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then asked us, &quot; What number of persons we were ? 

 And how many sick ? &quot; We answered, &quot; We were 

 in all (sick and whole) one and fifty persons, whereof 

 our sick were seventeen.&quot; He desired us to have 

 patience a little, and to stay till he came back to us ; 

 which was about an hour after ; and then he led us to 

 see the chambers which were provided for us, being in 

 number nineteen : they having cast it (as it seemeth) 

 that four of those chambers, which were better than 

 the rest, might receive four of the principal men of 

 our company, and lodge them alone by themselves ; 

 and the other fifteen chambers were to lodge us two 

 and two together. The chambers were handsome and 

 cheerful chambers, and furnished civilly. Then he led 

 us to a long gallery, like a dorture, 1 where he showed 

 us all along the one side (for the other side was but 

 wall and window) seventeen cells, very neat ones, hav- * 

 ing partitions of cedar wood. Which gallery and cells, 

 being in all forty, (many more than we needed,) were 

 instituted as an infirmary for sick persons. And he 

 told us withal, that as any of our sick waxed well, he 

 might be removed from his cell to a chamber ; for 

 which purpose there were set forth ten spare chambers, 

 besides the number we spake of before. This done, 

 he brought us back to the parlour, and lifting up his 

 cane a little, (as they do when they give any charge ] 

 or command, 2 ) said to us, &quot;Ye are to know that the 

 custom of the land requireth, that after this day and 

 to-morrow, (which we give you for removing of your 

 people from your ship,) you are to keep within doors 



1 Dormitory. The Latin translation has, qualia solent esse dormitoria 

 monachorum. 



2 i. e., any charge which they have received from superior authority 

 (quod in more illis erat quolies ministri mandata superiorum referunt). 



