JOHN DAVIS 



A.D. 



1585. 



Canons. 



hard that we might heare the blow. This hee did many 

 times before he would any way trust us. Then John 

 Ellis the Master of the Mooneshine was appointed to use 

 his best policie to gaine their friendship ; who strooke 

 his breast, and pointed to the Sunne after their order : 

 which when he had divers times done, they beganne to 

 trust him, and one of them came on shoare, to whom we 

 threw our cappes, stockings and gloves, and such other 

 things as then we had about us, playing with our 

 musicke, and making signes of joy, and dauncing. So 

 the night comming, we bade them farewell, and went 

 aboord our barks. 



The next morning being the 30 of July there came 37 Thirty seven 

 Canoas rowing by our ships, calling to us to come on 

 shoare: we not making any great haste unto them, one 

 of them went up to the toppe of the rocke, and leapt and 

 daunced as they had done the day before, shewing us 

 a seales skinne, and another thing made like a timbrell, 

 which he did beat upon with a sticke, making a noise Their musike. 

 like a small drumme. Whereupon we manned our boats 

 and came to them, they all staying in their Canoas : we 

 came to the water side were they were : and after we 

 had sworne by the Sunne after their fashion, they did 

 trust us. So I shooke hands with one of them, and he 

 kissed my hand, and we were very familiar with them. 

 We were in so great credit with them upon this single Great famili- 

 acquaintance, that we could have any thing they had. ari 9 unth the 

 We bought five Canoas of them : we bought their clothes 

 from their backs, which were all made of seales skinnes 

 & birds skinnes ; their buskins, their hose, their gloves, 

 all being commonly sowed and well dressed : so that we 

 were fully perswaded that they have divers artificers 

 among them. We had a paire of buskins of them full of 

 fine wooll like bever. Their apparell for heat was made 

 of birds skinnes with their feathers on them. We saw 

 among them leather dressed like Glovers leather, and 

 thicke thongs like white leather of a good length. We 

 had of their darts and oares, and found in them that 



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