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so by the necke ] ' "Wherewith the other that lay not 

 farre from him lifted up his head to see who it was ; 

 and perceiving it to be a monstrous beare, cryed out 

 and sayed, ' Oh mate ! it is a beare ; ' and therewith 

 presently rose up and ran away. The beare at the first 

 falling upon the man bit his head in sunder, and suckt 

 out his blood ; wherewith the rest of the men that were 

 on the land, being about twenty in number, ranne 

 presently thither, either to save the man, or else to 

 drive the beare from the body j and having charged 

 their pieces, and bent their pikes, set upon her, that 

 still was devouring the man ; but perceiving them to 

 come towards her, fiercely and cruelly ranne at them 

 and got another of them out from the company, which 

 she tore in pieces, wherewith all the rest ran away. 

 "We, perceiving out of our ship and pinnasse that our 

 men ranne to the sea-side to save themselves, with all 

 speed entered into their boats and rowed as fast as we 

 could to relieve our men. Where, being on land, we be- 

 held the cruell spectacle of our two dead men that 

 had been so cruelly killed and torne in pieces by the 

 beare. We, seeing that, encouraged our men to goe 

 back again with us, and with pieces, curtel-axes, and 

 halfe-pikes, to set upon the beare ; but they would not 

 all agree thereunto, some of them saying ' Our men 

 are already dead, and we shall get the beare well 

 enough though we oppose ourselves into so open 

 danger. If we might save our fellowes' lives, then 

 we would make haste ; but now we need not 



