A.U. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1578. 



themselves in array very orderly casting their companie 

 into the forme of a ring, every man having his bow and 

 arrowes : who (when they had pight a stafFe on the 

 ground, with certeine glasses, beads, and other trifles) 

 returned backe. Then the countrey people came and 

 tooke them and afterward approched neerer to our 

 men, shewing themselves very pleasant, insomuch that 

 M. Winter daunced with them. They were exceed- 

 ingly delighted with the sound of the trumpet, and 

 vialles. They be of a meane stature, wel limmed, and 

 of a duskish, tawnie, or browne colour. Some of them 

 having their faces spotted with divers colours, as red, 

 white, and blacke. Their apparel is a certeine skinne 

 (wherein they wrap themselves) not reaching so low as 

 to cover their privy members, all the rest of their bodies 

 be naked, saving that they weare certaine roules upon 

 their heads, whose ends hang over their shoulders. 

 Every one beareth his bow, being an ell in length, and 

 arrowes made of reeds, having heads, framed very 

 strangely & cunningly of a flint stone. They be much 

 given to mirth and jollity, and are very sly, and ready 

 to steale any thing that comes within their reach : for 

 one of them snatched our Generals cap from his head 

 (as he stouped) being of skarlet with a golden band : 

 yet he would sufl^er no man to hurt any of them. They 

 eate rawe flesh, for we found scales bones, the raw flesh 

 whereof they had gnawen with their teeth like dogs. 

 In this bay we watered, and victualed with scales : for 

 there is such plentie that we slew above 200 in the 

 space of one houre upon a litle island. 



The 3 of June we departed from thence, and being 

 at sea we were put backe againe to Cape Hope, where 

 we discharged our Canter and let her float in the sea. 

 Afterward wee ran to the 50 degree of the South pole, 

 where wee met with the winde Southerly, and so turned 

 backe againe to the Northward. And as we ran along 

 the shore, we met with our Prize the 19 of June, which 

 we lost the 13 of May, The day following we found 



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