oncludes with some
prayers, and so dismisses them.

The Weddings being finished, all the people took their places to hear
the Word read, the new married persons having the honour to be next unto
the Priest that day, after he had read three or four Chapters he fell
to expounding the most difficult places therein, the people being very
attentive all that while, this exercise continued for two or three
hours, which being done, with some few prayers he concluded, but all the
rest of that day was by the people kept very strictly, abstaining from
all manner of playing or pastimes, with which on other dayes they use to
pass their time away, as having need of nothing but victuals, and that
they have in such plenty as almost provided to their hands.

Their exercises of Religion being over, we returned again to our Ship,
and the next day, taking with us two or three Fowling-pieces leaving
half our Company to guard the Ship, the rest of us resolved to go up
higher into the Country for a further discovery: All the way as we
passed the first morning, we saw abundance of little Cabbins or Huts of
these inhabitants, made under [76]Trees, and fashioned up with boughs,
grass, {{21 }} and such like stuffe to defend them from the Sun and
Rain; and as we went along, they came out of them much wondering at our
Attire, and standing aloof off from us as if they were afraid, but our
companion that spake English, calling to them in their own Tongue, and
giving them good words, they drew nigher, some of them freely proffering
to go along with us, which we willingly accepted; but having passed
some few miles, one of our company espying a Beast like unto a Goat come
gazing on him, he discharged his Peece, sending a brace of Bullets into
his belly, which brought him dead upon the ground; these poor naked
unarmed people hearing the noise of the Peece, and seeing the Beast lie
tumbling in his gore, without speaking any words betook them to their
heels, running back again as fast as they could drive, nor could the
perswasions of our Company, assuring them they should have no hurt,
prevail anything at all with them, so that we were forced to pass along
without their company: all the way that we went we heard the delightful
harmony of singing Birds, the ground very fertile in Trees, Grass, and
such flowers, as grow by the production of Nature, without the help of
Art; many and several sorts of Beads we saw, who were not so much wild
as in other Countri