A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1568. 



to sinke or swimme. And of those that so were (as it 

 were) throwen out, and compelled to leape into the sea, 

 there were two drowned, which were of captaine Blands 

 men. 



In the evening of the same day, it being Munday 

 the eight of October, 1568, when we were all come to 

 shore, we found fresh water, whereof some of our men 

 drunke so much, that they had almost cast themselves 

 away, for wee could scarse get life of them for the space 

 of two or three houres after : other some were so cruelly 

 swollen, what with the drinking in of the salt water, and 

 what with the eating of the fruit which wee found on 

 land, having a stone in it much like an almond (which 

 Capiile a kind fruit is called Capule) that they were all in very ill case, 

 of stone fruit, g^ ^^^^ ^^ were in a maner all of us both feeble, faint 

 and weake. 



The next morning being Tewsday, the ninth of 

 October, we thought it best to travell along by the sea 

 coast, to seeke out some place of habitation : (whether 

 they were Christians or Savages, we were indifferent, 

 so that we might have wherewithall to sustaine our 

 hungry bodies) and so departing from an hill where we 

 had rested all night, not having any drie threed about 

 us, (for those that were not wet being not throwen 

 into the sea, were thorowly wet with raine, for all the 

 night it rained cruelly :) As we went from the hil, and 

 were come into the plaine, we were greatly troubled to 

 passe for the grasse and weedes that grewe there higher 

 then any man. On the left hand we had the sea, and 

 upon the right hand great woods, so that of necessitie 

 we must needs passe on our w^ay Westward, through 

 those marshes ; and going thus, suddenly we were 

 assaulted by the Indians, a warlike kind of people, which 

 are in a maner as Canibals, although they doe not 

 feede upon mans flesh as Canibals doe. 



These people are called Chichimici, and they use to 

 weare their haire long, even down to their knees, they 

 doe also colour their faces greene, yellow, red and blew, 



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Chichimici a 

 warlike and 

 cruel people. 



