ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1586. 



the company and Masters being grieved, for our better 



securitie, desired me to dissolve this new friendship, and 



to leave the company of these theevish miscreants : 



whereupon there was a caliver shot among them, and 



immediatly upon the same a faulcon, which strange 



noice did sore amaze them, so that with speed they 



departed : notwithstanding their simplicitie is such, that 



within ten houres after they came againe to us to entreat 



peace ; which being promised, we againe fell into a great 



league. They brought us Seale skinnes, and sammon 



peale, but seeing iron, they could in no wise forbeare 



stealing : which when I perceived, it did but minister 



unto mee an occasion of laughter, to see their simplicitie, 



and I willed that in no case they should bee any more 



[III. 105.] hardly used, but that our owne company should be the 



more vigilant to keepe their things, supposing it to be 



very hard in so short time to make them know their 



Their rude evils. They eate all their meat raw, they live most upon 



diet - fish, they drinke salt water, and eate grasse and ice with 



delight : they are never out of the water, but live in the 



nature of fishes, save only when dead sleepe taketh them, 



and then under a warme rocke laying his boat upon the 



Their wea- la^d, hee lyeth downe to sleepe. Their weapons are all 



pons. darts, but some of them have bow and arrowes and slings. 



Strange nets. They make nets to take their fish of the finne of a whale : 



they do all their things very artificially : and it should 



These Is- seeme that these simple theevish Islanders have warre 



landers warre w j t ] 1 those of the maine, for many of them are sore 



wit epeope woun( }ed, which wounds thev received upon the maine 



of the maine. ' . J r , TTT . , 



land, as by signes they gave us to understand. We had 



Copper oare. among them copper oare, black copper, and red copper : 



they pronounce their language very hollow, and deepe in 



the throat : these words following we learned from them. 



Their Ian- Kesinyoh, Eate some. 

 guage. Madlycoyte, Musicke. 



Aginyoh, go fetch. 



Yliaoute, I meane no harme. 



Ponameg, A boat. 



' Paaotyck, An oare. 



Asanock, A dart. 

 I Sawygmeg, A knife. 



Uderah, A nose. 

 k Aoh, Iron. 



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