with stand the raine, or other weather: the entrance of them being not much
vnlike an Ouens mouth, whereto I thinke they resort for a time to fish,
hunt, and foule, and so leaue them vntil the next time they come thither
again.

[Sidenote: Their weapons of defence.] Their weapons are bowes, arrowes,
darts, and slings. Their bowes are of wood of a yard long, sinewed at the
back with strong sinews, not glued too, but fast girded and tyed on. Their
bow strings are likewise sinewes. Their arrowes are three pieces nocked
with bone, and ended with bone, with those two ends, and the wood in the
midst, they passe not in length halfe a yard or little more. They are
fethered with two fethers the penne end being cut away, and the fethers
layd vpon the arrow with the broad side to the wood; insomuch that they
seeme when they are tyed on, to haue foure fethers. [Sidenote: Three sorts
of heads to their arrowes.] They haue also three sorts of heads to those
arrowes: one sort of stone or yron, proportioned like to a heart: the
second sort of bone, much like vnto a stopt head, with a hooke on the same:
the third sort of bone likewise made sharpe at both sides, and sharpe
pointed. They are not made very fast but lightly tyed to, or else set in a
nocke, that vpon small occasion the arrowes leaue these heads behind them:
and they are of small force, except they be very neere when they shoote.

[Sidenote: two sorts of darts.] Their Darts are made of two sorts: the one
with many forkes of bones in the fore end and likewise in the midst: their
proportions are not much vnlike our toasting yrons, but longer: these they
cast out of an instrument of wood, very readily. The other sort is greater
then the first aforesayd, with a long bone made sharpe on both sides not
much vnlike a Rapier, which I take to bee their most hurtfull weapon.

[Sidenote: Two sortes of boates made of leather.] They haue two sorts of