JOHN DAVIS ad. 



1586. 



The 1 1 . of this moneth there came five of them to 

 make a new truce : the master of the Admiral came to 

 me to shew me of their comming, and desired to have 

 them taken and kept as prisoners untill we had his 

 anker againe : but when he sawe that the chiefe ring- 

 leader and master of mischiefe was one of the five, he 

 then was vehement to execute his purpose, so it was 

 determined to take him : he came crying Iliaout, and 

 striking his brest offered a paire of gloves to sell, the 

 master offered him a knife for them : so two of them 

 came to us, the one was not touched, but the other 

 was soone captive among us : then we pointed to him 

 and his fellowes for our anker, which being had, we 

 made signes that he should be set at libertie : within 

 one houre after he came aboord the winde came faire, 

 whereupon we weyed and set saile, and so brought the Oneofthepeo- 

 fellow with us: one of his fellowes still following our P letake ^ich 

 ship close aboord, talked with him and made a kinde ^ ' 

 of lamentation, we still using him wel with Yliaout, 

 which was the common course of curtesie. At length 

 this fellow aboord us spake foure or five words unto 

 the other and clapped his two hands upon his face, 

 whereupon the other doing the like, departed as we 

 suppose with heavie chere. We judged the covering of 

 his face with his hands and bowing of his body downe, 

 signified his death. At length he became a pleasant com- 

 panion among us. I gave him a new sute of frize after 

 the English fashion, because 1 saw he could not indure 

 the colde, of which he was very joyfull, he trimmed up 

 his darts, and all his fishing tooles, and would make 

 okam, and set his hand to a ropes end upon occasion. 

 He lived with the dry Caplin that I tooke when I was 

 searching in the pinnis, and did eate dry Newland fish. 



All this while, God be thanked, our people were in 

 very good health, onely one young man excepted, who 

 dyed at sea the fourteenth of this moneth, and the 

 fifteenth, according to the order of the sea, with praise 

 given to God by service, was cast overboord. 



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