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
Our Generall certaine dayes searched this supposed continent with America,
and not finding the commodity to answere his expectation, after he had made
triall thereof he departed thence with two little barks, and men sufficient
to the East shore being the supposed continent of Asia, and left the ship
with most of the Gentlemen, souldier, and sailers, vntill such time as he
either thought good to send or come for them.
[Sidenote: Stones glister with sparkles like gold.] The stones of this
supposed continent with America be altogether sparkled, and glister in the
Sunne like gold: [Sidenote: A common prouerb.] so likewise doth the sand in
the bright water, yet they verifie the old Prouerb: All is not gold that
glistereth.
[Sidenote: The sea Vnicorne.] On this West shore we found a dead fish
floating, which had in his nose a horne streight and torquet,[54] of length
two yards lacking two ynches, being broken in the top, where we might
perceiue it hollow, into the which some of our sailers putting spiders they
presently died. I saw not the triall hereof, but it was reported vnto me of
a trueth: by the verture whereof we supposed it to be the sea Vnicorne.
After our Generall had found out good harborough for the ship and barks to
anker in, and also such store of supposed gold ore as he thought himselfe
satisfied withall, he returned to the Michael, whereof Master Yorke
aforesaid was Captaine, accompanied with our master and his Mate: who
coasting along the West shore not farre from whence the ship rode, they
perceived a faire harborough, and willing to sound the same, at the
entrance thereof they espied two tents of Seale skins, vnto which the
Captaine, our said Master, and other company resorted. [Sidenote: The
people fled at the sight of our men.] At the sight of our men the people
fled into the mountaines: neuerthelesse they went to their tents, where
leauing certaine trifles of ours, as glasses, bels, kniues, and such like
things they departed, not taking any thing of theirs, except one dogge.
They did in like maner leaue behind them a letter, pen, yncke, and paper,
whereby our men whom the Captaine lost the yere before, and in that peoples
custody, might (if any of them were aliue) be advertised of our presence
and being there.
[Sidenote: Master Philpot. Master Beast.] On the same day after
consultation had, all the Gentlemen, and others likewise that could be
spared from the ship, vnder the conduct and leading of Master Philpot,
(vnto whom in our Generall his absence, and his Lieutenant Master Beast, al
the rest were obedient) went a shore, determining to see, if by faire means
we could either allure them to familiarity, or otherwise take some of them,
and so attaine to some knowledge of those men whom our Generall lost the
yeere before.
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