tearing their flesh from their faces with their nails, whereof issued
abundance of blood. But we used signs to them of disliking this, and
stayed their hands from force, and directed them upwards to the living
God, whom only they ought to worship. They shewed unto us their wounds,
and craved help of them at our hands; whereupon we gave them lotions,
plaisters, and ointments agreeing to the state of their griefs,
beseeching God to cure their diseases. Every third day they brought
their sacrifices unto us, until they understood our meaning, that we
had no pleasure in them; yet they could not be long absent from us,
but daily frequented our company to the hour of our departure, which
departure seemed so grievous unto them, that their joy was turned into
sorrow. They entreated us, that being absent we would remember them, and
by stealth provided a sacrifice, which we misliked.

Our necessary business being ended, our General with his company
travelled up into the country to their villages, where we found herds of
deer by a thousand in a company, being most large, and fat of body.
We found the whole country to be a warren of a strange kind of coneys;
their bodies in bigness as be the Barbary coneys, their heads as the
heads of ours, the feet of a want [mole], and the tail of a rat, being
of great length. Under her chin is on either side a bag, into the which
she gathereth her meat, when she hath filled her belly abroad. The
people eat their bodies, and make great account of their skins, for
their king's coat was made of them. Our General called this country Nova
Albion, and that for two causes; the one in respect of the white banks
and cliffs, which lie towards the sea, and the other, because it might
have some affinity with our country in name, which sometime was so
called. There is no part of earth here to be taken up, wherein there is
not some probable show of gold or silver.