JOHN DAVIS ad. 



1586. 



ships, making signes that they knewe all those that the 



yeere before had bene with them. After I perceived their Gentle and 



joy and small feare of us, my selfe with the Merchants l ° vtn £ 



& others of the company went a shoare, bearing with 



me twentie knives : 1 had no sooner landed, but they 



lept out of their Canoas and came running to mee and 



the rest, and embraced us with many signes of heartie 



welcome : at this present there were eighteene of them, 



and to eche of them I gave a knife : they offred skinnes 



to me for reward, but I made signes that they were not 



solde, but given them of courtesie : and so dismissed 



them for that time, with signes that they should returne 



againe after certaine houres. 



The next day with all possible speede the pinnesse was dn 100 



landed upon an Isle there to be finished to serve our Canoas mth 

 £ , , . . 1 • 1 t 1 • divers corn- 



purpose tor the discovene, which Isle was so convenient mQ£ n t i es 



for that purpose, as that we were very wel able to defend 

 our selves against many enemies. During the time that 

 the pinnesse, was there setting up, the people came con- 

 tinually unto us sometime an hundred Canoas at a time, 

 sometime fourtie, fiftie, more and lesse, as occasion 

 served. They brought with them seale skinnes, stagge 

 skinnes, white hares, Seale fish, samon peale, smal cod, 

 dry caplin, with other fish, and birds such as the countrey 

 did yeeld. 



My selfe still desirous to have a further search of 

 this place, sent one of the shipboates to one part of the 

 lande, and my selfe went to another part to search for the 

 habitation of this people, with straight commandement [III. 104.] 

 that there should be no injurie offered to any of the 

 people, neither any gunne shot. 



The boates that went from me found the tents of the Images, trane 

 people made with seale skinnes set up upon timber, where- °V e i and $ ea k 

 in they found great store of dried Caplin, being a litle tu ^ s 

 fish no bigger then a pilchard : they found bags of Trane 

 oyle, many litle images cut in wood, Seale skinnes in 

 tan-tubs, with many other such trifles, whereof they 

 diminished nothing. 



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