About the same time that _Gasca_ arriv’d in _Spain_, _John Stade_ had the Command over a small Fort rais’d of Stone and Earth, on the Island _Maro_, adjacent to _Brasile_, because the Salvage People of _Tupin Imba_ sail’d twice a year from the Countrey of Brikioka, to _Maro_, at the time when the Plant Abbati was ripe, of which they made the Liquor that they generally drink at their Humane Banquets: They also landed on Maro about the _Bratti_-Fishing. This _Bratti_ is a Fish of a very delicious taste, either caught in Nets, or shot by the _Tupin Imba_, and carried to their several Habitations. Against these People _Stade_ kept a continual Guard, when _Heliodorus Hesse_, Son to _Eobanus Hesse_, the famous _Latin_ Poet in _Germany_, came to visit him. _Stade_ to entertain his Guest the better, went into the Woods to hunt for Venison, where he was taken by the _Tupin Imba_, of which the King march’d in the Rear with a great Palm-Tree Club, and carried him towards the Sea side, that he, with others that waited on the Shore, might make up a _Kawewipepicke_ (that is, _A Feast of Rosted Men_) But because _Stade_ being a _German_ of a large Body, well-skinn’d, young, plump and fat, they all concluded to spare this Dainty, and carry him alive to _Brikioka_, that with such a Banquet they might highly caress their Wives: But the Journey being long, and a just melancholy possessing him with fear, and the terror of certain death, and to be Food for such ravenous _Cannibals_, so macerated and consum’d him, that he was almost dwindled away to Skin and Bone; whereupon thinking him thus lean to make but few savory Morsels, they chang’d their resolutions, and growing better acquainted, he having learn’d their Tongue, and being able to discourse with them, they lik’d his company so well, that they let him live amongst them. Nine years _Stade_ had been a Slave amongst these Man-eaters, when the _French_ coming thither, bought him for a few Trifles, and carried him to _Normandy_, where landing _Anno 1555._ he went from thence to _Hamburgh_, being his Native Countrey. [Sidenote: _Durande_’s Expedition.] [Sidenote: Dissention in the new Colony.] [Sidenote: Wickedness of _Cointak_ against the Ministers.] [Sidenote: _Durande_ drowns three Religious Men.]