SIR JOHN HAWKINS ad. 



1565. 

 of the flesh of men, aswel as the Canibals. But to returne 

 to our purpose. 



The foureteenth day the shippe and barks came to 

 the Jesus, bringing them newes of the recovery of the 

 men, which was not a little to the rejoycing of the 

 captaine, and the whole company : and so then altogether 

 they kept on their way along the coast of Florida, and 

 the fifteenth day come to an anker, and so from sixe 

 and twenty degrees to thirty degrees and a halfe, where 

 the French men abode, ranging all the coast along, ^- fi^^kins 

 seeking for fresh water, ankering every night, because ^^^^^ / ^ 

 we would overshoot no place of fresh water, and in piorida. 

 the day time the captaine in the ships pinnesse sailed 

 along the shore, went into every creeke, speaking with 

 divers of the Floridians, because hee would understand 

 where the French men inhabited ; and not finding them 

 in eight and twenty degrees, as it was declared unto 

 him, marvelled thereat, and never left sailing along the 

 coast till he found them, who inhabited in a river, by 

 them called the river of May, and standing in thirty ^-^^ ^''^^'^^' 9f 

 degrees and better. In ranging this coast along, the „/-^.' _ , 

 captaine found it to be all an Island, and therefore it ^^ ^^ ^^^ j^^q 

 is all lowe land, and very scant of fresh water, but the Islands. 

 countrey was marvellously sweet, with both marish and 

 medow ground, and goodly woods among. There they 

 found sorell to grow as abundantly as grasse, and where Sorell. 

 their houses were, great store of maiz and mill, and '^}^ commodi- 

 grapes of great bignesse, but of taste much like our j^'^j^f j^f^^L] ^f 

 English grapes. Also Deere great plentie, which came Florida. 

 upon the sands before them. Their houses are not 

 many together, for in one house an hundred of them 

 do lodge; they being made much like a great barne, 

 and in strength not inferiour to ours, for they have 

 stanchions and rafters of whole trees, and are covered 

 with palmito-leaves, having no place divided, but one [III. 517.] 

 small roome for their king and queene. In the middest 

 of this house is a hearth, where they make great fires 

 all night, and they sleepe upon certeine pieces of wood 



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