JOHN WINTER ad. 



1578. 



on land, where they sawe two naked men, saving that 



they had a certaine skinne wrapt about their shoulders 



and rowles upon their heades. To whom our General 



shewed a white cloth, in signe of friendship, who with [HI. 751] 



certaine gestures of their bodies and handes, shewed 



the like to him againe, speaking likewise and making a 



noyse, which our men could not understand, but they 



would in no case come neere our men. Our Generall 



went the next day to the same place againe : but hee 



had no sight of the foresaid men or any other. How- 



beit hee found certaine foules, as Ostriches, and other Ostriches and 



sea foules, which the sayd men had newly killed, and ^^^P^^^^- 



laid them on an heape together, as though they had 



done that for our men of purpose. There was also a 



certaine bagge with litle stones of divers colours, which 



together with the victuals our General brought aboord, 



and then weighed, and came to sea the 15 of the sayd 



moneth : where all the rest of the fleet mette with him, 



save the Prize, and the fly-boat. The 16 day wee ran 



into a bay to the Southwardes of Cape Hope, where 



we roade al that night. The next morning our Generall 



weighed, & ran without the cape to the Northwardes, 



& sent the Elizabeth towards the South to looke for 



the Prize : leaving the Marigold and the Canter to 



search if in the bay they could finde any fit harbor 



for our ships. The same day being the 14 of May, 



our General met with the fly-boat (which lost us the 



27 of April) and brought her into saide bay. The 18 



in the morning we had word from the ships, that they 



had found a safe harbour and we weighed and ran in, 



the same day being Whitsunday. The Elizabeth weighed 



& put forth again to sea, the 20 day, to looke for the 



Prize, and not finding her came in the next day. In 



the meane time our General discharged the fly-boat, 



and ran her upon the maine, where we broke her up 



for fire-wood. In the meane while there came about T'h^ descrip- 



30 of the countrey people downe to the sea side : and ^1°^ ofcertame 



1- .1 -'. /. ^ r , Savages. 



when they were withm 100 pases or our men, they set 



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