MARTIN FROBISHER a.d. 



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hoped for upon the sudden from the ships if need so 

 required, & every part was found in good readines upon 

 such a sudden. 



Saturday the eleventh of August the people shewed 

 themselves againe, & called unto us from the side of a 

 hil over against us. The General (with good hope to 

 heare of his men, and to have answere of his letter) went 

 over unto them, where they presented themselves not 

 above three in sight, but were hidden indeede in greater 

 numbers behind the rockes, and making signes of delay 

 with us to intrappe some of us to redeeme their owne, 

 did onely seeke advantage to traine our boat about a 

 point of land from sight of our companie : whereupon 

 our men justly suspecting them, kept aloofe without their [III. 71.] 

 danger, and yet set one of our company ashore, which 

 tooke up a great bladder which one of them offered us, A bladder 

 and leaving a looking glasse in the place, came into the ^f^^J 

 boate againe. In the meane while our men which stood 

 in the Countesses Island to beholde, who might better 

 discerne them, then those of the boate, by reason they 

 were on higher ground, made a great outcrie unto our 

 men in the boate, for that they saw divers of the Savages 

 creeping behind the rockes towards our men, wherupon N °™ we l / 

 the Generall presently returned without tidings of his ^ v *f/' 

 men. 



Concerning this bladder which we received, our Cap- To "**.<** 



. P . . . . . .the bladder 



tive made signes that it was given him to keepe water was de % veredt 



and drinke in, but we suspected rather it was given 



him to swimme and shift away withall, for he and the 



woman sought divers times to escape, having loosed our 



boates from asterne our ships, and we never a boate left 



to pursue them withall, and had prevailed very farre, 



had they not bene very timely espied and prevented 



therein. 



After our Generals comming away from them they Yandlgtpon 

 mustred themselves in our sight, upon the top of a hill, the hil to pp ei% 

 to the number of twenty in a rancke, all holding hands 

 over their heads, and dancing with great noise and songs 



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