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for three days. But let it not trouble you, nor do not 

 think yourselves restrained, but rather left to your rest 

 and ease. You shall want nothing, and there are six 

 of our people appointed to attend you, for any business 

 you may have abroad.&quot; We gave him thanks .with all 

 affection and respect, and said,. &quot; God surely is mani 

 fested in this land.&quot; We offered him also twenty 

 pistolets ; but he smiled, and only said ; &quot; What ? twice 

 paid ! &quot; And so he left us. Soon after our dinner 

 was served in ; which was right good viands, both for 

 bread and meat : l better than any collegiate diet that 

 I have known in Europe. We had also drink of three 

 sorts, all wholesome and good ; wine of the grape ; a 

 drink of grain, such as is with us our ale, but more 

 clear ; and a kind of cider made of a fruit of that 

 country ; a wonderful pleasing and refreshing drink. 

 Besides, there were brought in to us great store of 

 those scarlet oranges for our sick ; which (they said) 

 were an assured remedy for sickness taken at sea. 

 There was given us also a box of small grey or whitish 

 pills, which they wished our sick should take, one of 

 the pills every night before sleep ; which (they said) 

 would hasten their recovery. The next day, after that 

 our trouble of carriage and removing of our men and 

 goods out of our ship was somewhat settled and quiet, 

 I thought good to call our company together ; and 

 when they were assembled said unto them ; &quot; My dear 

 friends, let us know ourselves, and how it standeth 

 with us. We are men cast on land, as Jonas was out 

 of the whale s belly, when we were as buried in the 

 deep : and now we are on land, we are but between 



1 The translation has both for meat and drink; tarn respectu ciborum 

 yuam potus : and in the next line but one, Potus erat trium generum, &amp;lt;fc. 



