He makes hast and came there in time and
sends wildmen for me and the slids.
There we found the perfidiousnesse of
the Octanaks. Seeing us in Extremitie, would prescribe us laws. We promised
them whatever they asked. They came to fetch me.
For eight dayes I was so tormented I thought never to recover. I rested
neither day nor night; at last by means that God and my brother did use,
which was by rubbing my leggs with hott oyle of bears and keeping my thigh
and leggs well tyed, it came to its former strenght. After a while I came
to me selfe. There comes a great company of new wildmen to seeke a nation
in that land for a weighty buissinesse. They desired me to goe a long, so I
prepare myselfe to goe with them. I marched well 2 dayes; the 3rd day the
sore begins to breake out againe, in so much that I could goe no further.
Those left me, albeit I came for their sake. You will see the cruelties of
those beasts, and I may think that those that liveth on fish uses more
inhumanities then those that feed upon flesh; neverthelesse I proceeded
forwards the best I could, but knewed [not] where for the most part, the
sun being my onely guide.
There was some snow as yett on the ground, which was so hard in the
mornings that I could not percave any tracks.
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