sayde that he sawe latin bookes in the Kings library, whiche they at this present doe not vnderstande, they haue a peculiar language and letters or caracters to them selues.Aboundance of golde. They haue mines of all manner of mettals, but especially they abounde with golde. They haue their trade in Engroueland from whence they bring skins and brimstone and pitch: And he saith that to y͏ͤ southwards, there is a great populous coũtrey very rich of gold.trade from estotiland, to Engroueland - skins, brimstone and pitche. Gold, corne, and bere, or ale. They sowe corne and make bere or ale, which is a kind of drinke that the north people doe vse as we do wine. They haue mightie great woods, they make their buildings with wals, and there are many cities & castels.Many cities and castles. They build smal barkes and haue sayling, but they haue not the lodestone nor know not the vse of the cõpasse. Wherefore these fishers were had in great etimatiõ, insomuch that the king sent them with 12. barkes to the southwardes to a countrey whiche they A countrey called Drogio.call Drogio: but in their voyage they had suche countrary weather, that they thought all to haue perished in the sea, but yet escaping that cruell death, they fel into another more cruel. For they were takẽ in the countrey and the most parte of them eaten by the Sauage people, which feede vpon mans fleshe, as the sweetest meate in their iudgements that is.
But that fisher with his fellowesThe 6. fishermẽ of frisland only saued, by shewing the maner to take fishe. shewing them the maner of taking fishe with nettes, saued their liues: and woulde goe euery day a fishing to the sea and in fresh riuers, and take great aboundance of fish and giue it to the chiefe men of the countrey, whereby hee got him selfeThe chiefest of the 6. fishers, specified before his cõpanions so great fauour, that hee was very well beloued and honoured of euery one.
The fame of this man being spread abroad in the countrey, there was a Lorde thereby that was verie desirous to haue him with him, and to see howe hee vsed his miraculous arte of catching fishe, in so muche that he made warre with the other Lorde, with whom hee was before, and in the ende preuayling, for that hee was more mightie and a better warriour, the fisherman was sent vnto him with the rest of his company. And for the space of thirteene yeeresIn the space of 13. yeres in Drogio. that hee dwelt in those partes, he saith, that he was sent in this orderto
