a Cornishman and a good 

 wrastler, shewed his companion such a Cornish tricke, 

 that he made his sides ake against the ground for a 

 moneth after. And so being stayed, he was taken alive 

 and brought away, but the other escaped. Thus with 

 their strange and new prey our men repaired to their 

 boates, and passed from the maine to a small Hand of 

 a mile compasse, where they resolved to tarrie all night ; 

 for even now a sodaine storme was growen so great at 

 sea, that by no meanes they could recover their ships. 

 And here every man refreshed himselfe with a small 

 portion of victuals which was laide into the boates for 

 their dinners, having neither eate nor drunke all the day 

 before. But because they knewe not how long the 

 storme might last, nor how farre off the shippes might 

 be put to sea, nor whether they should ever recover 

 them againe or not, they made great spare of their 

 victuals, as it greatly behoved them : For they knew 

 full well that the best cheare the countrey could yeeld 

 them, was rockes and stones, a hard food to live withall, 

 and the people more readie to eate them then to give 

 them wherewithall to eate. And thus keeping verie good 

 watch and warde, they lay there all night upon hard 

 cliffes of snow and yce both wet, cold, and comfortlesse. 

 These things thus hapning with the company on land, 



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