The 30th Of August We Departed From This Harbour Towards England,
And The Wind Took Us Contrary, So That We Were Fain To Go To Another
Harbour The Same Day At Eleven Of The Clock.
And there came to us
thirty-nine of the people and brought us thirteen seal-skins, and
after we
Received these skins of them the master sent the carpenter
to change one of our boats which we had bought of them before; and
they would have taken the boat from him perforce, and when they saw
they could not take it from us they shot with their darts at us, and
struck one of our men with one of their darts, and John Filpe shot
one of them in the breast with an arrow. And they came to us again,
and four of our men went into the ship boat, and they shot with
their darts at our men; but our men took one of their people in his
boat, into the ship boat, and he hurt one of them with his knife,
but we killed three of them in their boats, two of them were hurt
with arrows in the breast, and he that was aboard our boat was shot
with an arrow, and hurt with a sword, and beaten with staves, whom
our men cast overboard; but the people caught him and carried him on
shore upon their boats, and the other two also, and so departed from
us. And three of them went on shore hard by us where they had their
dogs, and those three came away from their dogs, and presently one
of their dogs came swimming towards us hard aboard the ship,
whereupon our master caused the gunner to shoot off one of the great
pieces - towards the people, and so the dog turned back to land, and
within an hour after there came of the people hard aboard the ship,
but they would not come to us as they did before.
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