Yee shall haue them many times take their Children & bury them in the snow all but their faces for a time, to make them the better to endure cold, and when they are not aboue 2. yeares old, they will take them and cast them into the Sea, like a little dogge or Cat, to learne them to swimme.
Their weapons are bowes and arrowes, I never saw more then two fowling peeces, one pistall, about foure Halfe-pikes, and three Curtlaces Cutlasses amongst them, so that we neede not to feare them much, if wee auoid their Treacherie.
Their houses are built in halfe an houres space being onely a few powles or boughes stucke in the ground and couered with the barkes of trees.
Their Language differs as English & Welch. On a time the Gouernour was at my house, and brought with him a Salvage, who liued not aboue 70. miles from the place which I haue made choise of, who talking with another Sauage, they were glad to vse broken English to expresse their mind each to other, not being able to vnderstand one another in their Language.
And to say something of the Countrey: I will not doe therein as some haue done, to my knowledge speak more then is true: I will not tell you that you may smell the corne fields before you see the Land, neither must men thinke that corne doth growe naturally (or on trees,) nor will the Deare come when they are called, or stand still and looke one a man, untill he shute him, not knowing a man from a beast, nor the fish leape into the kettle, nor on the drie Land, neither are they so plentifull, that you may dipp them up in baskets, nor take Codd in netts to make a voyage, which is no truer: then that the fowles will present themselues, to you with spitts through them.
But certainely there is fowle, Deare, and Fish enough for the taking if men be diligent, there be also Vines, Plume trees, Cherry trees, Strawberies, Gooseberies, and Raspes, Walnutts, chesnut, and small nuts, of each great plenty; there is also great store of parsley, and divers other holesome Earbes, both for profit and pleasure, with great store of Saxifrage, Cersa-perilla, and Anni-seeds.
And for the ground there is large & goodly Marsh to make meddow, higher land for pasture and corne.
There be these severall sorts of earth, which I haue seene, as, Clay, Sand, Grauill, yea and as blacke fatt earth, as ever I sawe in England in all my life.
There are likewise these helpes for ground, as Seasand, Oreworth or Wracke, Marle blew and white, and some men say there is Lime, but I must confesse I neuer saw any Lime-stone: but I haue tried the Shels of Fish, and I find them to be good Lime.
Now let any husbandman tell mee, whither there be any feare of hauing any kind of Corne, hauing these seuerall kinds of Earth with these helpes, the Climat being full as good if not better than England.