. Young folks library . r the banke or hill whereon we stoode, we beheldethe vallyes replenished with goodly Cedar trees, andhauing discharged our harquebuz-shot, such a flocke ofCranes (the most pat [part] white) arose vnder vs,with such a cry redoubled by many ecchoes, as if anarmie of men had showted all together. This Island had many goodly woodes full of Deere,Conies, Hares, and Fowle, euen in the middest ofSummer in incredible abundance. The woodes are notsuch as you finde in Bohemia, Moscouia, or Hercynia,barren and fruitles, but the highest and reddest Cedarsin the world, farre betteri
. Young folks library . r the banke or hill whereon we stoode, we beheldethe vallyes replenished with goodly Cedar trees, andhauing discharged our harquebuz-shot, such a flocke ofCranes (the most pat [part] white) arose vnder vs,with such a cry redoubled by many ecchoes, as if anarmie of men had showted all together. This Island had many goodly woodes full of Deere,Conies, Hares, and Fowle, euen in the middest ofSummer in incredible abundance. The woodes are notsuch as you finde in Bohemia, Moscouia, or Hercynia,barren and fruitles, but the highest and reddest Cedarsin the world, farre bettering the Ceders of the Azores,of the Indies, or Lybanus, Pynes, Cypres, Sassaphras,the Lentisk, or the tree that beareth the Masticke, the tree that% beareth^ the rineof blackeSinamon,of whichMasterWinterbroughtfrom the streights of Magellan, and many other of excellentsmell and qualitie. We remained by the side of thisIsland two whole dayes before we saw any people ofthe Countrey : the third day we espied one small boate. First Voyage to Roanoake 199 rowing towardes vs, hauing in it three persons: thisboat came to the Island side, foure harquebuz-shotfrom our shippes, and there two of the people remain-ing, the third came along the shoreside towards vs, andwee being then all within boord, he walked vp anddowne vpon the point of the land next vnto vs : thenthe Master and the Pilot of the Admirall, Simon Fer-dinando, and the Captaine PhiHp Amadas, my selfe,and others rowed to the land, whose comming thisfellow attended, neuer making any shew of feare ordoubt. And after he had spoken of many things notvnderstood by vs, we brought him with his owne goodliking, aboord the ships, and gaue him a shirt, a hat,& some other things, and made him taste of our wine,and our meat, which he hked very wel: and after hau-ing viewed both barks, he departed, and went to hisown boate again, which hee had left in a little Coue orCreeke adioyning : assoone [as soon] as hee was twobow shoot into the wa
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