ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1577- 



within the streites, and is reckoned from the Cape of 



the Queenes foreland, which is the entrance of the 



Thirty leagues streites not above 30 leagues. Upon this Hand was 



^itkin'he ^ ounci g ood store °*" the ° re > wmch m the washing 

 straites. helde gold to our thinking plainly to be seene : where- 



upon it was thought best rather to load here, where 

 there was store and indifferent good, then to seeke 

 further for better, and spend time with jeoperdie. And 

 therefore our Generall setting the Myners to worke, 

 A good presl- and shewing first a good president of a painefull labourer 

 dent of a good an( j a g OOC j Captaine in himselfe, gave good examples 

 shewed h ^ or others to follow him : whereupon every man both 

 Captain Fro- better and worse, with their best endevours willingly 

 Usher. layde to their helping hands. And the next day, being 



the thirtieth of July, the Michaell was sent over to 

 Jackmans sound, for the Ayde and the whole companie 

 to come thither. Upon the maine land over against 

 the Countesses Hand we discovered and behelde to our 

 The maner of great marvell the poore caves and houses of those 

 their houses in countrey people, which serve them (as it should seeme) 

 coun ?ey. ^ t ^eir winter dwellings, and are made two fadome 

 under grounde, in compasse round, like to an Oven, 

 being joyned fast one by another, having holes like to 

 a Foxe or Conny berry, to keepe and come togither. 

 They undertrenched these places with gutters so, that 

 the water falling from the hilles above them, may 

 slide away without their annoyance : and are seated 

 commonly in the foote of a hill, to shield them better 

 from the cold windes, having their doore and entrance 

 Whales bones ever open towards the South. From the ground up- 

 used in stead war d tne y builde with whales bones, for lacke of 

 timber, which bending one over another, are handsomely 

 compacted in the top together, and are covered over 

 with Sealesskinnes, which in stead of tiles, fence them 

 from the raine. In which house they have only one 

 roome, having the one halfe of the floure raised with 

 broad stones a foot higher than ye other, whereon 

 strawing Mosse, they make their nests to sleep in. 



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