The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compass of these 1600 yeeres . nd left themnothing to cover them, and many of them shot sothicke at our men in our boates, that they could scarseset hand to any Oare to rowe from the shore, yet (bythe helpe of God) they got from them with theirboates, although many of them were hurt with theirpoysoned arrowes: and the poison is uncurable, if thearrow enter within the skin and drawe blood, andexcept the poiso
The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compass of these 1600 yeeres . nd left themnothing to cover them, and many of them shot sothicke at our men in our boates, that they could scarseset hand to any Oare to rowe from the shore, yet (bythe helpe of God) they got from them with theirboates, although many of them were hurt with theirpoysoned arrowes: and the poison is uncurable, if thearrow enter within the skin and drawe blood, andexcept the poison bee presently suckt out, or the placewhere any man is hurt bee foorthwith cut away, heedieth within foure dayes, and within three houres afterthey bee hurt or pricked, wheresoever it be, althoughbut at the litle toe, yet it striketh up to the heart,and taketh away the stomacke, and causeth the partiemarveilously to vomite, being able to brooke neithermeat nor drinke. The Negros having used our men with such cruelty,whose names were Nicholas Day, William Bats and JohnTomson, led them away to a towne which was withina mile of the water side, or thereabout. The 20 day we sent to land a boate or skiffe wherein 272. GEORGE FENNER GEORGE FENNER 1567. were eight persons, and one of them was the foresaydJohn Tomson and our interpreter which was a French- A French in-man, (for there was one of the Negros which spake good ^prefer forFrench:) and they caried with them two harquebusses, ^two targets and a mantell. The cause of sending them was to learne what ransomethey demaunded for Bats and Day whom they when they came to the shore and told the Negroswhat they desired, they went and fetched them fromIamong the trees, and brought them loose among fortieor fiftie of them. And being come within a stones castof the sea side, William Bats brake from them, and ranas fast as he could into the sea towards the boat, andhe was not so soone in the water but hee fell downe,either
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