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the officers knew not what had become of them ; 

 and it fortuned that one of the company, driven 

 with hunger to seeke a])roade for reliefe, found out 

 in the fieldes the savour of broyled flesh, and fell 

 out with one for that he would suffer him and his 

 fellowes to sterve, enjoying plentie as he thought ; 

 and this matter growing to cruell speaches, he that 

 had the broyled meate burst out into these 

 wordes: — If thou wouldest needes know, the 

 broyled meate I had was a piece of such a man's 

 buttocke. The report of this brought to the ship, 

 the captaine found what became of those that were 

 missing, and was perswaded that some of them 

 were neither devoured with wilde beastes nor yet 

 destroyed with savages : and hereupon he stood 

 up and made a notable oration, containing ho we 

 much these dealings offended the Almightie, and 

 vouched the Scriptures from first to last wliat God 

 had, in cases of distresse, done for them that called 

 upon him, and told them that the power of the 

 Almighty was then no lesse, then in al former 

 time it had bene. And added, that if it had not 

 pleased God to have holpen them in that distresse, 

 that it had been better to have perished in body, 

 and to have lived everlastingly, then to have 

 relieved for a poore time their mortal bodyes, and 

 to be condemned everlastingly both body and 

 soule to the unquenchable fire of hell. And thus 

 having ended to that effect, he began to exhort to 

 repentance, and besought all the company to pray, 



