LAST VOYAGE OF THOMAS CANDISH a.d. 



1593- 

 very desperate, we presently laboured for dispatch 



away ; some cut hoopes, which the coopers made, 



others laboured upon the sailes and ship, every man 



travelling for his life, & still a guard was kept on 



shore to defend those that laboured, every man having 



his weapon like wise by him. The 3 of February 



our men with 23 shot went againe to the gardens, 



being 3 miles from us upon the North shore, and 



fetched Cazavi-roots out of the ground, to relieve our 



company instead of bread ; for we spent not of our 



meale while we staied here. The 5 of February being 



munday, our captaine and master hasted the company 



to their labour ; so some went with the Coopers to 



gather hoopes, and the rest laboured aboord. This night 



many of our men in the ship dreamed of murther & Ominous and 



slaughter : In the morning they reported their dreames, M^^^rtiing 



one saying to another ; this night I dreamt, that thou 



wert slaine ; another answered, and I dreamed, that 



thou wert slaine : and this was general through the 



ship. The captaine hearing this, who like wise had 



dreamed very strangely himselfe, gave very streight 



charge, that those which went on shore should take 



weapons with them, and saw them himselfe deHvered 



into the boat, & sent some of purpose to guard the 



labourers. All the forenoone they laboured in quiet- 



nesse, & when it was ten of the clocke, the heat being 



extreme, they came to a rocke neere the woods side 



(for al this countrey is nothing but thick woods) and 



there they boyled Cazavi-roots, & dined : after dinner 



some slept, some washed themselves in the sea, all being 



stripped to their shirts, & no man keeping watch, no 



match lighted, not a piece charged. Suddenly as they 



were thus sleeping & sporting, having gotten themselves 



into a corner out of sight of the ship, there came a 



multitude of Indians & Portugales upon them, and slew 



them sleeping : onely two escaped, one very sore hurt, 



the other not touched, by whom we understood of 



this miserable massacre : with all speed we manned our 



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