[Sidenote:  Thirty seuen Canoas.  Their musicke.] The next morning being the 30. of Iuly there came 37 Canoas rowing by our ships, calling to vs to come on shoare:  we not making any great haste vnto them, one of them went vp to the toppe of the rocke, and leapt and daunced as they had done the day before, shewing vs a seales skinne, and another thing made like a timbrell, which he did beat vpon with a sticke, making a noise like a small drumme.  Whereupon we manned our boats and came to them, they all staying in their Canoas:  we come to the water side where they were:  and after we had sworne by the Sunne after their fashion, they did trust vs. [Sidenote:  Great familiarity with the Sauages.] So I shooke hands with one of them, and he kissed my hand, and we were very familiar with them.  We were in so great credit with them vpon this single acquaintance, that we could haue any thing they had.  We bought fiue Canoas of them:  we bought their clothes from their backs, which were all made of seales skinnes and birds skinnes; their buskins, their hose, their gloues, all being commonly sowed and well dressed:  so that we were fully perswaded that they haue diuers artificers among them.  We had a paire of buskins of them full of fine wool like beuer.  Their apparell for heat was made of birds skinnes with their feathers on them.  We saw among them leather dressed like Glouers leather, and thicke thongs like white leather of a good length.  We had of their darts and oares, and found in them that they would by no meanes displease vs, but would giue vs whatsoeuer we asked of them, and would be satisfied with whatsoeuer we gaue them.  They tooke great care of one another:  for when we had bought their boats, then two other would come and cary him away betweene them that had solde vs his.  They are very tractable people, void of craft or double dealing, and easie to be brought to any civility or good order:  but we iudge them to be idolaters and to worship the Sunne.

[Sidenote:  Diuers sorts of wood.] During the time of our abode among these Islands we found reasonable quantitie of wood, both firre, spruse and iuniper; which whether it came floating any great distance to these places where we found it, or whether it grew in some great Islands neere the same place by vs not yet discouered, we know not; but we iudge that it groweth there further into the land then we were, because the people had great store of darts and oares which they made none account of, but gaue them to vs for small trifles, as points and pieces of paper. [Sidenote:  They may make much traine, if they had meanes how to vse it.] We saw about this coast marueilous great abundance of seales skulling together like skuls of small fish.  We found no fresh water among these Islands, but onely snow water, whereof we found great pooles.  The cliffes were all of such oare as M. Frobisher brought from Meta incognita. [Sidenote:  Moscouie glasse.] We had diuers shewes of Study or Muscouy glasse shining not altogether vnlike to Christall.