The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part IIIHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part III
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
two drowned, which were of captaine Blands men.
In the euening Of the same day, it being Munday the eight of October,
1568, when we were all come to shore, we found fresh water, whereof some
of our men drunke so much, that they had almost cast themselues away,
for wee could scarse get life of them for the space of two or three
houres after: other some were so cruelly swollen, what with the drinking
in of the salt water, and what with the eating of the fruit which wee
found on land hauing a stone in it much like an almond (which fruit is
called Capule) that they were all in very ill case, so that we were in a
maner all of vs both feeble, faint and weake.
The next morning being Tewsday, the ninth of October, we thought, it
best to trauell along by the sea coast, to seeke out some place of
habitation: (whether they were Christians or Sauages, we were
indifferent, so that we might haue wherewithall to sustaine our hungry
bodies) and so departing from an hill where we had rested all night, not
hauing any drie threed about vs, (for those that were not wet being not
throwen into the sea, were thorowly wet with raine, for all the night it
rained cruelly:) As we went from the hil, and were come into the plaine,
we were greatly troubled to passe for the grasse and weedes that grewe
there higher then any man. On the left hand we had the sea, and vpon the
right hand great woods, so that of necessitie we must needs passe on our
way Westward, through those marshes; and going thus, suddenly we were
assaulted by the Indians, a warlike kind of people, which are in a maner
as Canibals, although they doe not feede vpon mans flesh as Canibals
doe.
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