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Every nation is to be considered advisedly, and not to provoke them by any disdain, laughing, contempt, or suchlike, but to use them with prudent circumspection, with all gentleness, and courtesy.
The names of the people of every island, are to be taken in writing, with the commodities of the same, their natures, quali- ties, and dispositions, what commodities they will most willingly depart with, and what metals they have in hills, mountains, streams, or rivers, in, or under the earth.
If people shall appear gathering of stones, gold, metal, or other like, on the sand, your pinnaces may draw nigh, marking what things they gather, using or playing upon the drum, or such other instruments, as may allure them, but keep you out of danger, and show to them no sign of hostility.
If you
shall be invited into any lord's house, to dinner, or other parlance, go in such order of strength, that you may be stronger than they, and be wary of ambushes, and that your weapons be not out of your possession.
If you see them wear lions' or bears' skins, having long bows and arrows, be not afraid of that sight: for such be worn often- times more to fear strangers, than for any other cause.
There be people that can swim in the sea, havens, and rivers, naked, having bows and shafts, coveting to draw nigh your ships, which if they shall find not well watched, or warded, they will assault, desirous of the bodies of men, which they covet for meat: if you resist them they dive, and so will flee, and therefore diligent watch is to be kept both day and night, in some islands.
If occasion serve, that you may give advertisements of your proceedings, and likelihood of success in the voyage, passing such dangers of the seas, perils of ice, intolerable colds, and other impediments, by which sundry authors have ministered matter of suspicion that this voyage could not succeed for the extremity of the North Pole, lack of passage, and suchlike, which have caused wavering minds, and doubtful heads, to withdraw themselves from the adventure of this voyage, when you shall have tried by
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