Their faces
were painted with divers colours, and some of them had on their heads
the similitude of horns, every man his bow, which was an ell in length,
and a couple of arrows. They were very agile people and quick to
deliver, and seemed not to be ignorant in the feats of wars, as by their
order of ranging a few men might appear. These people would not of a
long time receive anything at our hands; yet at length our General being
ashore, and they dancing after their accustomed manner about him, and he
once turning his back towards them, one leaped suddenly to him, and took
his cap with his gold band off his head, and ran a little distance from
him, and shared it with his fellow, the cap to one and the band to the
other. Having despatched all our business in this place, we departed
and set sail. And immediately upon our setting forth we lost our canter,
which was absent three or four days; but when our General had her again,
he took out the necessaries, and so gave her over, near to the Cape
of Good Hope. The next day after, being the 20th of June, we harboured
ourselves again in a very good harborough, called by Magellan, Port
St. Julian, where we found a gibbet standing upon the main; which we
supposed to be the place where Magellan did execution upon some of his
disobedient and rebellious company.
The two and twentieth day our General went ashore to the main, and in
his company John Thomas, and Robert Winterhie, Oliver the master-gunner,
John Brewer, Thomas Hood, and Thomas Drake.
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