A.D. 



.587, 



CapeFrozcard 

 hi 54 degrees. 



Mnskle Coz\ 



Elizabeth 

 Bay. 



[III. 807.] 

 The most 

 brutish 

 Savages that 

 ever zvere 

 seene. 



The Chanel of 

 Saint Jerome. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The 14. day we departed from this place, and .ran 

 South southwest, and from thence southwest unto cape 

 Froward 5. leagues West Southwest, which Cape is the 

 Southermost part of all the streights, and standeth in 

 the latitude of 54. degrees. From which cape we ran 

 West and by north 5. leagues, and put into a bay or 

 Cove on the south side, which we called Muskle-Cove, 

 because there were great store of them : we ridde therein 

 6. dayes, the wind being still Westerly. 



The 21. day of Januarie we departed from Muskle- 

 cove, and went Northwest and by West 10. leagues to 

 a very faire sandie Bay on the North side, which our 

 Generall called Elizabeth Baye, and as wee ridde there 

 that night, one of our men dyed which went in the 

 Hugh Gallant, whose name was Grey, a Carpenter by 

 his occupation, and was buryed there in that Baye. 



The 22. wee departed from Elizabeth Bay in the after- 

 noone, and went about 2. leagues from that place, where 

 there was a fresh water river, where our Generall went 

 up with the ship-boate about three myles, which river 

 hath very good and pleasant ground about it, and it is 

 lowe and champion soyle, and so we saw none other 

 ground els in all the Streights but that was craggie rocks 

 and monstrous high hilles and mountaines. In this river 

 are great store of Savages which wee sawe, and had con- 

 ference with them : They were men-eaters, and fedde 

 altogether upon rawe flesh, and other iilthie foode : which 

 people had preyed upon some of the Spaniardes before 

 spoken of. For they had gotten knives and peeces of 

 Rapiers to make dartes of. They used all the meanes 

 they could possibly to have allured us up farther into 

 the river, of purpose to have betrayed us, which being 

 espyed by our Generall, hee caused us to shoote at them 

 with our harquebuzes, whereby we killed many of them. 

 So wee sayled from this river to the Chanell of Saint 

 Jerome, which is 2 leagues off. 



From the river of Saint Jerome about three or foure 

 leagues, wee ranne West unto a Cape which is on the 



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