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backwards : whereupon we ran all upon him with boare- 

 speares, and thrust him in the body : yet for all that he 

 gript away our boare-speares, and went towards the 

 water ; and as he was going downe, he came backe againe. 

 Then our Master shot his boare-speare, and strooke him 

 in the head, and made him to take the water, and 

 swimme into a cove fast by, where we killed him, and 

 brought him aboord. The breadth of his forefoot from 

 one side to the other was foureteene inches over. They 

 were very fat, so as we were constrained to cast the fat 

 away. We saw a raven upon Mount Raleigh. We 

 found withies also growing like low shrubs & flowers 

 like Primroses in the sayd place. The coast is very 

 mountainous, altogether without wood, grasse, or earth, 

 and is onely huge mountaines of stone ; but the bravest 

 stone that ever we saw. The aire was very moderate in 

 this countrey. 



The 8 we departed from Mount Raleigh, coasting 

 along the shoare, which lieth Southsouthwest, and East- 

 northeast. 



The 9 our men fell in dislike of their allowance, be- 

 cause it was too small as they thought : wherupon we 

 made a new proportion ; every messe being five to a 

 messe should have foure pound of bread a day, twelve 

 wine quarts of beere, six Newland fishes ; and the flesh 

 dayes a gill of pease more : so we restrained them from 

 their butter and cheese. 

 [III. 102.] The 1 1 we came to the most Southerly cape of this 

 land, which we named The Cape of Gods mercy, as being 

 the place of our first entrance for the discovery. The 

 weather being very foggy we coasted this North land ; at 

 length when it brake up, we perceived that we were shot 

 into a very faire entrance or passage, being in some places 

 twenty leagues broad, and in some thirty, altogether void 

 of any pester of ice, the weather very tolerable, and the 

 water of the very colour, nature and quality of the maine 

 ocean, which gave us the greater hope of our passage. 

 Having sailed Northwest sixty leagues in this entrance 



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