The Voyages of the English Nation to America, Volume 3E. & G. Goldsmid, 1890 |
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Page 127 - ... from a wood of small Cedars. There is most excellent grasse within a quarter of a league hence, for our horses as well to feede them in pasture, as to mowe and make hay, whereof wee stoode in great neede, because our horses came hither so weake and feeble. The victuals which the people of this countrey haue, is Maiz, whereof they haue great store, and also small white Pease : and Venison, which by all likelyhood they feede vpon, (though they say no) for wee found many skinnes of Deere, of Hares,...
Page 122 - Whereupon the next day in the best order that I could I departed in so great want of victuall, that I thought that if wee should stay one day longer without foode, wee should all perish for hunger, especially the Indians, for among vs all we had not two bushels of corne : wherefore it behooued mee to pricke forward without delay. The Indians here and their made fires, and were answered againe afarre off as orderly as wee for our Hues could haue clone, to giue their fellowes vnderstanding, how wee...
Page 15 - Gouernour went a whole day along the lake seeking passage, and could finde none, nor any way that did passe to the other side. Comming againe at night to the towne hee found two peaceable Indians, which shewed him the passage, and which way hee was to goe. There they made of canes and of the timber of houses thatched wUh*ihelyrpii«.
Page 15 - Governour departed from Autiamque to seeke Nilco, which the Indians said was neere the Great River, with determination to come to the Sea, and procure some succour of Men and Horses : for he had now but three hundred Men of warre, and fortie Horses, and some of them lame, which did nothing but helpe to make up the number : and for want of Iron, they had gone above a yeere unshod : and because they were used to it in the plaine Countrie, it did them no great harme. John Ortiz died in...
Page 9 - Indians doe carrie it to other places to exchange it for skinnes and mantles. They make it along the river, which, when it ebbeth, leaveth it upon the upper part of the sand. And because they cannot make it, without much sand mingled with it, they throw it into certaine baskets, which they have for that purpose, broad at the mouth, and narrow at the bottom, and set it in the aire upon a barre, and throw water into it, and set a small vessell under it, wherein it falleth.
Page 17 - ... of his principal Indians, which accompanied him, and with words of great offers and courtesie hee gaue the Gouernour a present of many Mantles and Deeres skinnes. The Gouernour gaue him some other things in recompense, and honoured him much. Hee asked him what townes there were downe the Riuer? Hee answered that he knew none other but his owne: and on the other side of the Riuer a prouince of a Cacique called Quigalta. So hee tooke his leaue of the Gouernour and went to his owne towne. Within...
Page 270 - Holland ships, which our admirall doubted would impeach his going in ; and therefore he gaue order to the men of these fiue small ships, which were not aboue 60 tunnes a piece, if the Hollanders did offer any resistance, to run aboord of them, and to set their owne ships on fire, and scape in their boats, which they had for the same purpose, that by this meanes they might not impeach our entrance.
Page 13 - Governour lodged in the best part of the towne, and commanded presently to make a fense of timber round about the campe, distant from the houses, that the Indians might not hurt them without by fire. And measuring the ground by pases, hee appointed...
Page 251 - Whitehall: at the sight of whom the King and all the nobility did not a little marvel, and not without cause: for in his cheeks were holes made according to their savage manner, and therein small bones were planted, standing an inch out from the said holes, which in his own country was reputed for a great bravery.
Page 121 - Saint lohns eue, and to refresh our former trauailes, the first dayes we founde no grasse, but worser way of mountaines and badde passages, then wee had passed alreadie : and the horses being tired, were greatly molested therewith : so that in this last desert wee lost more horses then wee had lost before : and some of my Indians which were our friendes dyed, and one Spanyard whose name was Spinosa; and two Negroes, which dyed with eating ceriaine herbes for lacke 5 of victuals.