A.D. 

 1586. 



7 'ong Sea/es 

 are very good 

 me ate. 



Foules breed- 

 ing in 



burrowes like 

 conies. 



We call these 

 foules Pen- 

 givins. 



They grave 

 and trimme 

 their ships. 



A man and a 

 boy hurt by 

 negligence. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



unto a mans hand : they breed and cast every moneth, 

 giving their yong milke, yet continually get they their 

 living in the sea, and live altogether upon fish : their yong 

 are marveilous good meate, and being boyled or rosted, 

 are hardly to be knowen from lambe or mutton. The 

 olde ones be of such bignesse and force, that it is as much 

 as 4. men are able to doe to kill one of them with great 

 cowle-staves : and hee must be beaten downe with striking 

 on the head of him : for his body is of that bignesse that 

 foure men could never kill him, but only on the head. 

 For being shotte through the body with an Harquebuze or 

 a Musket, yet he will goe his way into the sea, and never 

 care for it at the present. Also the fowles that were 

 there, were very good meate, and great store of them : 

 they have burrowes in the ground like conies, for they 

 cannot flie. They have nothing but downe upon their 

 pinions : they also fish and feede in the sea for their living, 

 and breede on shore. 



This harborough is a very good place to trimme ships 

 in, and to bring them on ground, and grave them in : for 

 there ebbeth and floweth much water : therefore wee 

 graved and trimmed all our ships there. 



The 24. of December being Christmas Even, a man and 

 a boy of the Rere-admirall went some fortie score from 

 our ships into a very faire greene valley at the foote of the 

 mountaines, where was a litle pitte or well which our men 

 had digged and made some 2. or 3. dayes before to get 

 fresh water : for there was none in all the Harborough ; 

 and this was but brackish : therefore this man and boy 

 came thither to wash their linnen: and beeing in washing at 

 the sayde Well, there were great store of Indians which 

 were come downe, and found the sayd man and boy 

 in washing. These Indians being divided on eche side 

 of the rockes, shotte at them with their arrowes and hurt 

 them both, but they fledde presently, beeing about fiftie or 

 threescore, though our Generall followed them but with 

 16. or 20. men. The mans name which was hurt was 

 John Garge, the boyes name was Lutch : the man was shot 



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