Whereupon We Returned Towards Our Ships, And
Landing To Stop A Flood, We Found The Burial Of These Miscreants; We
Found Of Their Fish In Bags, Plaices, And Caplin Dried, Of Which We
Took Only One Bag And Departed.
The 9th of this month we came to
our ships, where we found the people desirous in their fashion of
friendship and barter:
Our mariners complained heavily against the
people, and said that my lenity and friendly using of them gave them
stomach to mischief, for "they have stolen an anchor from us. They
have cut our cable very dangerously, they have cut our boats from
our stern, and now, since your departure, with slings they spare us
not with stones of half a pound weight. And will you still endure
these injuries? It is a shame to bear them." I desired them to be
content, and said I doubted not but all should be well. The 10th of
this month I went to the shore, the people following me in their
canoes; I tolled them on shore, and used them with much courtesy,
and then departed aboard, they following me and my company. I gave
some of them bracelets, and caused seven or eight of them to come
aboard, which they did willingly; and some of them went into the top
of our ship, and thus courteously using them I let them depart. The
sun was no sooner down but they began to practise their devilish
nature, and with slings threw stones very fiercely into the
Moonlight and struck one of her men, the boatswain, that he
overthrew withal:
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