a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1586. 



arrowes : in this place at the harborough mouth we found 

 Store of cod. great store of cod. 



The first of September at tenne a clocke wee set saile, 



and coasted the shore with very faire weather. The 



thirde day being calme, at noone we strooke saile, and 



[III. 108.] let fall a cadge anker, to prove whether we could take 



any fish, being in latitude 54. degrees 30. minuts, in 



which place we found great abundance of cod, so that 



the hooke was no sooner overboord, but presently a fish 



was taken. It was the largest and the best fed fish that 



ever I sawe, and divers fisher men that were with me 



sayd that they never saw a more suavle or better skull 



of fish in their lives : yet had they seene great abundance. 



The fourth of September at five a clocke in the after- 



noone we ankered in a very good road among great store 



of Isles, the countrey low land, pleasant and very full 



of fayre woods. To the North of this place eight leagues, 



J perfect hope we nac [ a perfect hope of the passage, finding a mightie 



about z-^f & reat sea P ass i n g betweene two lands West. The South 



grees and an kmd to our judgement being nothing but Isles: we 



halfe. greatly desired to goe into this sea, but the winde was 



directly against us. We ankered in foure fathome fine 



sand. In this place is foule and fish mightie store. 



The sixt of September having a faire Northnorthwest 

 winde, having trimmed our Barke we purposed to depart, 

 and sent five of our sailers yong men a shore to an 

 Island, to fetch certaine fish which we purposed to weather, 

 and therefore left it al night covered upon the Isle : the 

 brutish people of this countrey lay secretly lurking in 

 the wood, and upon the sudden assaulted our men : 

 which when we perceived, we presently let slip our cables 

 upon the halse, and under our foresaile bare into the 

 shoare, and with all expedition discharged a double 

 musket upon them twise, at the noyse whereof they fled : 

 notwithstanding to our very great griefe, two of our men 

 Two of our were slaine with their arrowes, and two grievously 

 7a*& o wounded, of whom at this present we stand in very great 

 doubt, onely one escaped by swimming, with an arrow 



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