MILES PHILIPS A.D. 



1568. 



hazard themselves at sea, where they very well sawe, 

 that if they should remaine together, if they perished 

 not by drowning, yet hunger would inforce them in the 

 ende to eate one another : to which request our Generall 

 did very willingly agree, considering with himselfe that 

 it was necessary for him to lessen his number, both 

 for the safetie of himselfe & the rest : and therupon 

 being resolved to set halfe his people ashore that he 

 had then left alive, it was a world to see how suddenly 

 mens minds were altered : for they which a little be- 

 fore desired to be set on land, were now of another 

 minde, and requested rather to stay : by meanes where- [III. 474.] 

 of our Generall was inforced for the more contentation 

 of all mens minds, and to take away all occasions of 

 offence, to take this order : First he made choice of 

 such persons of service and account, as were needefull 

 to stay, and that being done, of those which were 

 willing to goe he appointed such as he thought might 

 be best spared, and presently appointed that by the 

 boat they should bee set on shore, our Generall promising 

 us that the next yeere he would either come himselfe, 

 or else send to fetch us home. Here againe it would 

 have caused any stony heart to have relented to heare 

 the pitifull mone that many did make, and howe loth 

 they were to depart : the weather was then somewhat 

 stormy and tempestuous, and therefore we were to 

 passe with great danger, yet notwithstanding there was 

 no remedy, but we that were appointed to goe away, 

 must of necessitie doe so. Howbeit those that went They were put 

 in the first boat were safely set on shore, but of them ^« i^^d 25 



which went in the second boate, of which number I ^^^S^^^ f^^^- 



. - 1 1 1-11 ward of 



my selre was one, the seas wrought so high, that we Panuco the 8 



could not attaine to the shore, and therefore we were of October 



constrained through the cruell dealing of John Hampton 15^8. 



captaine of the Minion, and John Sanders boatswaine of 



the Jesus, and Thomas Pollard his mate, to leape out 



of the boate into the maine sea, having more then a 



mile to shore, and so to shift for our selves, and either 



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