I Levelled At His Head, And The Stone Of My
Piece Gave No Fire; With That He Looked Up And
Laid down his head
again; then I shot, being charged with two bullets, and struck him
in the head; he,
Being but amazed, fell backwards, whereupon we ran
all upon him with boar spears and thrust him in the body, yet for
all that he gripped away our boar spears and went towards the water,
and as he was going down he came back again. Then our master shot
his boar spear and struck him in the head, and made him to take the
water, and swim into a cove fast by, where we killed him and brought
him aboard. The breadth of his fore foot from one side to the other
was fourteen inches over. They were very fat, so as we were
constrained to cast the fat away. We saw a raven upon Mount
Raleigh. We found withies, also, growing low like shrubs, and
flowers like primroses in the said place. The coast is very
mountainous, altogether without wood, grass, or earth, and is only
huge mountains of stone, but the bravest stone that ever we saw.
The air was very moderate in this country.
The 8th we departed from Mount Raleigh, coasting along the shore
which lieth south-south-west and east-north-east.
The 9th our men fell in dislike of their allowance because it was so
small as they thought. Whereupon we made a new proportion, every
mess, being five to a mess, should have four pound of bread a day,
twelve wine quarts of beer, six new land fishes, and the flesh days
a gin of pease more; so we restrained them from their butter and
cheese.
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