(Macpherson Collection) 



CAPT. WAITBORNE AT ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOLNDLAND, 1618 



De Bry relates how, wltih' Richard Waitboriie [probably Whit- 

 bourne of Exmouthl was at the harbour of St. John's, a sea- 

 monster or siren with hair of sky-blue, swam out, to their great 

 consternation, but seeing the crew, swam back to the /atirf 

 whence it came; and how later the same monster approached the 

 ship in which was William Hncobridge [ilaconbridge] and tried 

 to board it, but the sailors beat it off with clubs. Whereupon 

 the monster next attacked two other ships, the crews leaving 

 them and taking to land. 



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