MARTIN FROBISHER ad. 



to make any escape. But so soone as they landed, ech of 

 them brake his Oare, thinking by that meanes to prevent 

 us, in carying away their boates for want of Oares. And Tories sound. 

 desperatly returning upon our men, resisted them man- J hot skirmish 

 fully in their landing, so long as their arrowes and dartes ^ tweene tJie 

 lasted, and after gathering up those arrowes which our t ^f m tS Al at 

 men shot at them, yea, and plucking our arrowes out countrey. 

 of their bodies incountred afresh againe, and maintained 

 their cause untill both weapons and life fayled them. 

 And when they found they were mortally wounded, being 

 ignorant what mercy meaneth, with deadly fury they cast The desperate 

 themselves headlong from off the rockes into the sea, nature of those 

 least perhaps their enemies should receive glory or prey P eo P ' 

 of their dead carcaises, for they supposed us belike to be 

 Canibals or eaters of mans flesh. In this conflict one 

 of our men was dangerously hurt in the belly with one 

 of their arrowes, and of them were slaine five or sixe, 

 the rest by flight escaping among the rockes, saving two 

 women, whereof the one being old and ugly, our men 

 thought shee had bene a devill or some witch, and there- 

 fore let her goe : the other being yong, and cumbred The taking of 

 with a sucking childe at her backe, hiding her selfe behind the woman & 



her rhil/] 



the rockes, was espied by one of our men, who supposing 



she had bene a man, shot through the haire of her head, 



and pierced through the childs arme, whereupon she cried 



out, and our Surgeon meaning to heale her childes arme, 



applyed salves thereunto. But she not acquainted with 



such kind of surgery, plucked those salves away, and by 



continuall licking with her owne tongue, not much un- A prety kind 



like our dogs, healed up the childes arme. And because °f sur &H 

 .1 j 1 j 1 which nature 



the day was welneere spent our men made haste unto uac j^^ 



the rest of our company which on the other side of the 

 water remained at the tents, where they found by the 

 apparell, letter, and other English furniture, that they 

 were the same company which Captaine Yorke dis- 

 covered the night before, having removed themselves 

 from the place where he left them. 



And now considering their sudden flying from our 

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