palles, and the houses were placed about two foote aboue the ground, vpon foure or fiue palles or stakes of wood, and all the vpper partes of reede and strawe. [Sidenote:  Why their houses stand so high aboue the earth.] The cause why their houses are made so high from the ground is to auoide the danger of venemous beastes that are there in great aboundance, as Serpents, Snakes, Camelions, and other kindes of beastes.  The people are very blacke, but their hayre and beardes are not so much curled as the right Mores, nor their noses nor lippes so great nor flat.  They are subtill and strong people, much addicted to drinking, for they will bee as drunke as Swine, with a kind of drinke made of Honie and Ryce. [Sidenote:  The maner of the wilde men in that countrey.] They go naked, onely that about their midles they weare a cloth made of the barke of a tree, drawne in small threedes:  they make and use very fine Mats to sitte vppon:  They haue no great store of weapons, for that halfe of them are vnprouided, and that they vse is a speare of nine ten foote long with a great wooden Target:  They are very fearefull of our Caliuers, for 5. or sixe men with Caliuers will cause great numbers of them to flie away:  We taught them what our peeces ment for wee perceyued that they knew them not, before they had proued them:  at the first they thought they coulde carry no further then their owne lengthes, for they knew not what they were:  Their Kinges ornamentes were ten or twelue Copper Rings about his armes:  if we had had such Ringes with vs, wee might haue sold them at what prices wee woulde.  They likewise vse beades of Glasse, which they weare about their armes and neckes, by them esteemed for great ornaments:  for a boxe of beades of small value, we had an Oxe, or three or foure Sheepe; rounde about this Bay are townes and villages, where you may haue of all things to refresh your selues, Lemons and Citrons are there greater and better then in Portingall:  Likewise Oringes, Ryce, Hennes, Goats, Honie, and many other sortes of fruites, and to conclude it is the best Bay in all the world to refresh ships.  Being on land we were wel entertayned, and must of force drink with them of their drinke made of Hony and Ryce:  There we trafiqued with them, and had sufficient of euery thing, but euery night we went aborde our shippes.

The third of February we had so great a storme, that most of our ankers were lost, and we ran vpon the land in great daunger to cast our ships away, but God holpe vs, for the storme ceased, and then we went to hoyse vp our lost ankers, and so againe went to anker vnder the Island, glad that we had so well escaped that daunger.  The fift of February we went to seeke for our boats, but the wild men had smitten them in peeces, and taken out the nailes, thinking likewise that our shippes woulde haue beene cast away vpon the shore, which they still expected:  and when we came thither, they stood vpon the shore with their weapons in hand and threw stones at vs, and we