A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



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very little with them; in which place they being two 



hundred men at their first comming, had in short space 

 eaten all the maiz they could buy of the inhabitants 

 about them, and therefore were driven certeine of them 

 to serve a king of the Floridians against other his 

 enemies, for mill and other victuals : which having 

 gotten, could not serve them, being so many, so long 

 Bread made a time : but want came upon them in such sort, that 

 ofakorns, ^^^^ ^^^^ f^jj^^ I-q gather acorns, which being stamped 

 small, and often washed, to take away the bitternesse 

 of them, they did use for bread, eating withall sundry 

 times, roots, whereof they found many good and hole- 

 some, and such as serve rather for medecines then for 

 meates alone. But this hardnesse not contenting some 

 of them, who would not take the paines so much as 

 to fish in the river before their doores, but would have 

 all things put in their mouthes, they did rebell against 

 the captaine, taking away first his armour, and after- 

 ward imprisoning him ; and so to the number of foure- 

 score of them, departed with a barke and a pinnesse, 

 spoiling their store of victuall, and taking away a great 

 part thereof with them, and so went to the Islands of 

 Hispaniola and Jamaica a roving, where they spoiled 

 and pilled the Spanyards ; and having taken two caravels 

 [III, 518.] laden with wine and casavi, which is a bread made of 

 roots, and much other victuals and treasure, had not 

 the grace to depart therewith, but were of such haughty 

 stomacks, that they thought their force to be such that 

 no man durst meddle with them, and so kept harborow 

 in Jamaica, going dayly ashore at their pleasure. But 

 God which would not suffer such evill doers unpunished, 

 did indurate their hearts in such sort, that they lingered 

 the time so long, that a ship and galliasse being made 

 out of Santa Domingo came thither into the harborow, 

 and tooke twenty of them, whereof the most part were 

 hanged, and the rest caried into Spaine, and some (to 

 the number of five and twenty) escaped in the pinnesse, 

 and came to Florida ; where at their landing they were 



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