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all, but tnofe that were Tick, to a great Dinner of Geefe, 
Ducks, and other Birds, that they had killed. While they 
were merry at Dinner, the Captain exhorted them to have 
Patience and reprefented, that God Almighty never for- 
fakes thofe, who put their Truft in him. He alfo thanked 
them for their Fidelity, and the Services and Plardfhips 
they had run thro till now. This Speech proved very ef- 
fectual ; for the Seamen took Courage again, and rowed 
towards the Wefterly Part of the Bay, to go afhore, and 
fetch feme Victuals. As foon as they had doubled the 
Point, they faw I hree Canoes, with Savages on board them ; 
who, perceiving the Sloop, went immediately afhore, and 
ferambied up to the Tops of the Mountains, like Monkeys. 
The Dutch went on board the Canoes, and found only a few 
young Plungeons, wooden Grapples, wild Beads Skins, and 
other little Things of no Value, which they left in the 
Boats, i hen they went afhore, to fee whether the Sa- 
vages had hid any thing. They faw, on the Foot of the 
.Mountain, a Woman, with Two Children, who did what 
fhe could to run away ; but fhe was taken, with both her 
Children, and carried onboard, without Ihewing any Con- 
cern at all. She was of a middle Size, with a big Belly, 
of a reddifh Colour ; her Countenance was very fierce, and 
her Plead was fhaved, according to the Fafhion of that 
Country : But the Men have long Hair, and never cut it. 
For Ornament, fhe had Snails Shells hanging about her 
Neck, and a Sea-dog’s Skin about her Shoulders, tied un- 
der her Throat with Gut-firings. The reft of her Body 
was naked, her Breads hanging down like Cows Udders. 
Her Mouth was wide, her Legs crooked, and her Heels 
very long. She would eat no boiled or roafted Meat, and 
therefore they gave her feme of the Birds they caught in the 
•Canoes ; which fhe took, and, having plucked the long 
Feathers, die opened them with Muflel-fhells, cutting them 
firft behind the Right Wing, and then above the Stomach. 
After that fhe drew the Guts out, and, having laid the 
Fiver a little upon the Fire, eat it almoft raw. She cleaned 
the Gizzard, and eat it quite raw, as well as the reft of the 
Bird. Her Children ear after the fame manner ; one was 
a Girl about Four Years old, and the other a Boy Six 
Months old, who had the greateft Part of his Teeth, and 
could go alone. She looked very grave and ferious, while 
file was eating, tho’ the Seamen burft out with laughing. 
After her Meal, (lie fat down upon her Heels, like an Ape ; 
and, when fhe flept, fhe was all in a Heap, holding the 
young Infant between her Arms, with his Mouth to her 
Breaft. They kept her Two Days on board; but, the 
14th, the Weather being fair, the Captain fent her afhore 
again, and gave her a Gown, a Cap, and Glafs-beads for a 
Necklace and Bracelets. He alfo prefented her with a little 
Looking-glafs, a Knife, a Nail, an Awl, and other Toys 
-of finali Value, with which fhe was extremely pleafed. They 
alfo cloathed the Boy with a green Gown, and trimmed him 
finely with Glafs-beeds of all Colours ; but they carried the 
Girl to Amfierdam , where fhe died. The Mother was very 
much concerned at the keeping of her Girl : However, fhe 
went into the Sloop, without any Refiftance, or any Noife 
to have the. Girl again. They carried her afhore a League 
Weft ward off the Ship, to the Place fhe pointed at. There 
the Seamen found Fire, and fome Arms and Utenfils •, 
which made them believe, that the Savages ran away at the 
Sight of the Sloop. When they were come on board again, 
fo violent a Storm arofe on a fudden, that they were all 
frightened out of their Wits. The Surges of the Sea rofe 
higher than the Mails, and tolled the Ship with fuch 
Force, that it was a Miracle fhe was not overturned, and 
fplit to Pieces. However, by the Grace of God, fhe got 
out of that Bay, which they called the Unfortunate Bay . 
The next Day about Evening, they call Anchor in the 
Chanel ; but they were furprifed to fee the Anchor without 
a Buoy ; but the Weather was fo violent, that they durft 
not venture to put one to it. This Accident obliged the 
Seamen to fail before the Wind into the Bay de Cordes , 
fituated in the Middle of the Streight, and about Four- 
teen or Fifteen Leagues off the Place where they were, be- 
caufe they knew that Bay had a good Bottom for Anchor- 
age. With this View they coafted along Southward, that 
they might be feen by the Fidelity. When they got into 
the Mouth of the Bay, they fired a Gun, to give Notice to 
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the Captain, that they were come ; and they imagined he 
had alfo fired another Gun, as a Signal of his hearing them. 
Upon this, the Faith continued her Courfe, thinking the 
other Ship followed her. Aitho’ they carried only a Fore- 
fail, the Strength of the Wind drove them fo faft, that 
they were forced to fatten the Sloop to the Ship with Two 
great Halfers or Cables, to make their Courfe flower; but 
the rolling Waves broke the Two great Cables, and they 
never faw the Sloop again. 
20. This was a great Lois ; for the Seamen, having no 
Sloop, could not go afhore to get any Provifions. The 
next Day, December 16. they difeovered a Sloop to the 
Weft ward, making towards them. Some of them thought 
it was Captain de Cordes’ s Sloop ; others imagined it the 
Sloop of a Ship belonging to the Fleet, that was come into 
the Streight, or an Englifh Sloop ; but others gueffed bet- 
ter, thinking it was Oliver de Noorfs Sloop going to meet 
the Faith , which he had feen from behind a Point Three 
Leagues off that Place where he lay at Anchor. This un- 
expected Meeting was Matter of great Joy to the Seamen, 
who were in Hopes, that the General was well. The Cap- 
tain received with a great deal ofRefpeCt the Sloop’s Crew, 
who were all vigorous, and in perfeft Health, and who; 
amongft other things, told him, that they had catched 
above 2000 Birds in the great Ifiand of Penguins. Thefe 
Words made the other Seamens Teeth water, and every 
one wi ftied himfelf in that Ifiand. Many of them were bold 
enough to tell the Captain, that they muft go thither, where 
they might as well flay for the fair Wind; as in any other 
Place ; and that it was but One League out of the Way : 
But the Captain declared to them, that he Would not de- 
part from the General. The next Day, the General him- 
felf came to vifit the Captain ; and, the Day following, the 
whole Fleet joined him. The 2d, the Wind turning to the 
South- weft, all the Ships let Sail. Having failed Two or 
Three Hours, de Weert defired the General to lend him his 
Sloop, and Three or Four of his Men, to go before, and 
tell Captain de Cordes to get himfelf ready to fail with the 
Fleet. The General freely gave him his Sloop ; and de 
Weert , rowing along a fmall Ifiand, about which he had 
failed before, perceived Two Fires ; and, becaufe he never 
faw any Savages in the Ifiand, he thought fome of Captain 
de Cordes ’s Seamen were there : Therefore he went afhore ; 
but met with nobody, and went on board again, and joined 
the Fleet. His Ship was now become very foul, and could 
not follow the other Ships ; and, for that Reafon, when 
fhe was off the Bay of the Knights at Ebb-water, fhe was 
forced to fail back into the old Place. The next Day, fhe 
was expofed to the fame Accident within a Cannon-fhot of 
the other Ships, and that becaufe fhe was to pafs through 
a very narrow Chanel, into which ran Two Currents, one 
from the Eaft, and the other from the Weft of the Streight, 
which, meeting together, made a rifing Surge, that the 
Ship could not matter . December 24. they tried again to 
double the Point, behind which the Fleet lay at Anchor ; 
but they could not do it ; for, when the Tide came in, it 
drove them into the fame Place again. The Captain, feeing 
it impoftible to double the Point with that Wind, refolved 
to ftay till it changed, left he fhould fatigue his Men too 
much: But the General, tho’ the Wind was contrary, failed 
away, to look for a more convenient Road. Then de 
Weert loft Sight of the Fleet, tho’ he was not far off, be- 
caufe he anchored behind a rifing Ground. DeWeert , defpair- 
ing to join the Fleet again, and feeing he could not fubfift 
without a Sloop, or a little Boat, ordered, that the Pieces 
of a large old Sloop, which were in the Hold of the Ship, 
fhould be taken out, in order to build another that very 
Day, which was Chriflmas Day ; but, the next Day, the 
Wind being North, he put off the Wofk, in Hopes of 
getting into the little Bay, which was a League farther than 
the Bay of the Knights , and in which he might build the 
Sloop with more Conveniency and Safety ; but the Violence 
of the Wind forced him back again into the Bay of de Cordes , 
Five Leagues off, where, the 26th and 27th of the fame 
Month, they endured fo great a Storm, that the Seamen 
began to murmur again, particularly becaufe they had been 
a Fortnight without eating Muriels, and had had nothing 
but a fmall Proportion of Bifeuit and Oil to fubfift on. The 
Captain, feeing them fo infoknt, called them all together 
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