CANDISH'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION ad 



1587. 



cleane through the knee, the boy into the shoulder : either 



of them having very sore wounds. Their arrowes are 



made of litle canes, and their heads are of a flint stone, set 



into the cane very artificially : they seldome or never see 



any Christians : they are as v/ilde as ever was a bucke 



or any other wilde beast : for wee followed them, and 



they ranne from us as it had bene the wildest thing in 



the worlde. Wee tooke the measure of one of their feete, ^ ^^^^^ "/ 



and it was 18. inches long. Their use is when any o{ ^y^"^^- 



them dye, to bring him or them to the cliffes by the 



sea-side, and upon the toppe of them they burie them, 



and in their graves are buryed with them their bowes 



and arrowes, and all their jewels which they have in 



their life time, which are fine shelles which they finde 



by the sea side, which they cut and square after an arti- 



ficiall maner : and all is layd under their heads. The 



grave is made all with great stones of great length and 



bignesse, being set all along full of the dead mans dartes 



which he used when he was living. And they colour 



both their darts and their graves with a red colour which 



they use in colouring of themselves. 



The 28 of December we departed out of the Port of Their depar- 

 Desire, and went to an Hand which lieth 3. leagues to ^^^J^^^ ^^^^ 

 the Southward of it ; where we trimmed our saved 

 pengwins with salt for victual all that and the next 

 day, and departed along the coast Southwest and by 

 South. 



The 30. day we fell with a rocke which lieth about 

 5. leagues from the land, much like unto Ediestone, 

 which lieth off the sound of Plimouth, and we sounded, 

 and had 8. fathoms rockie ground, within a mile thereof: 

 the rocke bearing West Southwest. Wee went coasting 

 along South Southwest, and found great store of Seales 

 all along the coast. This rocke standeth in 48. degrees 

 J. to the Southward of the line. 



The 2. day of Januarie wee fell with a very faire white January 

 Cape, which standeth in 51. degrees, and had 7. fathoms '^^7- 

 water a league off the land. 



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