An account of several late voyages and discoveries
66 Sir John ·Narbrough's Poya~t they had no ref pett to any one, nor undcr any Q. bedicnce of any in this Company ; neithcr did they rnake :my íliew of Worfilipping any thing, cither Sun or Moon, but carne dircdly to us at our firfi: going on Land.. making a noifo, anci cvcry Man his Bow ready flrung,and t\.VÓ Arrow5 a Man in their Hands. Thcir Bows are about an Ell long, and their Arrows are near tightce11 Jnche5 long, and neatly madc of Wood, and he2dcd with l'lim fiones, neatly madc broad ¡\rrow-tafhion, well fa ílned to the A rrow ; ami the orhcr end is fcather, ed with two Feathers, .1nd tied on with the Gut of fome Beafi:, \\' hen it is green and moifr; the Bow-flring is fome twiíled Gut. Theíe People have vcry largc mungrcl Dogs, much Jike thcracc of Spanifh Dogs, and are of teveral colours: 1 di not fee any or:her domefl:ick Creature thcy have neither cmald I at rhis time foe their Boats; fo they lay :i.t the other end of thc. Iíland, ncxt th Main ; they waited on this Iílan<l for an opporc nity of fair Wcather, to go to thc ocher líJa for Penguins, therc bei6g grcat numbers of thof Birds of the fouthermoft of the tllree Ifl:.1nds, · m:my other white-breaficd Divi.:rs. Ollo/Jer 30. To Night I anchored in a fm Bay in eleven fathom Water, gravelly Ground half a mile off the Shore ; no Tide runs here to thwart up a Ship; the Water rifeth and fa perpendicular teA Fecr. This Bay hath two vulets of frefh Water in it, and good Tim trecs of eighteen Inches through, and near fo Fect long: the Wood is much like a Beech; he are wild Curraot- trecs 1 and man y fuch ~ikc Bulh
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