a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1555- 



sea of the West Indies. Our men salted of their fishes, 

 hoping to provide store thereof: but they would take 

 no salt, and must therfore be eaten forthwith as some 

 say. Howbeit other affirme, that if they be salted 

 immediatly after they be taken, they wil last uncor- 



A strange rupted ten or twelve dayes. But this is more strange, 



thing. that part of such flesh as they caried with them out of 



England, which putrified there, became sweete againe at 

 their returne to the clime of temperate regions. 



Their bread. They use also a strange making of bread, in this 

 maner. They grinde betweene two stones with their 

 handes as much corne as they thinke may suffice their 

 family, and when they have thus brought it to floure, 

 they put thereto a certaine quantitie of water, and 

 make thereof very thinne dough, which they sticke upon 

 some post of their houses, where it is baked by the 

 heate of the Sunne : so that when the master of the 

 house or any of his family will eate thereof, they take 

 it downe and eate it. 



Their wheat. They have very faire wheate, the eare whereof is two 

 handfuls in length, and as bigge as a great Bulrush, 

 and almost foure inches about where it is biggest. The 

 stemme or straw seemeth to be almost as bigge as the 

 litle finger of a mans hand, or litle lesse. The graines 

 of this wheate are as big as our peason, round also, 

 and very white, and somewhat shining, like pearles that 

 have lost their colour. Almost all the substance of 

 them turneth into floure, & maketh litle bran or none. 

 I told in one eare two hundred & threescore graines. 

 The eare is inclosed in three blades longer then it selfe, 

 & of two inches broad a piece. And by this fruitfulnes 



The Sunne. the Sunne seemeth partly to recompence such griefes and 

 molestations as they otherwise receive by the fervent 

 heate thereof. It is doubtlesse a worthy contemplation to 

 consider the contrary effects of the sunne : or rather the 

 contrary passions of such things as receive the influence 

 of his beames, either to their hurt or benefit. Their 



Their drinke. drinke is either water, or the juise that droppeth from 



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