DESCRIPTION OF META INCOGNITA a.d. 



1578. 



should put off his coat or discover his whole body for 

 change, hee would not suffer the woman to bee present, 

 but put her forth of his Cabin. And in all the space 

 of two or three moneths, while the man lived in com- 

 pany of the woman, there was never any thing seene 

 or perceived betweene them, more then might have 

 passed betweene brother and sister : but the woman was 

 in all things very serviceable for the man, attending him 

 carefully when he was sicke, and he likewise in all the 

 meates which they did eate together, woulde carve 

 unto her of the sweetest, fattest, and best morsels they 

 had. They wondred much at all our things, and were 

 afraid of our horses and other beasts out of measure. 

 They began to grow more civill, familiar, pleasant, and 

 docible amongst us in very short time. 



They have boates made of leather, and covered cleane Their boates. 

 over saving one place in the middle to sit in, planked 

 within with timber, and they use to row therein with 

 one Ore, more swiftly a great deale, then we in our 

 boates can doe with twentie. They have one sort of 

 greater boates wherein they can carrie above twentie per- 

 sons, and have a Mast with a saile thereon, which saile 

 is made of thinne skinnes or bladders, sowed togither 

 with the sinewes of fishes. 



They are good Fishermen, and in their small Boates 

 being disguised with their coates of Seales skinnes, they 

 deceive the fish, who take them rather for their fellow 

 Seales, then for deceiving men. 



They are good marke-men. With their dart or arrow 

 they will commonly kill a Ducke, or any other foule in 

 the head, and commonly in the eye. 



When they shoote at a great fish with any of their 

 darts, they use to tye a bladder thereunto, whereby they 

 may the better find them againe, and the fish not able 

 to cary it so easily away (for that the bladder doth boy 

 the dart) will at length be wearie, and dye therewith. ^^J?f wW 



They use to trafiike and exchange their commodities nat - wn m _ 

 with some other people, of whom they have such things knowen. 



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