The fifteenth, in the morning, was misty, untill the sunne arose:  then it cleered.  So wee weighed with the wind at south, and ran up into the river twentie leagues, passing by high mountaines.[8] Wee had a very good depth, as sixe, seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve, and thirteene fathomes, and great store of salmons in the river.  This morning our two savages got out of a port and swam away.  I After wee were under sayle, they called to us in scorne.  At night we came to other mountaines, which lie from the rivers side.  There wee found very loving people, and very old men:  where wee were well used.  Our boat went to fish, and caught great store of very good fish....

The seventeenth, faire sun-shining weather, and very hot.  In the morning, as soone as the sun was up, we set sayle, and ran up sixe leagues higher, and found shoalds in the middle of the channell, and small ilands, but seven fathoms water on both sides.  Toward night we borrowed so neere the shoare, that we grounded:  so layed out our small anchor, and heaved off againe.  Then we borrowed on the banke in the channell, and came aground againe; while the floud ran we heaved off againe, and anchored all night.[9]

The eighteenth, in the morning, was faire weather, and we rode still.  In the after-noone our masters mate went on land with an old savage, a governor of the countrey; who carried him to his house, and made him good cheere.  The nineteenth, was faire and hot weather:  at the floud, being neere eleven of the clocke, wee weighed, and ran higher up two leagues above the shoalds, and had no lesse water then five fathoms; we anchored, and rode in eight fathomes.  The people of the countrie came flocking aboord, and brought us grapes and pompions, which wee bought for trifles.  And many brought us bevers skinnes and otters skinnes, which wee bought for beades, knives, and hatchets.  So we rode there all night.

The twentieth, in the morning, was faire weather.  Our masters mate with foure men more went up with our boat to sound the river, and found two leagues above us but two fathomes water, and the channell very narrow; and above that place, seven or eight fathomes.  Toward night they returned:  and we rode still all night.  The one and twentieth was faire weather, and the wind all southerly:  we determined yet once more to go farther up into the river, to trie what depth and breadth it did beare; but much people resorted aboord, so wee went not this day.  Our carpenter went on land, and made a fore-yard.  And our master and his mate determined to trie some of the chiefe men of the countrey, whether they had any treaeherie in them.  So they tooke them downe into the cabin, and gave them so much wine and aqua vita, that they were all merrie:  and one of them had his wife with them, which sate so modestly, as any of our countrey women would doe in a strange place.  In the ende one of them was drunke, which had beene aboord of our ship all the time that we had beene there:  and that was strange to them; for they could not tell how to take it.  The canoes and folke went all on shoare:  but some of them came againe, and brought stropes of beades:  some had sixe, seven, eight, nine, ten; and gave him.  So he slept all night quietly.