A.D. 



l S77- 



Another shew 

 of twenty per- 

 sons of that 

 countrey in 

 one boate. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



he gave us plainely to understand by signes, that he 

 had knowledge of the taking of our five men the last 

 yeere, and confessing the maner of ech thing, num- 

 bred the five men upon his five fingers, and pointed 

 unto a boat in our ship, which was like unto that 

 wherein our men were betrayed : And when we made 

 him signes, that they were slaine and eaten, he earnestly 

 denied, and made signes to the contrary. 



The last of July the Michael returned with the 

 Aide to us from the Southerland, and came to anker 

 by us in the Countesse of Warwicks sound, and reported 

 that since we departed from Jackmans sound there 

 happened nothing among them there greatly worth the 

 remembrance, untill the thirtieth of July, when certaine 

 of our company being a shoare upon a small Island 

 within the sayd Jackmans sound, neere the place where 

 the Aide rode, did espie a long boat with divers of 

 the countrey people therein, to the number of eighteene 

 or twenty persons, whom so soone as our men per- 

 ceived, they returned speedily aboord, to give notice 

 thereof unto our company. They might perceive these 

 people climbing up to the top of a hill, where with a 

 fiagge, they wafted unto our ship, and made great out- 

 cries and noyses, like so many Buls. Hereupon our men 

 did presently man foorth a small skiffe, having not 

 above sixe or seven persons therein, which rowed neere 

 the place where those people were, to proove if they 

 could have any conference with them. But after this 

 small boate was sent a greater, being wel appointed for 

 their rescue, if need required. 



As soone as they espied our company comming neere 

 them, they tooke their boates and hasted away, either for 

 feare, or else for pollicie, to draw our men from rescue 

 further within their danger : wherefore our men con- 

 struing that their comming thither was but to seeke 

 advantage, followed speedily after them, but they rowed 

 so swiftly away, that our men could come nothing neere 

 them. Howbeit they failed not of their best endevour in 



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