MILES PHILIPS A.D. 



1580-82. 



Chap. 7. 



Wherein is shewed how I escaped to Guatimala, upon the 

 South sea, and from thence to the port of Cavallos, 

 where I got passage to goe into Spaine, and of our 

 arrivall at Havana, and our comming to Spaine, 

 where I was againe like to have bene committed 

 prisoner, and how through the great mercy of God 

 I escaped, and came home in safetie into England 

 in February 1582. 



THe next morning (day light being come) I per- 

 ceived by the Sunne rising what way to take to 

 escape their hands, for when I fledde, I tooke the way 

 into the woods upon the left hand : and having left 

 that way that went to Mexico upon my right hand, I 

 thought to keepe my course as the woods and moun- 

 taines lay, still direct South as neere as I could : by 

 meanes whereof I was sure to convey my selfe farre 

 ynough from that way that went to Mexico. And as 

 I was thus going in the woods, I saw many great fires 

 made to the North not past a league from the moun- 

 taine where I was, and travailing thus in my bootes 

 with mine yron coller about my necke, and my bread 

 and cheese, the very same forenoone I mette with a 

 company of Indians which were hunting of Deere for 

 their sustenance : to whom I spake in the Mexican 

 tongue, and told them how that I had of a long time 

 bin kept in prison by the cruel Spanyards, and did 

 desire them to helpe me to file off mine yron coller, 

 which they willingly did : rejoycing greatly with me, 

 that I was thus escaped out of the Spanyards hands. 

 Then I desired that I might have one of them to guide 

 mee out of those desert mountaines towardes the South, 

 which they also most willingly did : and so they brought 

 mee to an Indian towne 8. leagues distant from thence, 

 named Shalapa, where I stayed three dayes, for that I 

 was somewhat sickely. At which towne (with the gold 

 that I had quilted in my dublet) I bought me an horse 



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