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men, and their desperate maner of fighting, we began 

 to suspect that we had heard the last newes of our men 

 which the last yere were betrayed of these people. And 

 considering also their ravenous and bloody disposition 

 in eating any kind of raw flesh or carrion howsoever 

 stinking, it is to bee thought that they had slaine and 

 devoured our men : For the dublet which was found 

 in their tents had many holes therein being made with 

 their arrowes and darts. 



[III. 69.] But now the night being at hand, our men with their 



captives and such poore stuffe as they found in their 

 tents, returned towards their ships, when being at sea, 

 there arose a sudden flaw of winde, which was not a 

 little dangerous for their small boates : but as God would 

 they came all safely aboord. And with these good newes 

 they returned (as before mentioned) into the Countesse 

 of Warwicks sound unto us. And betweene Jackmans 

 sound, from whence they came, and the Countesse of 

 Warwicks sound betweene land and land, being thought 



The narrowest the narrowest place of the Straights were judged nine 



place of the leagues over at the least : and Tackmans sound being 

 Straites is o . . ® 



leagues over. u P on the Southerland, lyeth directly almost over against 



the Countesses sound, as is reckoned scarce thirty leagues 



The Queenes within the Straights from the Queenes Cape, which is 



Cape. t j ie ent rance of the Streits of the Southerland. This Cape 



being named Queene Elizabeths Cape, standeth in the 



latitude of 62 degrees and a halfe to the Northwards 



of New found land, and upon the same continent, for 



any thing that is yet knowen to the contrary. 



The maner of Having now got a woman captive for the comfort 



the meeting of Q f Qur man we brought them both together, and every 



the two cat- ... o ? j 



twes andtheir man w ^h s ^ ence desired to behold the maner of their 



entertainment, meeting and entertainment, the which was more worth 



the beholding than can be well expressed by writing. 



At their first encountring they beheld each the other 



very wistly a good space, without speech or word uttered, 



with great change of colour and countenance, as though it 



seemed the griefe and disdeine of their captivity had 



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