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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35938	Gods protecting providence, man's surest help and defence in the times of the greatest difficulty and most imminent danger evidenced in the remarkable deliverance of divers persons from the devouring waves of the sea, amongst which they suffered shipwrack : and also from the more cruelly devouring jawes of the inhumane canibals of Florida / faithfully related by one of the persons concerned therein, Jonathan Dickenson.	Dickinson, Jonathan, 1663-1722.	1699 (1699)	Wing D1389; ESTC R13049	66,852	110

Sea-shoar along to the North-ward They returned to us and We with our two Boats rowed all day without ceasing till Sunsetting And when we putt on sho●ar the place we an old Indian-Field on a high bleak hill where had been a large Indian house but it was tumbled down Of the runis of this house We made a shelter against the North-West Wind which began to blow very bleak The Spaniard went to the Sea which was not two miles off to see if our People had passed and at his return he said They were gone by We asked if they could reach to any house or Indian-Town for shelter For We supposed should they be without Fire this night they could not live He said They must travell all Night Night came on We had Fire and Wood enough and had gathered a great heap of ●rass to lie in hoping to have gott some rest But the North-West increased and the Cold was so violent that we were in a lamentable condition not able to rest for as We lay or stood so close to the Fire that it would scorch us that side from it was ready to Freeze We had no other way but to stand and keep turning for the most part of the night We all thought that we never felt the like The Spaniard that was clothed was as bad to bear it as we that were naked att length day appeared and we must goe the 9 month 13. the 6 of the week This Morning we were loth to part with our fires but to stay here it could not be So we went to our Boats wading in the water was ready to benumm us But we putt forward and rowing about 2 Leagues came to an old house where the Spaniard told us we must leave the Boats and travell by Land We had a Boggy Marsh to wade through for a mile to gett to the Sea-Shoar and had about five or six leagues along the Bay or Strand to the Spanish Sentinall's house The North-West-wind was violent and the cold such that the strongest of us thought We should not out-live that day having gott through the boggy Marsh and on the Sea-Shoar our People Black and White made all speed one not staying for another that could not travel so fast None but I with my Wife and Child Robert Barrow my kinsman Benjamin Allen and my Negroe London whom I kept to help carry my Child keeping together The rest of our Company had left us expectting not to see some of us again especially Robert Barrow my VVife and Child VVe travelled after as vvel as vve could having gone about tvvo Mil●s the Cold so seized on my Kinsman Benjamin Allen that he began to be stiff in his Limbs and staggered and fell grievously complaining that the cold vvould kill him Our Negroe having our young Child I and my VVife took our Kinsman under each Arm and helped him along but art length his Limbs vvere quite stiff his speech almost gone and he began to Foom at Mouth In this strait VVe knevv not vvhat to doe to stay vvith him vve must perish also and VVe vvere vvilling to strive as long as VVe could VVe carried our Kinsman and laid him under the Bank not being dead I resolved to ruim after our People some of them not being out of sight vvhich I did and lett my VVi●e and Child vvith the Negroe to follovv as fast as they could I runn about tvvo miles making signs to them thinking if they should look behind them and see me running they vvould stopp till I gott up vvith them I vvas in hopes that if I could have accomplished this my design to have gott help to have carried my Kinsman along But they stop not and I runn untill the Wind pierced me so that my Limbs failed and I fell yet still I strove and getting up vvalked backvvards to meet my VVife As I was goying I mett with the Spaniard comeing out of the Sand-hills and Joseph Kirle● Negroe Ben. I made my Complaint to the Spaniard but he not being able to understand me well went forward I than apply'd my self to the Negroe making large promises if he would fetch my Kinsman he offered to go back and use his endeavour VVhich he did At lenght my VVife and Child came up with me She vvas almost overcome VVith grief expressing in VVhat manner VVe VVere forced to part VVith our Kinsman and expecting that she and the Child should goe next Poor Robert Barrow was a great way behind us I feared We sould never see him again I used my endeavour to comfort and cheere my Wife intreating her not to let grief overcome her I had hopes that the Lord would help us in this strait as He hath done in many since We were in this Land And if it pleased God that We might lay down our lives in this Wilderniss that We might beseech Him to enable us to do it willingly Thus striving in a deep Exercise of Body and Mind We travelled on admiring Gods goodness in preserving us thus farr through so many eminent Dangers In the sence of which a secret hope would arise though invol●ed with human doubts and fear thar the Lord would yet preserve ●s I took my Child from the Negroe and carried him I had an Indian-Matt with a splitt in it through which I putt my head hanging over my Breast unto my Wast Under this I carried my Child which helpe't to break the wind off it but the poor Babe was black with cold from head to foot and its flesh as cold as a stone yet it was not forward It 's Mother would take it now and then and give it the Breast but little could it gett att it besides We dared not stopp in the least for if we did We should perceive our Limbs to fail About two a Clock in the Afternoon we came up with our Negroe-Woman Hagar with her Child att her back almost dead and a little further we came up with out Negroe-Girle Quenza being Dead as we thought for she was as stiff as a dead body could be and her Eyes sett butt at lenght we perceived her breath but she had no sence nor motion We carried her from the Waterside under the Bank This increased my Wife ssorrow and she began to doubt she should not be able to travell much further But I endeavoured to incourage her not to leave striving as long as any ability was left All our People were out of sight exept Four and those We had gained upon I sent my Negroe to overtake them and to disire them to slacken their pace till we gott up with them being in hopes that gaining their Company would to cheere up my Wife But they would not so the Negroe stopt for us We had lost sight of Robert Barrow by this time Soon after we overtook John Smith who was one of the Four he began to ●ail and his Companions left him whereupon he made grievous Complaints which I reproved him for left he should