The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10: Asia, Part IIIHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10: Asia, Part III
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
The 5. day we went on shore to gather fruite, therewith to refresh our
sicke men, that were thirty to 33 in one shippe. In this bay lyeth a smal
Islande, wherern are many birdes called Pyncuius and sea Wolues that are
taken with mens handes: we went into the countrey and spake with the
inhabitants, who brought diuers fresh victuailes aborde our shippes, for a
knife or small peece of Iron, etc. giuing vs an Oxe, or a sheepe etc. The
sheepe in those Countries haue great tayles, and are fat and delicate.
Their ozen [sic--KTH] are indifferent good, hauing lumps of flesh vpon
their backes, and are as fat as any of our good brisket beefe: the
inhabitantes are of small stature, well ioynted and boned, they goe naked,
couering their members with Foxes and other beastes tayles: they seeme
cruell, yet with vs they vsed all kind of friendship, but are very beastly
and stinking, in such sort, that you may smell them in the wind at the
least of a fadome from you: They are apparelled with beastes skinnes made
fast about their neckes: some of them, being of the better sort, had their
mantles cut and raysed checkerwise, which is a great ornament with them:
They eate raw flesh, as it is new killed, and the entrailes of beastes
without washing or making cleane, gnawing it like dogs, vnder their feet
they tye peeces of beastes skinnes, in steed of shooes, that they trauel in
the hard wayes: We could not see their habitations, for wee saw no houses
they had, neither could wee vnderstande them, for they speake very
strangely, much like the children in our Countrey with their pipes, and
clocking like Turkey Cockes: At the first wee saw about thirtie of them,
with weapons like pikes, with broade heades of Iron, about their armes they
ware ringes of Elpen bones: There wee coulde finde neyther Oringes nor
Lemons, which we purposely sought for.
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