AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1568. 



us. We taryed there till three of the clocke, but they 

 came not : there one of our company whose name was 

 John Cooke, with foure other departed from us into 

 a grove to seeke reliefe, where presently they were taken 

 by the Indians, and stript as naked as ever they were 

 borne, and so returned to us. 



Then we divided our selves into two parts, halfe to 



Anthony Anthony Goddard, and the rest to James Collier, and 



^ ^ • thus severally we sought for Panuco. Anthony Goddard 



A river. with his company, bid us farewell, they passed a river, 



where the Indians robbed many of them of their clothes, 

 and so passing on their way, came to a stony hill, where 



James Collier, they Stayed. James Collier with his company that day 

 passed the same river, and were also robbed, and one of 

 them slaine by chance : wee came that night unto the 

 hill, where Anthony Goddard and his company rested, 

 there we remained til morning, and then we marched 

 altogether from ^'thence, entring betweene two groves, 

 where the Indians robbed us of all our clothes, and left 



8. Englishmen us naked, they hurt many, and killed eight of us. Three 



same. daves after we came to another river, there the Indians 



Another river . 



shewed us the way to Panuco, and so left us : we passed 



the river into the wildernes, where we made wreaths of 



greene grasse, which we wound about our bodies, to 



keepe us from the Sunne, and gnats of that Countrey. 



Seven day es \Ye travelled there seven dayes, and seven nights, before 



rave ^^^ came to Panuco, feeding on nothing but roots, and 



Guiavos, a fruit like figs. At our comming to the river 



of Panuco two Spanish horsemen came over unto us 



in a Canowe : they asked us how long we had bene in 



the wildernesse, and where our generall was, for they 



knewe us to be of the company that had fought with 



their countrimen : we told them seven dayes and seven 



nights, and for lacke of victuals our Generall set us on 



shore, & he was gone away with his ships. They 



returned to their Governour, who sent them with ^yq 



Canowes to bring us all over, which done, they set us 



in aray, where a hundred horsemen with their lances, 



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