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1576. Savages, and limits them to five Men,with the Boat they were in. TheseAccounts, tho’ seemingly contradictoryare both true: For they had a Savageon Board on the nineteenth, whom theyset on Shoar again ; The twentieth theyhad another Savage on Board ; And itwas by setting him on Shoar, they losttheir Boat, with five Men: And, onthe twenty-second, they decoyed a Sa-vage on Board, whom they took andbrought to England. Having staid aDay or two, in Hopes to recover theirlost Men, they departed; But was pre-vented from proceeding farther, by theIce, tho' it were so early in the Year,and therefore failed Homewards, onthe six and twentieth of August. Thefirst of September, he had a Sight of Frife-land , and, the second of OSlober , anchor-ed at Harwich.
He took Possession of the Country, inthe Name and Right of the Queen ofEngland ; And, as a Token thereof,ordered every one of his Company tobring something away with them. Oneof them brought a Piece of black Stone,not unlike a Sea-Coal, which being ac-cidentally thrown into the Fire, by oneof the Adventurer’s Wives, when tak-Gold Ore en out again, glistered like Gold, and,found. being tried by the Refiners in London,was round to contain a large Proportionof that Metal.
1576. On the six and twentieth of May, ofForbistier s Year, Martin Forbijher sailed fromage! ^ Blackwall, and on the thirty-first, fromHolinsli. Harwich, with one Ship of about twoJ n 1 tro /' to Hundred Tuns, called the Aid, belong-vi Vol. in ing to the Qu,een* and two -Darks* theFol. Gabriel, Captain Fenton, and the Mi-
chael, Captain Tork, and in them onep. 32, 60. Hundred and forty Men, upon the sameCol-of Voy- Design of finding a Pasiage to Cathay JoyvT’ TVol. the North-West Seas, which he hadVol. I. attempted the foregoing Year. On
p. 499. Board the Aid, with the Commander in
Purchas, Chiefs who went by the Name of Gene-Vhrfarrive ra * os the whole Company, for her Ma-at Forbilh- jesty, were seven Officers, a Lieutenant,ex’jStreight. an Ensign, a Corporal of the Shot, aMaster, Mate, Pilot and Master-Gun-ner, with nine Gentlemen, about twen-ty Soldiers, and about fifty Sailors. TheGabriel had a Captain, Master, oneGentleman, six Soldiers, and ten Sai-lors ; And the Michael, a Captain, Ma-ster, one Gentleman, five Soldiers, andnine Mariners.
The seventh of June, he arrived atthe Ifles of Orkney, and, the fourth of
July at Frifeland. The sixteenth, he 1came to his Streight, which he had dis-covered the last Year, and much Iceappearing durst not venture in, with hisShip, but went with two Pinnaces, andtook one of the Savages, affioar, Thenineteenth of July, the Ice driving awaythe Ships, he run into the Streight, andanchored in a Bay, which he calledJackman’s Sound ; Here he landed, withmost of his Men, and having travelledsome Way, and found nothing to satis-fy his Desires, he coasted a little, in theBarks and Boats, both Fast and West ;And, tho’ he saw several People, couldtake none but a Woman and her Child.Purchas and Hackluyt fay, the Savage-Man they had taken before, seing, inthe Ship, the Picture of his Country-man, whom the English had carried ossthe preceeding Year, thought it alive,and began to talk with it, expressing anUneasiness, that it did not answer. Butstrange, adds he, were the Gesturesand Behaviour of this Man and Woman,when they were brought together ;Tho', when they were put into the sameCabin, they gave such apparent Signsof Bafhfulnels and Modesty, as mightbe a Shame to Christians. Hackluytadds, that, at the same Time, they tookthe Woman and Child, they took anold Woman too; But of so hideous aForm, that they stripped her to feewhether she had Cloven Feet, or anyother Mark to convince them she wasnot of human Kind.
Where they could have any Traf-fick with the Savages, the Manner ofthe latter was to lay down something oftheirs, and go their Way, waiting forthe English to lay down something inLieu of it; And, if they liked the Bar-gain, they came again and took it; o-therwise they took away their own, anddeparted. They made Signs, that theirCatchoe, or King, was a taller Personthan any of the English, and that he wascarried on Men’s Shoulders.The Englishcould no Way learn what became of thefive Men they lost the Year before, on-ly they found some of their Cloths,which made them think they were eat-en.
On the fourth of August, he, came tothe Place which they called Ann War-wick’s Sound and Isiand, in Honour to theCountess of Warwick. Here they usedall possible Means to bring the Nativesto trade, or give some Account of them-selves; But they were so wild, that