MARTIN FROBISHER ad. 



1577- 

 taken away the use of their tongues and utterance : 

 the woman at the first very suddenly, as though she 

 disdeined or regarded not the man, turned away, and 

 began to sing as though she minded another matter : 

 but being againe brought together, the man brake up the 

 silence first, and with sterne and stayed countenance, 

 began to tell a long solemne tale to the woman, where- 

 unto she gave good hearing, and interrupted him nothing, 

 till he had finished, and afterwards, being growen into 

 more familiar acquaintance by speech, they were turned 

 together, so that (I thinke) the one would hardly have 

 lived without the comfort of the other. And for so 

 much as we could perceive, albeit they lived continually 

 together, yet they did never use as man & wife, though 

 the woman spared not to doe all necessary things that 

 appertained to a good houswife indifferently for them 

 both, as in making cleane their Cabin, and every other 

 thing that appertained to his ease : for when he was 

 seasicke, she would make him cleane, she would kill 

 and flea the dogs for their eating, and dresse his meate. 

 Only I thinke it worth the noting, the continencie of The shame- 

 them both : for the man would never shift himselfe, f a ^™ an J 

 except he had first caused the woman to depart out those lavage 

 of his cabin, and they both were most shamefast, least captives. 

 any of their privie parts should be discovered, either 

 of themselves, or any other body. 



On Munday the sixth of August, the Lieutenant with 

 all the Souldiers, for the better garde of the Myners 

 and the other things a shore, pitched their tents in the 

 Countesses Island, and fortifyed the place for their better 

 defence as well as they could, and were to the number 

 of forty persons, when being all at labour, they might 

 perceive upon the top of a hill over against them a 

 number of the countrey people wafting with a flag, and Another ap- 

 making great outcries unto them, and were of the same prance of the 

 companie, which had encountred lately our men upon p eo pi e 

 the other shore, being come to complaine their late 

 losses, and to entreate (as it seemed) for restitution of 



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