ember them, and
by stealth provided a sacrifice, which we misliked.

Our necessary business being ended, our General with his company
travelled up into the country to their villages, where we found herds of
deer by a thousand in a company, being most large, and fat of body.
We found the whole country to be a warren of a strange kind of coneys;
their bodies in bigness as be the Barbary coneys, their heads as the
heads of ours, the feet of a want [mole], and the tail of a rat, being
of great length. Under her chin is on either side a bag, into the which
she gathereth her meat, when she hath filled her belly abroad. The
people eat their bodies, and make great account of their skins, for
their king's coat was made of them. Our General called this country Nova
Albion, and that for two causes; the one in respect of the white banks
and cliffs, which lie towards the sea, and the other, because it might
have some affinity with our country in name, which sometime was so
called. There is no part of earth here to be taken up, wherein there is
not some probable show of gold or silver.

At our departure hence our General set up a monument of our being there,
as also of her Majesty's right and title to the same; namely a plate,
nailed upon a fair great post, whereupon was engraved her Majesty's
name, the day and year of our arrival there, with the free giving up
of the province and people into her Majesty's hands, together with her
Highness' picture and arms, in a piece of six pence of current English
money, under the plate, whereunder was also written the name of our
General.

It seemeth that the Spaniards hitherto had never been in this part of
the country, neither did ever discover the land by many degrees to the
southwards of this place.

After we had set sail from hence, we continued without sight of land
till the 13th day of October following, which day in the morning we fell
with certain islands eight degrees to the northward of the line, from
which islands came in a great number of _canoas_, having in some of them
four, in some six, and in some also fourteen men, bringing with them
cocos and other fruits. Their _canoas_ were hollow within and cut with
great art and cunning, being very smooth within and without, and bearing
a gloss as if it were a horn daintily burnished, having a prow and a
stern of one sort, yielding inward circle-wise, being of a great height,
and full of certain white shells for a bravery; and on each s