Note 69 — PREMIÈRE PARTIE

Note 69: (retour) M. Winslow écrivait: «One thing was grievous unto us at this place. There was an old woman, whom we judged to be no less than a hundred years old, which came to see us, because she never saw English; yet could not behold us without breaking forth into great passion, weeping and crying excessively. We demanding the reason of it, they told us she had three sons who, when Master Hunt was in these parts went aboard his ship to trade with him, and he carried them captives in Spain; by which means she was deprived of the comfort of her children in her old âge.»