A.D. 

 1585. 



[III. IOI.] 



Divers sorts 

 ofzvood. 



They may 

 make much 

 traine, if they 

 had meanes 

 how to use it. 



Moscovie 

 glasse. 



A fruit like 

 corinths. 



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they would by no meanes displease us, but would give us 

 whatsoever we asked of them, and would be satisfied 

 with whatsoever we gave them. They tooke great care 

 one of another: for when we had bought their boats, 

 then two other would come and cary him away betweene 

 them that had solde us his. They are very tractable 

 people, void of craft or double dealing, and easie to be 

 brought to any civility or good order : but we judge 

 them to be idolaters and to worship the Sunne. 



During the time of our abode among these Islands we 

 found reasonable quantity of wood, both firre, spruse and 

 juniper ; which whether it came floting any great distance 

 to these places where we found it, or whether it grew in 

 some great Islands neere the same place by us not yet 

 discovered, we know not ; but we judge that it groweth 

 there further into the land then we were, because the 

 people had great store of darts and oares which they 

 made none account of, but gave them to us for small 

 trifles, as points and pieces of paper. We saw about this 

 coast marveilous great abundance of seales skulling to- 

 gether like skuls of small fish. We found no fresh water 

 among these Islands, but onely snow water, whereof we 

 found great pooles. The cliffes were all of such oare as 

 M. Frobisher brought from Meta incognita. We had 

 divers shewes of Study or Muscovy glasse shining not 

 altogether unlike to Christall. We found an herbe grow- 

 ing upon the rocks, whose fruit was sweet, full of red 

 juice, and the ripe ones were like corinths. We found 

 also birch and willow growing like shrubbes low to the 

 ground. These people have great store of furres as we 

 judge. They made shewes unto us the 30 of this 

 present, which was the second time of our being with 

 them, after they perceived we would have skinnes and 

 furres, that they would go into the countrey and come 

 againe the next day with such things as they had : but 

 this night the winde comming faire, the captaine and the 

 master would by no meanes detract the purpose of our 

 discovery. And so the last of this moneth about foure 



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