A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1587. 



companie and never saw her after. Wee were sayling 



from this haven of Aguada Segura In California unto 



the iles of Ladrones the rest of November, and all 



December, and so forth until the 3 of Januarie 1588, 



with a faire winde for the space 45 dayes : and we 



esteemed it to be between 17 and 18 hundred leagues. 



The 3 day of January by sixe of the clocke in the 



morning wee had sight of one of the islands of Ladrones 



The island of called the island of Guana, standing in 13 degrees f 



Guanaone of to^^rd the North, and sayling with a gentle gale before 



the Ladrones , • 1 i r ^^ ^ y - ^ ^r 



in I X decrees ^^^ wmde, by I or 2 or the clocke m the arternoone, 



andtwothirds. wee were come up within 2 leagues of the island, where 



Commodities we met with 60 or 70 sailes of canoas full of Savages, 



of the isles of ^j^q came off to sea unto us, and brought with them 



in their boates plantans, cocos, potato rootes, and fresh 



fish, which they had caught at sea, and helde them up 



unto us for to truck or exchange with us ; which when 



we perceived, we made fast little pieces of old iron 



upon small cords and fishing lines, and so vered the 



iron unto their canoas, and they caught hold of them 



and tooke off the iron, and in exchange of it they would 



make fast unto the same line either a potato roote, or 



a bundle of plantans, which we haled in : and thus our 



company exchanged with them until they had satisfied 



themselves with as much as did content them : yet we 



could not be rid of them. For afterward they were so 



thicke about the ship, that it stemmed & brake i or 2 



of their canoas : but the men saved themselves being in 



every canoa 4, 6, or 8 persons all naked & excellent 



The colour and swimmers and divers. They are of a tawny colour & 



stature of the marveilous fat, & bigger ordinarily of stature then the 



isles of La- i^ost part of our men in England, wearing their haire 



drones. marveilous long; yet some of them have it made up 



and tyed with a knot on the crowne, & some with 2 



[III. 818.] knots, much like unto their images which wee saw them 



Their images, ^^ve carvcd in wood, and standing in the head of their 



Artificial boates like unto the images of the devill. Their canoas 



canoas. were as artificially made as any that ever wee had seene : 



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