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
[Sidenote: The 6 fishermen of Frisland onely saved, by shewing the maner to
take fish.] But that fisher with his fellowes shewing them the maner of
taking fish with nets, saued their liues: and would goe euery day a fishing
to the sea and in fresh riuers, and take great abundance of fish and giue
it to the chiefe men of the countrey, whereby he gate himselfe so great
fauour, that he was very well beloued and honoured of euery one.
The fame of this man being spread abroad in the countrey, there was a Lord
there by, that was very desirous to haue him with him, and to see how he
vsed his miraculous arte of catching fish, in so much that he made warre
with the other Lord with whom he was before, and in the end preuailing, for
that he was more mightie and a better warriour, the fisherman was sent vnto
him with the rest of his company. [Sidenote: In the space of 13 yeeres he
serued 25 lords of Drogio.] And for the space of thirteene yeres that he
dwelt in those parts, he saith, that he was sent in this order to more than
25 Lords, for they had continuall war amongst themselues, this Lord with
that Lord, and he with another, onely to haue him to dwell with them: so
that wandring vp and downe the countrey without any certaine abode in one
place, he knew almost all those parts. He saith, that it is a very great
countrey and as it were a new world: the people are very rude and voide of
all goodnesse, they go all naked so that they are miserably vexed with
colde, neither haue they the wit to couer their bodyes with beasts skins
which they take in hunting, they haue no kinde of mettal, they liue by
hunting, they carry certaine lances of wood made sharpe at the point, they
haue bowes, the strings whereof are made of beasts skins: they are very
fierce people, they make cruell warres one with another, and eate one
another, they haue gouernours and certaine lawes very diuers among
themselues. But the farther to the Southwestwards, the more ciuilitie there
is, the ayre being somewhat temperate, so that there they haue cities and
temples to idols, wherein they sacrifice men and afterwards eate them, they
haue there some knowledge and vse of gold and siluer.
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