WILLIAM TOWERSON ad. 



1556. 



He was clothed from the loines downe with a cloth 

 of that Countrey making, wrapped about him, and made 

 fast about his loynes with a girdle, and his cap of a 

 certaine cloth of the Countrey also, and bare legged, 

 and bare footed, and all bare above the loynes, except 

 his head. 



His servants, some of them had cloth about their 

 loines, and some nothing but a cloth betwixt their legges, 

 and made fast before, and behinde to their girdles, and 

 cappes of their owne making, some like a basket, and 

 some like a great wide purse of beasts skinnes. 



All their cloth, cordes, girdles, fishing lines, and all 

 such like things which they have, they make of the bark 

 of certaine trees, and thereof they can worke things 

 very pretily, and yron worke they can make very fine, 

 of all such things as they doe occupy, as darts, fishhookes, Their 

 hooking yrons, yron heads, and great daggers, some of wea P ons - 

 them as long as a woodknife, which be on both sides 

 exceeding sharpe, and bended after the maner of Turkie 

 blades, and the most part of them have hanging at their 

 left side one of those great daggers. 



Their targets bee made of such pils as their cloth is 

 made of, and very closely wrought, and they bee in 

 forme foure square, and very great, and somewhat longer 

 then they bee broad, so that kneeling downe, they make 

 their targets to cover their whole body. Their bowes be 

 short, and of a pretie strength, as much as a man is able 

 to draw with one of his fingers, and the string is of the 

 barke of a tree, made flat, and about a quarter of an inch 

 broad : as for their arrowes, I have not as yet seene any 

 of them, for they had wrapped them up close, and 

 because I was busie I could not stand about it, to have 

 them open them. Their golde also they worke very 

 well. 



When the Captaine was set, I sent him two elles of [II. ii. 31.] 

 cloth, and two basons, and gave them unto him, and hee 

 sent againe for a waight of the same measure, and I sent 

 him a weight of two Angels, which he would not take, 



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