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boat, & landed to succour our men ; but we found 

 them slaine, & laied naked on a ranke one by another, 

 with their faces upward, and a crosse set by them : 

 and withall we saw two very great pinnesses come from 

 the river of Jenero very ful of men ; whom we mis- 

 trusted came from thence to take us : because there 

 came from Jenero souldiers to Santos, when the 

 Generall had taken the towne and was strong in it. 

 Of 76 persons which departed in our ship out of 

 Thirteene men England, we were now left but 27, having lost 13 in 

 fp!^.^^,} this place, with their chiefe furniture, as muskets, 

 L their'ozvne calivers, powder, & shot. Our caske was all in decay, 

 extreme negli- SO that we could not take in more water than was in 

 gence. our ship, for want of caske, and that which we had 



was marvellous ill conditioned : and being there mored 

 by trees for want of cables and ankers, we still expected 

 the cutting of our morings, to be beaten from our 

 decks with our owne furniture, & to be assayled by 

 them of Jenero : what distresse we were now driven 

 into, I am not able to expresse. To depart with 8 

 tunnes of water in such bad caske was to sterve at sea, 

 & in staying our case was ruinous. These were hard 

 choises ; but being thus perplexed, we made choice 

 rather to fall into the hands of the Lord, then into 

 the hands of men : for his exceeding mercies we had 

 tasted, & of the others cruelty we were not ignorant. 

 So concluding to depart, the 6 of February we were 

 off in the chanell, with our ordinance & small shot in 

 a readines, for any assalt that should come, & having 

 a small gale of winde, we recovered the sea in most 

 deepe distresse. Then bemoning our estate one to 

 another, and recounting over all our extremities, nothing 

 grieved us more, then the losse of our men twise, first 

 by the slaughter of the Canibals at Port Desire, and at 

 this He of Placencia by the Indians and Portugals. And 

 considering what they were that were lost, we found 

 that al those that conspired the murthering of our 

 captaine & master were now slain by salvages, the 



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