AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1582. 



They enter up The 1 5 after dinner, the Master, M. Walker, and I, 



to iearch the accompanied with 1 2 other travelled over a great deale 



coun fey. ^^ ground to finde some cattell, but found none : and 



comming home thorow the Oyster bay, I found of my 



company and of the Admirals together rosting of oysters : 



and going from them, Thomas Russell one of my com- 



panie sawe a strange fish named Utelif, which had fought 



with a crocodile, and being hurt came neere the shoare, 



where hee waded in, and by the taile drew him a lande, 



A sword-Jish and there slewe him, and sent the Generall the hinder 

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halfe of him : the head part I kept, in whose nose is 



a bone of two foot long like a sword with three and 



twentie pricks of a side, sharpe and strange : The bodie 



wee did eate, and it was like a Sharke. 



The 30 and last day of September the Francis cooke 

 came aboord about seven a clocke in the forenoone 

 from fishing with my net, and brought among other 

 A strange fish f^gh, a Sea-calfe (as wee called it) with haire and lympits, 

 ^ ^^' and barnacles upon him, being seven foote long, foure 



foote nine inches about : which to see I sent for the 

 Generall, and such as pleased to come see it out of 

 the Admiral!, who came and brought with him M. 

 Maddox, Captaine Hawkins, Captaine Parker, and most 

 part of his companie, who having viewed the beast, 

 which was ougly being alive, it being flayed, opened, 

 and dressed, prooved an excellent, faire, and good meate, 

 broyled, rosted, sodde and baked, and sufficed all our 

 companies for that day. 



The first day of October in the morning, wee tooke 

 in to make up our full complement of rice twentie 

 barrels for the twelve barrels of salt, delivered the 

 Portugall Lewis Henriques before. 



The 2 day about sixe a clocke in the morning, wee 

 set saile having little winde : the Captaine with the 

 Master, and other of their companie of the Portugals 

 came aboord me, complaining that the carsey by them 

 received for the foure Negros of the Generall, was not 

 sufficient for their payment, whereupon I gave them 



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