tle way off: Butt doe you not heare what cracks their Bow-ftrings give?

   Many fuch pretty fayings hee vfed in the time of his being with
vs, and at his departure, hee thus expreft his extraodinary affection
vnto vs.

   I do love the English, fo well that if they fhould kill me, fo that they
left me but fo much breath, as to fpeak vnto my people, I would com-
mand them not to revenge my death:

   As for the Natiues, they are proper tall men of perfon; fwarthy by
nature but much more by Art: painting themfelues with colours
in oyle, like a darke Red, which they doe to keepe the Gnatts off:
wherin I confeffe, there is more eafe then comlineffe.

   As for their faces, they haue other colours at times; as Blew from
die nofevpward, and Red downeward, and fometime contrariwise
in great variety, and in very gaftly manner fometimes; they haue no
beards till they come to bee very old, and therefore drawe from
each fide of their mouthes, lines to their very eares, to reprefent a
beard; and this fometimes of one colour, and fometimes of another.

   They weare their haire generally very long, and it is as blacke as
Iett: which they bring vp in a knott to the left-eare, and tye it a-
bout with a large ftring of Wampampegg , or Roanoake, or fome o-
ther of the beft Iewels among them. Vpon their fore-head, fome
vfe to weare a Fifh of Copper, and fome weare other figures.

   About their neckes, they vfe to weare many bugle chaynes, blew
and white, and other colours; though thefe begin now not to bee e-
fteemed among them for truck. Their apparrell generally is deere-
skin, and other Furre, which they weare like loofe mantles: yet vnder
this, about their middle, all women and men, at mans eftate, weare
Perizomata (or round aprons) of skinnes, which keepes them de-
cently covered, that without any offence of chaft eyes, wee may
conuerfe with them.

   All the reft of their bodies are naked, and at times, fome of the
younger fort both men and women haue iuft nothing to couer them.
Their feete are as hard as any horne, when they runne ouer prickles
and thornes they feele it not. Their Armes is a Bow, with a bunch
of Arrowes, of a yard long, furnifht with three feathers at the top;
and pointed either with the point of a deeres horne, or a fharpe three-
corner'd white flint; the rest is a fmall cane, or ftraight fticke. They
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