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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B14999	An houre glasse of Indian newes. Or A true and tragicall discourse, shewing the most lamentable miseries, and distressed calamities indured by 67 Englishmen, which were sent for a supply to the planting in Guiana in the yeare. 1605 VVho not finding the saide place, were for want of victuall, left a shore in Saint Lucia, an island of caniballs, or men-eaters in the West-Indyes, vnder the conduct of Captain Sen-Iohns, of all which said number, onely a 11. are supposed to be still liuing, whereof 4. are lately returnd into England. Written by Iohn Nicholl, one of the aforesaid company.	Nicholl, John, emigrant to Guiana.	1607 (1607)	STC 18532; ESTC S110152	24,474	44

a Grater which he made of small sharpe flint stones beaten into a broade boord to grate our Cassada on whereof we made our breade and hee tolde vs that Anthonio would cut our throates and therefore bid vs kill him This made vs doubtfull which to trust to We had certaine Articles drawne which were to bée obserued wherein Captaine Nicholas Sen-Iohns was Captaine his brother Alexander Lieutenant Miles Pet and Philip Glascock were commaunders for the appoynting of our Watch Iohn Rogers was our interpreter for the Spanish tongue and was to buy and bargaine with the Indians for all the companie both for commodities and victuals Maister Garret Master Tench Francis Brace and my selfe were appointed to order the domesticall matters Carebie signifies in their language A valiant man All the occasions that we made whereby the Carrebyes should fall out with vs was that one of our companie did sell a sworde vnto Captaine Anthonio which was contrarie to the Articles wee had set downe for none was vpon paine of seuere punishment to sel either Sworde Dagger or Hedge-bill which when we knew Alexander Sen-Iohns with a dozen more went to his house and found him in his bed which they call an Hamaco with a little fire vnder him because hs was not well and the Sword standing by him which yong Sen-Iohns tooke and brought forth to vs. This droue him into a great rage against vs for neuer after that would he be familiar with vs. The Carrebyes did weare for an ornament vpon the small of their naked aimes a foure-square plate which maister Browne a Gold-finer told Captaine Sen-Iohns had three partes of it Golde who asked the Carrebyes where they got it who presently pointed vs to a great Mountaine on the North-west part of the Island whose toppe we might see from the place where wee dwelt but Anthonio saide there was none These contrarie tales made vs suspect some villanie and that it was but a pollicie to drawe some of our companie thither whereby they might the better deale with vs for at home they d●rst not attempt any thing against vs both for feare of our great Peece and also wee would not suffer them to bring their bowes and arrowes within our Centinell Yet our Captaine would not bee content till wee consented that hee should goe to the Mountaine and tooke with him all sortes of commodities to bargaine with the Indians for Cloath and he tooke old Browne the Gold-finer and his sonne George Browne Iohn Rogers Maister Looking the three sailers whose names were Iohn Fleming Thomas Butler Owen a Welchman Iames Garret one Ioseph and Christopher two Grocers and one Maister Euans with diuerse more to the number of sixtéene And vpon A Monday they all imbarked in the Boat taking eight dayes victuall with them promising to return betwixt that and the next Monday leauing his brother Miles Pet Philip Glascock M. Garret M. Tench and my selfe to rule at home Vpon Tuesday Wednesday the Indians did not come vnto vs with victuals as they had wōt which made vs after suspect that they were at the slaughter of our men at the Mount vpon Wednesday my selfe with 3. more went to Anthonios house where we found a great number of women but not passing halfe a score men making great preparation of victuals some baking of Cassada others roasting and boyling of great fishes and Turtles I offred to buy some of them but they refused and would not neither would they looke of any commoditie we had which made vs much maruell for before that time they neuer denied vs so we departed by the way we light of a narrow path wherein we trauelled a little and all along the way did growe aboundance of Guiaua trees whose fruit is as big as an Apple and verie pleasant to eate the greene ones are wholesome for the bloodie flixe Wee had not trauayled a Mile but wee entered downe by a Thicket into a most pleasant Garden of Potatoes which droue vs into greate admiration to beholde the manner of it for it was made round like a Bower encompassed with a greene Banke so equally that made vs thinke some Christians had made it for a strength to saue them from the Indians and vppon the toppe thereof did growe a companie of the moste tallest Trées that euer I behelde which did naturally growe so neere one to another and so thicke from the roote to the toppe that wee could not perceyue the skie through them But following the path wee perceyued it to passe through a narrow cut in the banke where wee traueyled two or three miles further passing through many goodly Gardens wherein was aboundance of Cassada Potatoes Tobacco Cotten-wool-trees and Guiaua trees in diuerse places as wee trauayled wee did maruaile to see the huge and great trées that were there for most of them were fiue or sixe fathoms about and fearing that wee shoulde bee benighted wee returned the same way againe with as much greene Tobacco Potatoes and Cassada as wee could carrie which did much content our men at home for the Indians had not brought any victuals in three dayes before At night sixe of our men went to seeke for Turtles and founde two verie great ones but could not bring them home For when they had turned them on their backes it beganne to raine thunder and lighten so extreamly that they had much a doe to get home themselues and so it continued all night with the moste horriblest thunder-claps that euer I heard with lightning and raine as light as day which caused vs to awake and after prayers to fit all night by greate Fiers drinking of Tobacc with extraordinarie myrth amongest our selues little foreseeing the daunger that befell to vs the next day Earely the next Morning wee went to bring home our Turtles and there wee founde a great number of Carrebyes on the shore and three or foure Boates by them roasting of lande Crabbes for what purpose they were so gathered together wee know not but least we should suspect them of any bad intent towardes vs they willed vs to eate with them and brought home our Turtles to our houses All that fore-noone wee kept good watch for there was verie many which came both by Sea and land and Augraumart and his father came with a great number of Indians and brought in his hande a quarter of a Turtle and a hundred Egges and gaue them to young Sen-Iohns and tolde him that if hee would goe to his Brother Anthonius house hee should haue greate store of victualls and that hee should see his wife and the more to perswade vs to goe hee promised that wee should haue Hamacas for to sleepe in which is the beds they vse Their Women dooth make them of Cotten that growes naturallye on the Trees wereof they haue aboundance Wee manye times made s●te vnto them for their Hamacas because they would bee a meanes to saue vs from the Stings of curtaine Flor called a Musketo the