There is plentie ynough of Poultrey, store of egges, fish, and foule.

For their bread they haue Oaten Cakes, and their drinke is Ewes milke, and
in some partes Ale.

Their houses are but poore without and sluttish ynough within, and the
people in nature thereunto agreeable.

For their fire they burne heath and turffe, the Countrey in most parts
being voide of wood.

They haue great want of Leather, and desire our old Shoes, apparell, and
old ropes (before money) for their victuals, and yet are they not ignorant
of the value of our coine. [Sidenote: Kyrway the chiefe towne of Orkney.]
The chiefe towne is called Kyrway.[65]

[Sidenote: S. Magnus sound why so called.] In this Island hath bene
sometime an Abbey or a religious house called Saint Magnus, being on the
West side of the Ile, whereof this sound beareth name, through which we
passed. Their Gouernour chiefe Lord is called the Lord Robert Steward, who
at our being there, as we understood, was in durance at Edenburgh, by the
Regents commandement of Scotland.

After we had prouided vs here of matter sufficient for our voyage the eight
of Iune wee set sayle againe, and passing through Saint Magnus sound hauing
a merrie winde by night, came cleare and lost sight of all the land, and
keeping our course West Northwest by the space of two dayes, the winde
shifted vpon vs so that we lay in trauerse on the Seas, with contrary
windes, making good (as neere as we could) our course to the westward, and
sometime to the Northward, as the winde shifted. And hereabout we met with