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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

the shelles and did eate them rawe then euery one cryed out for fresh Water So William Pickes and my selfe went to séeke for water but we had not gone halfe an houre but wee came to our Fellowes agayne without finding of any Water to comfort vs withall So the place where we landed prooued to be a broken Island incompassed with the Sea about a league from the Mayne As soone as it was Day wee ●igged pit●es in the ground for fresh water but could finde none that was to bee drunke some went to the Boate to saue such commodyties as were left vndriuen away with the Sea Others found Perrywinckles on the Rockes which was all the victuall wee had to eate but our stomacks were so weake we could not eate aboue two or thrée a day Thus not knowing what course to take to saue our liues from famine one Myles Pet William Pickes and my selfe went and haled the Boat out of the rockes to the shore which was split to the very midst and so far with our swords we cut off put in a head in the midst and fastned it with our Daggers Kniues and Bodkins stopping all the leakes with our shirtes So fiue of our company ventered in her to the maine land their names were Myles Pett William Kettlebie William Pickes Francis Brace and William Butcher leauing Richard Garrard Philip Glascocke Iohn Coxford and my selfe with the rest in this hungry and desolate Island And at last it pleased God to bring them to the maine land they haled their Boate alongst the shore crossing many great riuers wherin they were pursued by diuers deuouring Serpents of the Sea as the Alligortos who are of such force that they will pull a horse vnder water and deuour him and will trauell more then two leagues from the water to séeke their prayes And also that greedy Sharke who hath thrée rankes of téeth set like a saw and will bite off a mans thigh at one snatch Yet God preserued them miraculously And when they were like to giue ouer trauelling being in despaire for euer to find any Spaniards for to succour them with foode God pittying their estates guided them to a place where they found a great Earthen pot full of wheat flower which they boyled with fresh water A pot of flower set in a Caue by some Indian and satisfied their hungry appetites with thankes to God for the same And within two dayes after they met with thrée Spaniards and with halfe a dozen Indians and Negros trauelling from Carraccas to Coro driuing horses and Mules loaden with Marchandize Who séeing their weakenesse for want of victual vnloaded their beasts to feed on the grasse whilest they fed our hungry men with plentie of their good cheare shewing them great courtesie suffering them to ●ide went themselues afoote two or thrée dayes till they came to a towne of ciuill Indians called Tocoya where they stayed to refresh them And there they let the Spaniards know in what miserable case they left vs in a desolate Island where wee indured the greatest misery that euer men did and liue for wee continued fiftéene dayes hauing no kinde of meat but Periwinckles or Whelkes Tobacco Salt-water which did nothing at all nourish vs yet it tooke away the desire of hunger and saued vs from eating one another In that fiftéene dayes fiue of our companie pined to death for hunger Their names were Iohn Perkins Edward Greene Ierome Swash Thomas Stubs and an olde man called Iohn Tobacco was the chiefe food I found to do me good and did preserue my lyfe and those which could take it downe did kéepe strongest but those which could not take it at all died first By noting one or two of our men to die wee knewe when any of vs drewe neere our death which was first they would swell very bigge and after fall to the very bones and then wanting natural strength in their backs to hold vp their heades it would fall downe and droupe in there bosomes and within twelue houres after they would die At the 15. daies end Francis Brace hauing more strength then the rest guided the three Spaniards to the Island where we were wee little expecting it for wee thought they had béene kilde eyther by wild beastes or Saluages and wee had giuen ouer looking for comfort but euery one particularly desiring God that himselfe might not be the last man of dying which conceit was worse then death it selfe vnto vs. But his returne did adde much comfort vnto vs in that dis●esse for they brought vs victuall which when wee had eate had almost kild vs by reason of the weaknesse of our stomackes beyng so farre spent that wee could not disgest it although we did eate it very sparingly The next day the Spaniards carried vs to the maine land where wee had horses brought vs and the goods we had they tooke it all for the King of Spaines vse and then they conuaied vs to Tocoya where we which were weake remained for fiftéene daies and those which were strong went to Coro fiftie leagues from Tocoya At the 15. daies end one of the three Spaniards whose name was Signior Carow Vallo came for vs with horses who shewed himselfe as carefull to vs as if wee had béene his owne Countrymen and friends in 5. daies brought vs to Coro to our fellowes where wee were brought before the Gouernour and by a Flemming which could speake a little English which had been prysoner there sixteene yeres we were examined of the cause of our comming on that coast who excused vs very well for he knew that if we confessed whither wee were determined to goe meaning Guiana they would eyther haue put vs to death or condemned vs to the Gallies to rowe But ●e told them that wee neuer purposed to come into the West Indies but that we were by misfortune and tempest driuen on that coast and told them of all the miseries and dangers we had indured and escaped which droue them into great admiratiō saying we were deuils and not men And the Fleming told vs the fathers of their churches said that if we had béene good Christians we deserued to be canonized for Saints but in regard we were Lutherans it was more by the deuils meanes then by the prouidence of God wee escaped those dangers So all the chiefe of the Towne being there euery man was desirous to take one of vs who did not vse vs like prysoners but were as carefull of vs as of their owne children not suffering vs to want any thing that was necessary for the procuring of our health My selfe beyng extreme sicke of the Callienturo one Captain Peroso who married his daughter with whom I dwelt whose name was Francisco Lopus hauing good skill in Phisicke came daily to my chamber there let mée blood purged and dieted me giuing his daughter in charge not to let me want any thing by whose courteous and tender vsage it pleased God