The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part IHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part I
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
arme, whereupon she cried out, and our Surgeon meaning to heale her childes
arme, applyed salues thereunto. [Sidenote: A prety kind of surgery which
nature teacheth.] But she not acquainted with such kind of surgery, plucked
those salues away, and by continuall licking with her owne tongue, not much
vnlike our dogs, healed vp the childes arme. And because the day was
welneere spent our men made haste vnto the rest of our company which on the
other side of the water remained at the tents, where they found by the
apparell, letter, and other English furniture, that they were the same
company which Captaine Yorke discouered the night before, hauing remoued
themselues from the place where he left them.
And now considering their sudden flying from our men, and their desperate
maner of fighting, we began to suspect that we had heard the last newes of
our men which the last yere were betrayed of these people. And considering
also their rauenous and bloody disposition in eating any kind of raw flesh
or carrion howsoeuer stinking, it is to bee thought that they had slaine
and deuoured our men: For the dublet which was found in their tents had
many holes therein being made with their arrowes and darts.
But now the night being at hand, our men with their captiues and such poore
stuffe as they found in their tents, returned towards their ships, when
being at sea, there arose a sudden flaw of winde, which was not a little
dangerous for their small boates: but as God would they came all safely
aboord. And with these good newes they returned (as before mentioned) into
the Countesse of Warwicks sound vnto vs. [Sidenote: The narrowest place of
the Straites is 9. leagues ouer.] And betweene Iackmans sound, from whence
they came, and the Countesse of Warwicks sound betweene land, and land,
being thought the narrowest place of the Straights were iudged nine leagues
ouer at the least: [Sidenote: The Queenes Cape.] and Iackmans sound being
vpon the Southerland, lyeth directly almost ouer against the Countesses
sound, as is reckoned scarce thirty leagues within the Straights from the
Queenes Cape, which is the entrance of the Streits of the Southerland. This
Cape being named Queene Elizabeths Cape, standeth in the latitude of 62
degrees and a halfe to the Northwards of New found land, and vpon the same
continent, for any thing that is yet knowen to the contrary. [Sidenote: The
maner of the meeting of the two captiues, and their entertainment.] Hauing
now got a woman captiue for the comfort of our man, we brought them both
together, and euery man with silence desired to behold the maner of their
meeting and entertainment, the which was more worth the beholding than can
be well expressed by writing. At their first encountring they beheld each
the other very wistly a good space, without speech or word vttered, with
great change of colour and countenance, as though it seemed the griefe and
disdeine of their captiuity had taken away the vse of their tongues and
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