AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1565. 



with a purpose to be revenged of the evill turne which 

 he played : so that when I came thither, I found the 

 houses emptie, for he was retyred a little before with 

 all his people : & I could not by any meanes keepe my 

 souldiers, being angry because they had lost one of 

 their companions, from setting the village on fire. At 

 my departure from thence I passed backe againe by 

 Enecaque, where I gathered as much maiz as I could 

 possibly : which with great diligence I conveied to our 

 Fort to succour my poore men, which I had left in 

 great necessitie. They therefore seeing me a farre off 

 comming, ranne to that side of the river where they 

 thought I would come on land : for hunger so pinched 

 them to the heart, that they could not stay untill the 

 victuals were brought them to the Fort. And that they 

 well shewed assoone as I was come, and that I had 

 distributed that little maiz among them, which I had 

 given to ech man, before I came out of the barke : for 

 they eate it before they had taken it out of the huske. 

 But seeing my selfe in this extreme neede, I tooke 

 paines day by day to seeke some villages where there 

 was some food. And as I travailed this way and that 

 Two Carpen- way, it happened that two of my Carpenters were killed by 

 ters killed for ^j^^ ^^q sonnes of king Emola, and by one whose name 

 ^lndians%lJ^ was Casti, as they went on walking to the village called 

 The village Athore. The cause of this murder was, because they 

 Athore. could not refraine themselves as they walked through 



the fields from gathering a little maiz, which as they 

 were doing, they were taken in the maner : wherof I 

 was presently advertised by an Indian which a little 

 Islia Cuhacani before had brought me a present from Nia Cubacani 

 a Queene. Queene of a village, and neighbour to our Fort. Upon 

 receipt of this advertisement, I sent my Sergeant with 

 a number of souldiers which found nothing else but 

 the 2 dead corpses, which they buried and returned 

 without doing any other exploit, because the inhabitants 

 were fled away, fearing they should be punished for such 

 a foule fact. As these things thus passed, & that by 



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