A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1565. 



and seeing them tacking about; whereas before at the 

 first sight of them they did greatly rejoyce, were 

 now in a greater perplexitie then ever they were : 

 for by this they thought themselves utterly forsaken, 

 whereas before they were in some hope to have found 

 them. Truly God wrought marvellously for them, 

 for they themselves having no victuals but water, and 

 being sore oppressed with hunger, were not of opinion 

 to bestow any further time in seeking the shippes then 

 that present noone time; so that if they had not at 

 that instant espied them, they had gone to the shore 

 to have made provision for victuals, and with such 

 things as they could have gotten, either to have gone for 

 that part of Florida where the French men were planted 

 (which would have bene very hard for them to have 

 done, because they wanted victuals to bring them thither, 

 being an hundred and twenty leagues off) or els to 

 have remained amongst the Floridians ; at whose hands 

 they were put in comfort by a French man, who was 

 with them, that had remained in Florida at the first 

 finding thereof, a whole yeere together, to receive victuals 

 sufficient, and gentle entertainment, if need were, for 

 a yeere or two, untill which time God might have pro- 

 vided for them. But how contrary this would have 

 fallen out to their expectations, it is hard to judge, 

 seeing those people of the cape of Florida are of 

 more savage and fierce nature, and more valiant then 

 any of the rest ; which the Spanyards well prooved, who 

 being five hundred men, who intended there to land, 

 returned few or none of them, but were inforced to 

 forsake the same : and of their cruelty mention is made 

 in the booke of the Decades, of a frier, who taking 

 upon him to persuade the people to subjection, was by 

 them taken, and his skin cruelly pulled over his eares, 

 and his flesh eaten. 



In these Islands they being a shore, found a dead 

 man, dried in a maner whole, with other heads and 

 bodies of men : so that these sorts of men are eaters 



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