The diſcouerie of
with the good hap of her foꝛtunate name wee were deliuered, and with a pꝛoſperous wind followed our courſe Weſt 🙰 by Noꝛth. And in other 25. dayes wee made aboue 400. leagues moꝛe, where wee diſcouered a newe land, neuer be a foꝛe ſeene of any man either auncient oꝛ moderne, and at the firſt ſight it ſeemed ſomewhat lowe, but beeing within a quarter of a league of it, wee perceiued by the great ſiers that wee ſawe by the Sea coaſte that it was inhabited: and ſaw that the lande ſtretched to the Southwards: in ſeeking ſome conuenient harboꝛough whereby to come a lande, and have knowledge of the place, wee ſayled fiftie leagues in paine, and ſeeing the lande to runn ſtill to the Southwards wee reſolued to returne backe againe towardes the Noꝛth, where we found our ſelues troubled with the like difficulty: at length beeing in deſpaire to finde any poꝛt, wee caſte anker upon the coaſt, and ſent our Boate to ſhoꝛe, where we ſawe great ſtoꝛe of people which came to the Sea ſide, and ſeeing us to appꝛoche they fled away, and ſometimes would ſtande ſtill and looke backe, beholding us with great admiration: but afterwardes beeing animated and aſſured with ſignes that wee made them, ſome of them came harde to the Sea ſide ſeeming to reioyce very muche at the ſight of us, and marueiling greatly at our apparell, ſhape and whitenes, ſhewed us by ſundꝛy ſignes where wee might moſt commodiouſly come a land with our Boat, offering us alſo of their victuals to eate. Nowe I will bꝛiefly declare to your Maieſtie their life and manners, as farre as wee coulde haue notice thereof: Theſe people goe altogether naked except only that they couer their pꝛiuie partes with certaine ſkinnes of beaſtes like unto (illegible text), which they faſten unto a narrowe girdle made of graſſe berye artificially wꝛought, hanged about with tailes of divers other beaſtes, which rounde about their bodies hang dangling downe to their knees. Some of them weare garlandes of byꝛdes feathers. The people are of colour ruſſet, and not much unlike the Saracens, their hayꝛe blacke, thicke and
