MARTIN FROBISHER a.d. 



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They defile these dennes most filthily with their beastly [III. 67.] 



feeding, & dwell so long in a place (as we thinke) The sluttlsfl ~ 



untill their sluttishnes lothing them, they are forced to ness *°f these 



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seeke a sweeter ayre, and a new seate, and are (no 



doubt) a dispersed and wandring nation, as the Tar- 



tarians, and live in hords and troupes, without any 



certaine abode, as may appeare by sundry circumstances 



of our experience. 



Here our captive being ashore with us, to declare 4 s we set up 

 the use of such things as we saw, stayd himselfe alone h *** sa ff g f 

 behind the company, and did set up five small stickes ^^w 

 round in a circle one by another, with one smal bone therof. 

 placed just in the middest of all : which thing when 

 one of our men perceived, he called us backe to behold 

 the matter, thinking that hee had meant some charme 

 or witchcraft therein. But the best conjecture we could 

 make thereof was, that hee would thereby his countrey- 

 men should understand, that for our five men which 

 they betrayed the last yeere (whom he signified by the 

 five stickes) he was taken and kept prisoner, which he 

 signified by the bone in the midst. For afterwards The savage 

 when we shewed him the picture of his countreman, ca P twe amaz ~ 

 which the last yeere was brought into England (whose countr J mani 

 counterfeit we had drawen, with boate and other furni- picture. 

 ture, both as he was in his own, & also in English 

 apparel) he was upon the sudden much amazed thereat, 

 and beholding advisedly the same with silence a good 

 while, as though he would streine courtesie whether 

 should begin the speech (for he thought him no doubt 

 a lively creature) at length began to question with him, 

 as with his companion, and finding him dumb and 

 mute, seemed to suspect him, as one disdeinfull, and 

 would with a little helpe have growen into choller at 

 the matter, untill at last by feeling and handling, hee 

 found him but a deceiving picture. And then with 

 great noise and cryes, ceased not wondring, thinking 

 that we could make men live or die at our pleasure. 



And thereupon calling the matter to his remembrance, 



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