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Soon after our dinner was served in, which was right good viands, 

 both for bread and meat, 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 arc men cast on land, as Jonas was 

 out of the whale s belly, when we were as buried in the deep. And 

 now we arc on land, we arc but between death and life; for we arc 

 beyond both the Old World and New; and whether ever we shall sec 

 Europe God only knowcth : it is a kind of miracle hath brought us 

 hither, and it must be little less that shall bring us hence. Therefore, 

 in regard of our deliverance past, and our danger present and to come, 

 let us look up to Cod, and every man reform his own ways. Besides, 

 we are come here amongst a Christian people, full of piety and 

 humanity; let us not bring that confusion of face upon ourselves as to 

 show our vices or unworthincss before them. Yet there is more ; for 

 they have by commandment, though in form of courtesy, cloistered us 

 within these walls for three days : who knowcth whether it be not to 

 take some taste of our manners and conditions ; and if they find them 

 bad, to banish us straightways ; if good, to give us further time ? 

 For these men that they have given us for attendance may withal have 

 an eye upon us. Therefore for God s love, and as we love the weal of 

 our souls and bodies, let us so behave ourselves as we may be at peace 

 .vith God, and may find grace in the eyes of this people.&quot; Our com 

 pany with one voice thanked me for my good admonition, and promised 

 me to live soberly and civilly, and without giving any the least occa 

 sion of offence. So we spent our three days joyfully, and without 

 care, in expectation what would be done with us when they were ex 

 pired; during which time we had every hour joy of the amendment of 

 our sick, who thought themselves cast into some divine pool of heal 

 ing, they mended so kindly and so fast. 



The morrow after our three days were past, there came to us a new 

 man that we had not seen before, clothed in blue as the former was, 

 save that his turban was white, with a small red cross on the top ; he 

 had also a tippet of fine linen. At his coming in he did bend to us a 

 little, and put his arms abroad. We of our parts saluted him in a 

 very lowly and submissive manner, as looking that from him we should 

 receive sentence of life or death. He desired to speak with some few 

 of us ; whereupon six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided tho 



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