MILES PHILIPS A.D. 



1568. 



and causes that make mee so to thinke of them that 

 were lacking, which were David Ingram, Twide, Browne, 

 and sundry others, whose names wee could not remem- 

 ber. And being thus met againe together, we travelled 

 on still Westward, sometime thorow such thicke woods, 

 that we were inforced with cudgels to breake away the 

 brambles and bushes from tearing our naked bodies : 

 other sometimes we should travell thorow the plaines, 

 in such high grasse that wee could scarse see one 

 another, and as we passed in some places, we should 

 have of our men slaine, and fall downe suddenly, being 

 strooken by the Indians, which stood behinde trees and 

 bushes, in secret places, and so killed our men as they 

 went by, for wee went scatteringly in seeking of fruites 

 to relieve our selves. We were also oftentimes greatly 

 annoyed with a kind of flie, which in the Indian tongue 

 is called Tequani, and the Spaniards called them Mus- 

 kitos. There are also in the sayd countrey a number of 

 other kinde of flies, but none so noysome as these 

 Tequanies bee : you shall hardly see them they be 

 so small, for they are scarse so big as a gnat ; they 

 will sucke ones blood marveilously, and if you kill 

 them while they are sucking, they are so venimous 

 that the place will swell extremely, even as one that 

 is stoong with a Waspe or Bee : but if you let them 

 sucke their fill, and to goe away of themselves, then 

 they doe you no other hurt, but leave behinde them 

 a red spot somewhat bigger then a flea-biting. At 

 the first wee were terribly troubled with these kinde 

 of flies, not knowing their qualities, and resistance wee 

 could make none against them, being naked : as for 

 cold wee feared not any, the countrey there is alwayes so 

 warme. And as we travelled thus for the space of tenne 

 or twelve dayes, our captaine did oftentimes cause certaine 

 to goe up into the toppes of high trees, to see if they 

 could descrie any towne or place of inhabitants, but they 

 could not perceive any, and using often the same order to 

 climbe up into high trees, at the length they descried a 



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