againe of our English men which the yere before were
taken.] They also beheld (to their greatest marueile)
a dublet of Canuas made after the English fashion,
a shirt, a girdle, three shoes for contrary feete,
and of vnequall bignesse, which they well coniectured
to be the apparell of our fiue poore countreymen, which
were intercepted the last yeere by these Countrey
people, about fiftie leagues from this place, further
within the Straights. [Sidenote: A good deuise
of Captaine Yorke.] Whereupon our men being in good
hope, that some of them might be here, and yet liuing:
the Captaine deuising for the best left his mind behind
him in writing, with pen, yncke, and paper also, whereby
our poore captiue countrymen, if it might come to
their hands, might know their friends minds, and of
their arriuall, and likewise returne their answere.
And so without taking any thing away in their tents,
leauing there also looking glasses, points, and other
of our toyes (the better to allure them by such friendly
meanes) departed aboord his Barker, with intent to
make haste to the Aide, to giue notice vnto the company
of all such things as he had there discouered:
and so meant to returne to these tents againe, hoping
that he might by force or policie intrappe or intice
the people to some friendly conference. Which
things when he had deliuered to the whole company
there, they determined forthwith to go in hand with
the matter. Hereupon Captaine Yorke with the
master of the Aide and his mate (who the night before
had bene at the tents, and came ouer from the other
side in the Michael with him) being accompanied with
the Gentlemen and souldiors to the number of thirty
or forty persons in two small rowing Pinnasses made
towards the place, where the night before they discovered
the tents of those people, and setting Charles Iackman,
being the Masters mate, ashore with a convenient number,
for that he could best guide them to the place, they
marched ouer land, meaning to compasse them on the
one side, whilest the Captaine with his boates might
entrap them on the other side. But landing at
last at the place where the night before they left
them, they found them with their tents remoued.
Notwithstanding, our men which marched vp into the
countrey, passing ouer two or three mountaines, by
chance espied certaine tents in a valley vnderneath
them neere vnto a creeke by the Sea side, which because
it was not the place where the guide had bene the
night before, they iudged them to be another company,
and be setting them about, determined to take them
if they could. [Sidenote: The Sauages haue boats
of sundry bignes.] But they having quickly descried
our companie, launched one great and another smal
boat, being about 16 or 18 persons, and very narrowly
escaping, put themselues to sea. [Sidenote: The
Englishmen pursue those people of that countrey.
The swift rowing of those people.] Whereupon our souldiers
discharged their Caliuers, and followed them, thinking
the noise therof being heard to our boats at sea, our


