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there leave it ten or twelve houres, then they take it 

 up againe, and in the cats find the said esurgny or 

 cornibots. Of them they make beads, and use them 

 even as we doe gold and silver, accounting it the 

 preciousest thing in the world. They have this vertue 

 in them, they will stop or stanch bleeding at the nose, 

 for we proved it. These people are given to no other 

 exercise, but onely to husbandrie and fishing for their 

 sustenance : they have no care of any other wealth or 

 commoditie in this world, for they have no knowledge 

 of it, and never travell and go out of their country, as 

 those of Canada and Saguenay doe, albeit the Canad- 

 ians with eight or nine villages more alongst that river 

 be subject unto them. 



' ' So soone as we were come neare the towne, a great 

 number of the inhabitants thereof came to present 

 themselves before us, after their fashion, making very 

 much of us : we were by our guides brought into the 

 middest of the towne. They have in the middlemost 

 part of their towne a large square place, being from 

 side to side a good stone cast, whither we were 

 brought, and there with signes were commanded to 

 stay, and so we did : then suddenly all the women and 

 maidens of the towne gathered themselves together, 

 part of which had their armes full of young children, 

 and as many as could came to kiss our faces, our 

 armes, and what part of the bodie soever they could 

 touch, weeping for very joy that they saw us, shewing 

 us the best countenance that possibly they could, de- 

 siring us with their signes, that it would please us to 



