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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

Then within two Moneths after a Deputy Gouernour was chosen Who was Prisoner also vnto whome a Portyngall who was our great friend in the pryson framed a Petition which was deliuered by Iohn Frengham our Countrey-man Whose Answere was to him that if we could procure any Spaniards to bayle vs for our foorth comming we should be at liberty Which graunt Signiour Francisco Lopus and Antonio Cambero had no sooner heard of but they entred in Bond of a thousand Duccates for our foorth-comming The cause why Francisco Lopus did this for vs was because Captaine Drake when he tooke Carthagena did saue all his fathers goods and his life withall And at our deliuery the Tenientie told vs that although by order of Lawe they could iustly haue put vs to death Yet seing God had so myraculously saued vs and that wee had indured so many miseries to saue our liues and that onely we came to them for succour and reliefe they were content to set vs at libertie Then Francisco Lopus brought vs a discharge from the Gouernor to the Iayler for our deliuery out of pryson and brought vs all thrée to his owne house where was prouided for euery of vs a seuerall bedde for the country is so hot wee cannot lye but one in a bed Our entertainement was great and all our seruices in plate with great varietie of meates and all the most delicious Indians fruites whatsoeuer and yet he thought wee neuer fared well without hee sent vs one extraordinary dish or other from his owne table Also many Gallants resorted to his house to play at Cardes who would shewe themselues very liberall vnto vs at their winning There wee continued in great pleasure vntill the Galliouns were readie to goe for Spaine with the treasure The Citty of Carthagena is a place of great force for by Land you can not come to it but one way which is strongly garded it is almost encompassed with the Sea It hath foure Castels two at the entrance of the Harbour and one within where Chaynes are drawne acrosse the water The fourth is within the Citty where their Court of guarde is kept of 500. Souldiers and it hath foure Churches The day before we embarqued Aug. 25 there came two more of our company from Coro which was Miles Pet and Richard Farne Francisco Lopus procured vs passage in thrée seueral Ships Philip Glascocke Miles Pet and Richard Farne in the Ship called St. Bartholomew Richard Garrard in La Madre de Deos my selfe in La Santa Cruse So we were a moneth in sayling to the Hauanna which is neere thrée hundred Leagues from Carthagena Sep. 20. In the Hauanna we liued al ashore with eightéene pence a day for our dyet It is a place of great strength for it hath I. great Castle built vpō the Rocks at the entrance of the Harbour and another within on the other side which commaund all the Towne and Harbour And the thrée within the towne where Don Pedro de Valdes was Gouernor which was Prisoner in the Tower 1588. There they victualled the Flat and watered and repayred their shippes because they had no victuall to serue all the Fléete they left two ships there the out whereof was that wherein our three men were placed called the S. Bartholomew the other the S. Vincent And about the tenth of October wée departed for Spaine by the Bermouthos and shot the Gulfe of Florida in eight dayes against the wind and so w●● were nine weekes in sayling betwixt the Hauanna and the coast of Spaine the tempest and stormes wée had were wonderfull great in so much that all the Fléete were dispersed and not aboue two shippes did hold cōpany together which put them in great feare lest they should haue met with the Flemings who might with thrée good ships haue taken all their treasure with small adoe for euery little Caruill did put them in feare thinking her to be a man of warre And within thrée dayes before we came in sight of Spaine we ouertooke one of the company which had béene long wanting And the Master of the Santa Cruse wherein I was thinking to welcome her with a peale of Ordinance went himself without the ports to charge a peece and suddenly fell into the Sea and before we could bring the ship assayes he was drowned And vpon the fiftenth of December wée came against the barre of Saint Lucas but could not enter because the winde was contrarie Then came the Gallies out of Cales and towed vs into Cales where they vnloded the treasure This made well for vs which were prysoners for they were so busie with the Plate that they neuer regarded vs for when the Captaine and Souldiours were gone with it we went ashore to Cales without controulment And when I thought to haue béene secure the Captaine with whome I came home by chance met me in the stréete and called me to him and said that I did know how that I was deliuered vnto him as prisoner and willed me to come to him in Saint Lucas and there he would séeke a discharge for me And I promised him that I would come but afterward I feared that hee would haue deliuered me to the Iustice so not daring to trust him I neuer came in his fight more but sought all meanes for my passage which I found harder to get then when I was in the Indies for our owne Coūtrimen would answer vs that they would not in danger themselues to take vs without we had a discharge from the Spaniards Whose vncomfortable speeches did much dismay vs so we remained in Cales in Saint Lucas and in Siuill without any hope of passage one moneth and more at the charge of Iohn Frendgeham William Gourdon Ioh Dane who was chiefe Trumpeter of the Spanish Fléete and Iohn Painter a Musician And at the last despayring of passage M. Garrard got passage for Sandwitch And my selfe made moane to Master Barwicke Master of a little Ship of Welles in Norfolke called The George who at the first word graunted mée passage So on the second day of February 1606. hee landed me safely at the Downes in Kent giuing me two shillings to bring me to London FINIS