The Famous Voyage Of Sir Francis Drake Into The South Sea, And Therehence About The Whole Globe Of The Earth, Begun In The Year Of Our Lord 1577 Narrative By Francis Pretty
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But We Used Signs To Them Of Disliking
This, And Stayed Their Hands From Force, And Directed Them Upwards To
The Living God, Whom Only They Ought To Worship.
They shewed unto us
their wounds, and craved help of them at our hands; whereupon we gave
them lotions, plaisters, and ointments agreeing to the state of their
griefs, beseeching God to cure their diseases.
Every third day they
brought their sacrifices unto us, until they understood our meaning,
that we had no pleasure in them; yet they could not be long absent
from us, but daily frequented our company to the hour of our
departure, which departure seemed so grievous unto them, that their
joy was turned into sorrow. They entreated us, that being absent we
would remember them, and by stealth provided a sacrifice, which we
misliked.
Our necessary business being ended, our General with his company
travelled up into the country to their villages, where we found herds
of deer by a thousand in a company, being most large, and fat of body.
We found the whole country to be a warren of a strange kind of coneys;
their bodies in bigness as be the Barbary coneys, their heads as the
heads of ours, the feet of a want [mole], and the tail of a rat, being
of great length. Under her chin is on either side a bag, into the
which she gathereth her meat, when she hath filled her belly abroad.
The people eat their bodies, and make great account of their skins,
for their king's coat was made of them.
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