168 Eliz. Naval Expfditlons, &c. os the English 7 Book ll'
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Nature andConfiituiionof the Sa-vages.
Their Appa-rel.
Their Boatsand Ships.
No 'venomous
Creature
here.
Hackluyt,P. II.
WilliamTowrfon’jthird Voyageto Guinea.
But were soon dispersed by their greatGuns. 1
These Savages are very treacherousand barbarous, not to be mollified byfair Words or Presents. They arestrong and well set, of an Olive-Colour;their Cloths being made of the Skins ofSea-Calves, sewed together with theSinews of Beasts. The Women’s Ap-parel is not different from that of theMen, for they wear Breeches, withmany Pockets in them, in which theycarry their Knives, Needles, Yarn andLooking-glasses, which they either getfrom Strangers, or else are cast ashoarby the Sea. Their Faces are paintedwith Blew, and some let their Hairgrow very long, hanging down overtheir Shoulders untwisted. Their Shirtsare made of Fish-Guts sewed togetherwith Sinews, their Garments loose,fastened about the Middle with a Gir-dle ; they are naturally very nasty, andfreely expose their Privy Members. Alltheir Riches consist in their Slings,Bows, Arrows and Boats. Their Bowsare very stender, and their Arrows thin,tipped at the End with a pointed Boneor Horn. They manage them withgreat Dexterity, and hit the Fishes asthey are swimming in the Water. TheirBoats are covered all over with the Skinsof Sea-Calves, and fitted only for onesingle Person. Their larger Vessels aremade of Wood, covered with theSkins of Whales, and are big enoughto contain twenty Men at a Time. TheirSails are made of the fame Materialswith their Shirts, and notwithstandingthere is not the least Iron-work aboutthese Boats, they are so strong, that theSavages venture with them very deep atSea.
N o venemous Creature is to be foundhere, unless they be Spiders, and theGnats are very busy in the SummerTime. They have no frelh Springs,but this Defect is supplied by the melt-ed Snow. They have Dogs of a pro-digious Bigness, which they use beforetheir Sleds instead of Horses.
The thirtieth Day of January , ofthis Year, Mr. William Towrson , ofwhom Mention is made in the formerBook, set Sail from Plymouth , with threeShips, the Minion, Admiral, the Christo-pher Vice-Admiral, the Tyger, and aPinnace called the Unicom ; Their Voy-age being designed for the Coast of Gui-nea. The next Day, they met with two
Hulks of Dantzick, and pillaged them i$ 77 ' jof most of the French Goods they found , Takes ef-on Board, (the Englijh having then War^^^Awith France ) and then suffered them to Hulks.depart. The fourteenth of February,being at the Canaries, the Spanijh West-India ,.Fleet of nineteen Ships, came in .j
and anchored there. They had a shortDispute with them concerning the Flag; concerningBut, xheSpaniarEs desisting, it was made the Flapup, without coming to Blows. Thetwentieth, theyrnade the Coast of Barba-ry. The Remainder of this, and thewhole.next Month, they traded alongthe Coast.
The first of April, they got Sight of FjiThfsU /^five Sail of Portuguese Ships, with whom y.f e p 0 rt°'.they had a fmartEngagement, till Night guese Shfseparated them, and they saw them nomore. The fifth, they fell in with threeFrench Ships at Anchor; But, when theycame near them, they weighed, andwould have escaped. They soon cameup with one, which they boarded and^^fi^took, and found in her, besides other French^Goods, fifty Pound-weight and fiveOunces of Gold. They pursued the o-ther two, but could not come up withthem. This Month, and the Month ofMay, they likewise continued trading.
The seventh of June, they saw fivePortuguese Ships at Anchor, under aCastle, but dared not attack them, forFear of being called to an Account forit at their Return. The four and twen-tieth, having manned their Boat andPinnace well, they went to the Town Burn $of Sharnma, which they burnt and p[\-pillage 5 ilaged. The five and twentieth, they putto Sea,in Order to return to England, and Siiainarrived, the twentieth of Odlober , at the Fe tur^ fl>Isle of Wight, after having touched at Engl ;UlJ 'the Istand of St. Thomas, the Cape Ferd-Iflands, and some other Places.
In the Year, 1578. Captain Martin por&jLForbijhcr undertook his thirdVoyage, to thirdsattempt the Discovery of a North-West t0 .
Pasiage. The Noise of Gold pretendedto be found, and the Hopes of discover- VI f °'ing this new Passage, encouraged Peo-pie to prosecute thisVoyage; And fifteen vol- d 1 ' ^Sail of Ships, well manned and furnished zp, G' s ,with all Necessaries, were provided for C p.it. They had on Board a wooden Fort,ready framed, to be set up in the Gol-den Country discovered, and a HundredMen were to be left there.
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