The 30th Day Of July We Brought Our Ships Into The Countess Of
Warwick's Sound, And Moored Them, Namely These
Ships, the Admiral,
the Rear-Admiral, the Francis of Foy, the Bear, Armenel, the
Salomon, and the Busse of Bridgewater,
Which being done, our general
commanded us all to come ashore upon the Countess Island, where he
set his miners to work upon the mine, giving charge with expedition
to despatch with their lading.
Our general himself, accompanied with his gentleman, divers times
made roads into sundry parts of the country, as well to find new
mines as also to find out and see the people of the country. He
found out one mine, upon an island by Bear's Sound, and named it the
Countess of Sussex Island. One other was found in Winter's Fornace,
with divers others, to which the ships were sent sunderly to be
laden. In the same roads he met with divers of the people of the
country at sundry times, as once at a place called David's Sound,
who shot at our men, and very desperately gave them the onset, being
not above three or four in number, there being of our countrymen
above a dozen; but seeing themselves not able to prevail, they took
themselves to flight, whom our men pursued, but being not used to
such craggy cliffs, they soon lost the sight of them, and so in vain
returned.
We also saw them at Bear's Sound, both by sea and land, in great
companies; but they would at all times keep the water between them
and us.
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