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Wee flaicd her, cut her into pieces of a stone weight or there- 

 abouts, which served us for our dinner's. And upon this 

 Beare we fed some twenty dayes, for shee was very good 

 flesh and better than our Venison, This onely mischance 

 wee had with her, that upon the eating of her Liver our very 

 skinnes peeled off; for mine owne part, I being siclce before, 

 by eating of that Liver, though I lost my skinne, yet re- 

 cover'd I my health upon it. Shee being spent, either wee 

 must seeke some other mcatc, or else fall aboard with our 

 roast Venison in the Caske ; which we were very loath to 

 doe for feare of famishing, if so be that it should be thus 

 spent before the Fleete came out of England. Amidst these 

 our feares, it pleased God to send divers Beares unto our 

 Tent, some fortie at least as we accounted. Of which num- 

 ber we kill'd seven: That is to say, the second of March one ; 

 the fourth, another ; and the tenth a wonderfull great Beare, 

 sixe foote high at least. All which we flayed and roasted 

 upon woodden spits (having no better kitchen-furniture than 

 that, and a frying-pan we found in the Tent). They were 

 as good savory meate as any becfe could be. Having thus 

 gotten good store of such foode, wee kepte not our selves 

 now to such straight allowance as before ; but eate fre- 

 quently two or three meales a-day, which began to increase 

 strength and abilitie of body in us. 



By this, the cheerfull dayes so fast increased, that the several 

 sorts of Fowles, which had all the Winter-time avoyded 

 those quarters, began now againe to resort thither, unto their 

 Summer-abiding. The sixteenth of March, one of our two 

 Mastive Dogges went out of the Tent from us in the morn- 

 ing ; but from that day to this he never more returned to us, 

 nor could wee ever heare what was become of him. The 

 Fowles that I before spake of, constantly use every Spring 

 time to resort unto that Coast, being used to breede there 

 most abundantly. Their foode is a certaine kinde of small 

 fishes. Ycarely upon the abundant comming of these Fowles, 



