I Asked Them Where Their Abiding Was, And They Tolde Mee That There Was A Companie Or Heard Of Them, To The Number Of 100.

Men, besides women and children, but a little from vs in the riuer Iekonga.

They tolde me that they had bene to seeke meate among the rockes, saying, If wee get no meate, wee eate none. I sawe them eate rocke weedes as hungerly, as a cowe doeth grasse when shee is hungrie. I sawe them also eate foules egges rawe, and the yong birdes also that were in the egges.

I obserued certaine wordes of their language, which I thought good to set downe for their vse, that hereafter shall haue occasion to continue this voyage.

COWGHTIE COTEAT, what call you this. PODDYTHECKE, come hither. AUANCHYTHOCKE, get the hence. ANNA, farewell. TEYRUE, good morrowe. IOMME LEMAUFES, I thanke you. PASSEUELLIE, a friend. OLMUELKE, a man. CAPTELLA, a woman. ALKE, a sonne. NEIT, a daughter, or yong wench. OVUIE, a head. CYELME, an eye. NENNA, a nose. NEALMA, a mouth. PANNEA, teeth. NEUGHTEMA, a tongue. SEAMAN, a beard. PEALLEE, an eare. TEAPPAT, the necke. VOAPT, the haire. KEAT, a hand. SOARME, fingers. IOWLKIE, a legge. PEELKIE, the thombe, or great toe. SARKE, wollen cloth. LEIN, linnen cloth. PAYTE, a shirt. TOL, fire. KEATSE, water. MURR, wood. VANNACE, a boate. ARICA, an oare. NURR, a roape. PEYUE, a day. HYR, a night. PEVUEZEA, the Sunne. MANNA, the Moone. LASTE, starres. COSAM VOLKA, whither goe you. OTTAPP, sleepe. TALLYE, that. KEIEDDE PIEUE, a weeke. ISCKIE, a yeere. KESSE, Sommer. TALUE, Winter. IOWKSAM, colde. PAROX, warme. ABRYE, raine. YOUGHANG, yce. KEATYKYE, a stone. SELLOWPE, siluer. SOLDA, golde. TENNAE, tinne. VESKUE, copper. ROWADT, yron. NEYBX, a knife. AXSHE, a hatchet. LEABEE, bread. IEAUEGOAT, meale. PENCKA, the winde. IOWTE, A platter. KEMNIE, a kettle. KEESTES, gloues. SAPEGE, shoes. CONDE, a wilde Deare. POATSA, the labouring Deare.

Their wordes of number are these as followeth.

OFTE, One. NOUMPTE, Two. COLME, Three. NELLYE, Four. VITTE, Five. COWTE, Six. KEYDEEM, Seven. KAFFTS, Eight OWGHCHTE, Nine. LOCKE, Ten. OSTRETUMBELOCKE, Eleven. COWGHTNUMBELOCKE, Twelve. COLMENONBELOCKE, Thirteen. NELLYNOMBELOCKE, Fourteen. VlTTIENOMBELOCKE, Fifteen. COWTENOMBELOCKE, Sixteen. KEYDEMNOMBELOCKE Seventeen. KAFTSNOMBELOCKE, Eighteen. OWGHTNOMBELOCKE, Nineteen. COFFTEYLOCKE, Twenty. COLMELOCKE, Thirty. NELLY LOCKE. Forty. VITTELOCKE, Fifty. COWTELOCKE, Sixty. KEYDEMLOCKE, Seventy. KAFFTSELOCKE, Eighty. OUGHCHETELOKE, Ninety. TEWET, One hundred.

Friday (25) in the morning we departed from Saint Iohns Island: to the Westwards thereof, a mile from the shoare, we sounded, and had 36. fadoms, and oazie sand.

Iuana Creos is from Cape gallant Westnorthwest, and halfe a point to the Northwards, and betweene them is 7. leagues. The point of the Island, which is Cape comfort, lyeth from Iuana Creos, Northwest and by North, and almost the 3. part of a point to the Westwards, and betweene them are 3. leagues.

The Eastermost of S. Georges Islands, or the 7. Islands, lyeth from Iuana Creos Northwest, and halfe a point to the Northwards, and betweene them are 14. leagues and a halfe. The vttermost of the 7.

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