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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Richard Hakluyt
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Saylers supposed to be eyther a deuill, or a witch, had her buskins plucked
off, to see if she were clouen footed, and for her ougly hew and deformity
we let her go: the yong woman and the child we brought away. We named the
place where they were slaine, Bloodie point: and the Bay or Harborough,
Yorks sound, after the name of one of the Captaines of the two Barks.

[Sidenote: Faire meanes not able to allure them to familiarity.] Having
this knowledge both of their fiercenesse and cruelty, and perceiuing that
faire meanes as yet is not able to allure them to familiarity, we disposed
our selues, contrary to our inclination, something to be cruel, returned to
their tents and made a spoyle of the same: where we found an old shirt, a
doublet, a girdle, and also shoes of our men, whom we lost the yeere
before: on nothing else vnto them belonging could we set our eyes.

[Sidenote: Boates of skinnes.] Their riches are not gold, siluer or
precious Drapery, but their tents and boates, made of the skins of red
Deare and Seale skins; also dogges like vnto woolues, but for the most part
black, with other trifles, more to be wondred at for their strangenesse,
then for any other commoditie needefull for our vse.

[Sidenote: Our departure from the West shoare.] Thus returning to our ship
the 3. August, we departed from the West shore supposed firme with America,
after we had ankered there 13. dayes: and so the 4. thereof we came to our
Generall on the East shore and ankered in a faire Harborough name Anne
Warwickes sound, vnto which is annexed an Island both named after the
Countesse of Warwicke, Anne Warwickes sound and Isle.

In this Isle our Generall thought good for this voyage, to fraight both the
ship and barkes, with such stone or supposed gold minerall, as he iudged to
counteruaile the charges of his first, and this his second nauigation to
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