The 25th of the Seventh Month; the 6th Day of the Week.

This Morning, having purpoſed to endeavour for Liberty to paſs to the Northward, Solomon opened the Matter to the Caſſekey; who anſwered, we muſt go to his Town to the South-ward.

This occaſioned us to go for Santa Lucea (this Place having a Spaniſh Name, ſuppoſed to have found it under the Government of that Nation, whence we might expect Relief) But the Caſſekey told us, That it was about two or three Days Joueney thither; and that, when we came there, we ſhould have our Throats and Scalps cut; and be Shot, burn'd and Eaten. We thought that Information was but to divert us, ſo that we were more earneſt to go; but he ſternly denied us, ſaying, We muſt go to his Town.

About Eight a Clock this Morning, the Caſſekey came into our Tent, and ſet himſelf amongſt us, asking the old Queſtion, Nickaleer, Nickaleer? Directing his Speech to one particular of us, who in Simplicity anſwered, Yes. Which cauſed the Caſſekey to ask in the ſaid Perſon, if another Perſon, which he pointed to was Nickaleer? He anſwered, Yes. Then he ſaid, To • os (or all) Nickaleer; and went from among us: Returning in a ſhort Time, with ſome of his Men with him, and a freſh they went greedily to ſtrip my Wife and Child, Robert Barrow, and our Maſter, who had eſcaped till now. Thus were we left almoſt Naked, till the Feud was ſomething abated; and then we got ſome-what from them, which diſpleaſed ſome of them. We then cut our Tents in Pieces, and got the moſt of our Clothing out of it; which the Indians perceiving, took the Remains from us. We Men had moſt of us Breeches, and Pieces of Canvas; and all the Company interceded for my Wife, ſo that all was not taken from her. About Noon, the Indians having removed all their Plunder off the Bay, and many of them gone; a Guard was provided, arm'd with Bows and Arrows, with whom we were ſummoned to march; and a Burden provided for every one to carry, that was any ways able. Our Maſter, with his broken Leg, was help'd along by his Negro Ben. My Wife was forced to carry her Child, they not ſuffering any of us to relieve her. But if any of us offered to lay down our Burden, we were threatened to be ſhot. Thus were we forced along the Beach bare-footed.

We had ſaved one of the Maſter's Quadrants, and Sedmens Calender, with two other Books. As we walked along the Bay (the Time ſuiting) our Mate, Richard Limpeney, took an Obſervation, and we found our ſelves to be in the Latitude of twenty ſeven Degrees and eight Minutes: Some of the Indians were offended at it; when he held up his Quadrant to obſerve, one would draw an Arrow to ſhoot him; but it pleaſed God hitherto to prevent them from ſhedding any of our Blood.

One Paſſage I have omitted: Two of our Marriners, named Thomas Fowns and Richard Limpany, went forth this Morning, from our Tent, down to the Bay where the Indians were, and viewing of them at ſome Diſtance, an Indian-Man came runing upon them, with his Knife in his Hand took hold of Thomas Fowns to ſtab him; but the ſaid Thomas fell on his Knees, uſing a Spaniſh Ceremony, and begged not to kill him, whereupon the Indian deſiſted, and bid him be gone to the Place from whence he came. The ſaid Thomas at his Return, acquainted us how narrowly he had eſcaped.

After we had travelled about five Miles along the deep Sand, the Sun being extream hot, we came to an Inlet: On the other ſide was the Indian-Town, being little Wigwams, made of ſmall Poles ſtuck in the Ground, which they bended one to another, making an Arch, and covered them with Thatch of ſmall Palmetto Leaves: Here we were commanded to ſit down, and the Caſſekey came to us, who with his Hand, ſcratched a Hole in the Sand, about a Foot deep, and came to Water, which he made Signs for us to come and Drink, we being extream Thirſty, did, but the Water was almoſt Salt: Whilſt we ſat here, we ſaw great Fires making on the other Side of the Inlet, which ſome of us thought was preparing for us. After an Hours Time being ſpent here, at length came an Indian with a ſmall Cannoo from the other Side, and I, with my Wife and Child, and Robert Barrow, were ordered to go in; the ſame Cannoo was but juſt wide enough for us to ſit down in; over we were carried, and being landed, the Man made Signs for us to walk to Wigwams, which we did; but the young Indians would ſeem to be frightned, and fly from us. We were directed to a Wigwam, which, afterwards we underſtood to be the Caſſekey's: It was about a Man's height to the Top; herein was the Caſſekey's Wife, and ſome old Women, ſitting on a Cabbin, made of Sticks, about a Foot high, covered with a Mat, they made Signs for us to ſit down on the Ground, which we did: The Caſſekey's Wife having a young Child ſucking at her Breaſt, gave it to another Woman, and would have my Child, which my Wife was very loath to ſuffer; but ſhe would not be denyed, took our Child and ſuckled it at her Breaſt, viewing and feeling it from Top to Toe, at length returned it to my Wife; and by this Time was another Parcel of our People come over; and ſitting down by the Wigwam Side, our Indian brought a Fiſh boiled, on a Palmetto Leaf, and ſet it down amongſt us, making Signs for us to Eat; but our Exerciſe was too great for us to have any Inclination to receive Food; at length our People were brought over, and afterwards came the Caſſekey: As ſoon as he came to his Wigwam, he ſet himſelf to work, got ſome ſtakes, and ſtuck them in a row, joyning to his Wigwam, and tyed ſome Sticks, whereon were theſe ſmall Palmettos, tyed and faſtned them to the ſtakes, about three Foot high, and layed two or three Mats made of Reeds down by his Shelter; which, it ſeems, he made for us, to break the Wind off us, and ordered us to lye down there, which we did, as many as the Mats would hold, the reſt lay on the Ground by us; the Caſſekey went into his Wigwam, and ſeated himſelf on his Cabin croſs-legged; having a Basket of Palmetto Berries brought him, which he eat very greedily; after which, came ſome Indians unto him, and talk'd much; Night come on; the Moon being up, an Indian, who performeth their Ceremonies, ſtood out, looking full at the Moon, making a hideous Noiſe, and crying out, acting like a Mad-man for the Space of half an Hour, all the Indians being ſilent till he had done; after which, they all made a fearful Noiſe, ſome like the Barking of a Dogg, or Wolf, and other ſtrange Sounds: After this, one gets a Logg, and ſets himſelf down, holding the ſtick of Logg upright on the Ground, and ſeveral others getting about him, made a hideous Noiſe, ſinging to our Amazement; at length their Women joyned Concort, making the Noiſe more terrible, this they continued till Midnight. Towards Morning was great Dews: Our Fire being expended, we were extream cold.

This Morning the Caſſekey looking on us with a mild Aſpect, ſent his Son with a ſtriking Staff to the Inlet, to ſtrike Fiſh for us, which was performed with great Dexterity, for ſome of us walked down with him, and though we looked very earneſtly when he threw • is Staff from him, could not ſee a Fiſh, at which Time he ſaw it, and brought it on Shore on the End of his Staff. Sometimes he would run ſwiftly purſuing a Fiſh, and ſeldom miſt when he darted at him. In two Hours Time he got as many Fiſh as would ſerve twenty Men: There were others alſo Fiſhing at the ſame Time, ſo that Fiſh was plenty; but the ſenſe of our Conditions, ſtayed our hungry Stomachs, for ſome amongſt us thought they would feed us, to feed themſelves.

The Caſſekey went this Morning towards our Veſſel in his abſence the other Indians looked very untowardly upon us, which created a Jealouſie of their Cruelty yet to come. This Afternoon we ſaw a great Fire nigh the Place of our Veſſel; whereupon we concluded, that our Veſſel and our Boat were Burn'd: Whereupon we were almoſt confirmed that they deſigned to deſtroy us. About Sun-ſetting the Caſſekey came home; we ſpake to him, he anſwered us, and ſeemed very affable, which we liked well: Night drawing on, and the Wind ſhifting Northward, we removed our Shelter, and added the Mats to it to break the Wind off us, which blowed cold, and laid our ſelves on the Sand. About an Hour within Night came a parcel of Indians from the Southward, being all arm'd with Bow and Arrows, and coming near our Tent, ſome of us eſpyed them, whereupon they ſquatted down: This ſeemed a freſh Token of Danger, and we awaked thoſe of us that where fallen a ſleep, and bid them prepare, for things ſeemed dangerous, we ſuppoſing they were come to forward our Deſtruction, or to carry us to the Southward; they ſat thus a conſiderable Time; at length they diſtributed themſelves to the Wigwam: Thus would Danger often appear unto us, and almoſt ſwallow us up; but at Times we ſhould be ſet over it, having a ſecret Hope, that God would work our Deliverance, having preſerved us in ſo many Perils.

Sometime before Night, Robert Barrow was exhorting us to be patient, and in a Godly Manner did he expound that Text of Scripture, Becauſe 〈…〉 kept the Word of my Patience, Rev. 3.10 After 〈…〉 • ded with a moſt fervent Prayer, deſiring 〈…〉 that whereas he had ſuffered us to be caſt 〈…〉 Barbarous and Heatheniſh People, if that it 〈…〉 bleſſed Will, He would preſerve and deliver us 〈◊〉 amongſt them, that our Names might not be buried in Oblivion, and that he might lay his Body amongſt Faithful Friends; And at the cloſe of his Prayer, he ſeem'd to have an Aſſurance that his Petition would be granted; in all which, ſome of us were livingly refreſhed and ſtrengthened.

The 27th of the 7th Month; the 1ſt of the Week,

This Morning we again uſed our Endeavours with the Caſſekey, that we might go to the Northward for Auguſteen; his Anſwer was, We ſhould be all kill'd, but at length we prevailed, and he ſaid on the Morning we ſhould go: Hereupon, he took three Negro-Men (one of Joſeph Kirle's, and two of mine) and with a Cannoo went up the Sound

This Day the Indians were buſie with what they had taken out of our Veſſel, and would have imployed all of us to do, ſome one thing, ſome another, for them; but we not knowing the Conſequence endeavoured to ſhun it, and would deny their demands. But ſome of our Men did anſwer their deſires in making and ſewing ſome Cloth together, ſtringing our Beds, mending of Locks, of the Chefts, &c. What ever they thought was a-miſs they would be putting upon us to mend, till we wholly refuſed; at which Time I heard a ſaving, that came from one of the Chief Indians, thus (Engliſh Son of a Bitch) which Word ſtartted me; for I did believe they had had ſome of our Nation in their Poſſeſſion, of whom they had heard ſuch an Expreſſion • : I paſſed away from the Wigwam in much trouble.

This Day being the firſt of the Week, we having a large Bible, and a Book of Robert Barclay's, ſome one or other was often reading in them: But being moſt of us ſat together, Robert Barrow deſired our People to wai • 〈…〉 ; in which Time Robert had a Word in 〈…〉 us, and afterwards went to Prayer, all the 〈…〉 Mocking, but not to our Diſturbance: The 〈◊〉 • rt ſtood very modeſtly the whole Time: After ••• yer ended, they all withdrew quietly: But ſome of the (eſpecially the Caſſekey's eldeſt Son) would take great delight in our Reading, and would take the Bible, or other Book, • nd give to one or other to read; the Sound of which pleaſed them; for they would ſit quietly, and • ery attentively, to hear us.

The Caſſekey having been gone the moſt Part of the Day, with three Negroes in our Boat coming over the Bar into the Inlet: We rejoiced to ſee Our Boat, for we thought ſhe had been burn'd. Our Negroes told us, they went up the Sound with the Caſſekey and landed near the Place where our Tent had been: The chief Buſineſs was, to remove the Money from one Place to another, and bury it. This old Man would truſt our People, but not his own. After that was done, they went to the Place where our Veſſel was burn'd: They lanched our Boat, in which the old Caſſekey put his Cheſts, wherein was our Linnen, and other of our Things. Alſo they got a ſmall Runlet, which they filled with Wine out of a Quarter-Cask that was left; and brought Sugar out of the Wreck, which was not conſumed with the Fire. By this Time came the Caſſekey, and other Negro, in the Cannoo. He told us, on the Morrow we ſhould go with our Boat: This was chearful News unto us. All the Time ſome Indians had been out, and brought home ſome Oyſters; and the Caſſekey gave us ſome, bidding us, take what we had Mind to. A little before Night, the Caſſekey opened his Cheſt and and Boxes: And his Wife came, and took what was in them from him. But he ſeem'd very generous to my Wife and Child, and gave her ſeveral Things which were uſeful to her and our Child.

Our Boat was very Leaky, ſo that we got her into a Creek to ſink her, that the Water might ſwell her.

The 28th of the 7th Month; the 2d Day of the Week.

This Morning we waited an Opportunity to get leave to depart, which was granted us. Whereupon we asked for ſuch Things as they did not make uſe of viz▪ a great Glaſs, wherein was five or ſix pound of Butter, ſome Sugar, the Rundlet of Wine, and ſome Balls of Chocolate; All which was granted us, alſo a Bowle to heave Water out of the Boat: But the Caſſekey would have a Negro Boy of mine, named Caeſar, to which I could not tell what to ſay; but he was reſolved on it. We got down to the Water-Side, and ſent all our People over that were to Travel; And Joſeph Kirle, Robert Barrow, I, my Wife and Child, with two of our Marriners went in the Boat, and rowed along Shore Northwards, but the Caſſekey would have us to have gone with our Boat up the Sound: We ſuppoſed the Sound was a great River, and therefore were not willing to take his Advice, having no Knowledge; but his Counſel was good, as we found afterwards, for the Conveniency of Paſſage.

The Caſſekey, and ſome other Indians, went with our People towards our Wreck, we rowing along Shore, and our Boat very leaky, that one Perſon had employ enough to heave out the Water.

Juſt before we left the Indians-Town, ſeveral Indians were for taking the little Cloths and Rags we had got; but calling out to the Caſſekey, he would cauſe them to let us alone.

Solomon Creſſon was mightly in one Indian's Favour, who would hardly ſtir from his Wigwam but Solomon muſt be with him, and go Arm in Arm; which Indian, amongſt his Plunder, had a Morning-Gown, which he put on Solomon, and Solomon had worn it moſt of the Time we were there; but when the Time of our Departure came, an Indian unrob'd him, and left only a pair of Breeches and ſeem'd very angry.

It was high Noon when we left our Wreck (ſhe being burn'd down to her Floor-Timbers which lay in the Sand) we ſetting forward, ſome in the Boat, the reſt travelled along Shore; and a little before Sunſetting our People came up with Abundance of ſmall Fiſh that had been forced on Shore, as we may ſuppoſe, by the Storm that drove us a Shore (they lying far from the Water and being much tainted) covered the Shore for nigh a Mile in length, of which our People gathered as many as they could carry: About Sunſetting we put on Shore to refreſh our ſelves, and take a ſmall Reſpite, alſo to take my Kinſman, Benjamin Allen, into our Boat; For this Afternoon, in his Travel, he was taken with a Fever and Ague, and we had much Trouble to get him along, he having been ſick nigh unto Death (being firſt taken, the Day before we left Blewfield's Roads) until about a Week before we were caſt away.

One of my Negroes had ſaved a Tinder-box and Flint, and we had reſerved two Knives, by which means we got a Fire, though with much difficulty, for our Tinder was bad, and all the Wood Salt-Water-Soaken; which being accompliſhed, we broiled all our Fiſh, feeding heartily on ſome of them, and the reſt we kept, not knowing when we ſhould be thus furniſhed again; for which, ſome of us were • y thankful to the God of all our Mercies.

Having a large Fire, many of us got under the Lee of it; and others buried themſelves in the Sand, in Hopes to get a little ſleep, that we might be ſomewhat refreſhed, and thereby be the better enabled, ſome to travel, and ſome to Row, the remaining part of the Night; but the Sand-Flies, and Musketoes, were ſo extream thick, it was impoſſible: The Moon Shining, we launced our Boat, I, and my Wife, and Child, the Maſter, Robert Barrow, my Kinſman Allen, Solomon Creſſon, Joſeph Buckley, and the Maſter's Negro, went in our Boat, the reſt travelled along Shore: About midnight, or a little after, our People came by an Indian-Town; the Indians came out in a great Number, but offered no Violence, more than endeavouring to take from them what little they had; but making ſome ſmall reſiſtance, the Indians were put by their purpoſe: They were very deſirous to have us come on ſhore, and would hale us, but our People would have us keep off: We were got among a parcel of Breakers, and ſo had much a do to get out to Sea

The 29th of the 7th Month; the 3d of the Week.

This Morning about Sun-riſing we ſtood in for the Land, and looked out for our People, but could not ſee them, therefore we lay by for the ſpace of two Hours, and at length ſaw them coming along and a great many Indians with them. When they came a breaſt of us, the Indians waſted us a ſhore, but we refuſed, perceiving they were wickedly bent; they would be ever and anon ſnatching one thing or other▪ at which time our People would point to us in the Boat; but perceiving they could not get us aſhore, in ſome few Hours left them.

This Day at Noon, Joſeph Kirle having his Quadrant and Calendar, took an Obſervation, being in the Latitude of 27 Deg. 45 Min. About one a Clock we ſaw two Indians, with Bows and Arrows, running to meet our People; who, when they ſaw them, at firſt they made a halt, and afterwards retreated, at which the Indians let fly an Arrow, which narrowly eſcaped one of them; whereupon they ſtopp'd, the Indians look'd ſtrangely on them, but our People ſet forwards, and the Indians with them, until they came to the Indian-Town: We ſaw our People go into the Wigwams, but ſtayed a very ſhort time, for the Indians were for taking thoſe pieces of Canvas they had, from them. They got ſome Water and ſet forward again; the two Indians ſtill followed them▪ About this Time we ſaw a Sail to the Eaſtward, and we ſuppoſing it at firſt to be a Brigantius, agreed to follow her; but in a ſmall Time, we made it to be a Cannoo or Boat, with two Maſts and Sail: She ſtood in for the Shore, but as ſoon as they eſpyed us, ſhe bore away; and when ſhe ſaw we made not after her, ſhe ſtood aſhore again for the Indian-Town; hereupon a Jealouſie got amongſt us, that ſhe might go on Shore, and get ſtrong with Men, and come after us, whereupon we rowed very hard, and kept an offing for ſome Hours; but finding they came not out, we ſtood towards the Shore again. This Day was extream hot, and we had no Water ſince we left the Indian-Town, to the Southward of our Wreck, called by the Name of Hoe-Bay, therefore we were deſirous to get on Shore; but when we endeavoured it we could not, for the Seas ſwelled very much, and came rowling from the Eaſtward, ſo that the Seas run very hollow, and broke almoſt a Mile from the Shore; our Maſter ſaid, It was impoſſible to get on ſhore alive: But I being under ſome Exerciſe, was deſirous to be on Shore, and thereupon did expreſs my ſelf to the reſt of our People, they ſtarted the Danger, all which I was as ſenſible of as they; yet I could not reſt, but inſiſted on going a ſhore: The Maſter and Men ſaid, We ſhould not ſave our lives: But I gained ſo far, that they attempted, and were got within half a Mile of a ſhore; but the Seas came on us ſo large and hollow, that one Sea had like to have overwhelmed us, we juſt got a Top of it, before it broke; there was then no perſwading them to go further, but we ſtood off, and deſigned to keep off all Night, our People being very weary, and the Sun ſetting, we divided one half to get ſome Sleep, the other to watch, and keep the Boat's head to the Sea. The weather looked as though it would be bad, and the Sea increaſed, whereupon I began a-freſh to perſwade them to go on ſhore; all were deſirous, but thought it impoſſible; at length we reſolved to venture, and ſo committing our ſelves to the Protection of the Almighty God, We ſtood in for the ſhore, and made Signs to our People that we deſigned it. And it pleaſed God to order it ſo, that we went on ſhore, as though there had been a Lane made through the Breakers, and were carried to the Top of the Bank, where we got aged Robert Barrow, my Wife and Child out of the Boat, before ever a Sea came to fill us; which it did, as ſoon as they were got out: But we got our Boat up from the waſh of the Sea.

The two Indians were for taking off our Clothes, (which would not cover our Bodies) but we not being willing to yield, they would ſnatch a piece from one, and a bit from another, and run away with that, and than come again and do the like. Theſe two Indians took away what was given to my Wife and Child, which we knew not how to help, but exerciſed Patience.

We enquired how far it was from St. Lucia (one of them ſpeaking a little Spaniſh) and by Signs we underſtood it was not far. They made Signs that when we came there, we ſhould be put to moſt cruel Death, but we hoped otherwiſe.

At this Place, within the Land, and over the Sound, our People ſaid, before it was dark, they ſaw two or three Houſes which looked white, as tho' they were plaiſtered with Lime, which put us in hopes that there were Spaniards there; ſo we ſet forwards, as the Indians directed, for St. Lucia; they made Signs that we ſhould come to an Inlet of the Sea, and on the other ſide was St. Lucia. We travelled about four Miles, and came to an Inlet, but ſaw no Settlement on the other ſide, ſo we concluded to lye there all night: We ſaw the tract of a large Bear, and other wild Beaſts whereupon we ſet to work to get Wood, and then a Fire: Abundance of Muskittoes and Sand-flyes hindred our Reſt; to Remedy which, we digged holes in the Sand, got ſome Graſs, and laid it therein to lye upon, in order to cover ourſelves from the Flyes, which moſt of us did; but it being extream Cold, and Firing 〈◊〉 , we had little Comfort.

About Mid-night we ſent our People to ſee if they could get off our Boat, and bring it into the Inlet that we might get over to the other ſide: They went and Launched her but the Sea was ſo rough, that there was no poſſibility of getting her off; for ſhe was ſoon filled, and they put to ſwim; and they, Boat and all, were driven on Shore again.

Whilſt our People were gone for the Boat, we eſpied ſome Indian in a Cannoo, with their Torch, a Fiſhing; we ſent for Solomon, (who was gone to Launch the Boat) expecting they would come, ſeeing Fires, and we ſhould not tell what to ſay to them; but they did not. Here we lay watching, for no reſt could be taken.

The 30th of the 7th Month; the 2d Day of the Week.

This Morning, by break of Day, we ſaw a ſmall Cannoo from the other ſide, put off Shore, with two Indians in her, going up the River (or Sound) a Fiſhing. We hailed them in Spaniſh, and as ſoon as they heard and ſaw us, they made to the Shore with all ſpeed, and away to their Town they run. We, perceiving they were ſhy of us, began to doubt of their Amity, which we had ſo much depended on; whereupon we counſelled our People how to deport themſelves, eſpecially our Negroes. About Sun-riſing we ſaw the Indians coming, running in a very great Number, with their Bows and Arrows, to the Inlet; where, having five or ſix Cannoos, they got into them, as many as thoſe Cannoos could hold; others took the Water, and ſwam over unto us: They came in the greateſt Rage that poſſibly a Barbarous People could. Solomon began to ſpeak Spaniſh to them; but they anſwered not till they came a Shore, ſome diſtance from us; and then coming running upon us, they cryed out, Nickaleer, Nickaleer? We ſat all ſtill, expecting Death, and that in a moſt barbarous Manner They that did ſpeak unto them could not be heard: But they ruſhed violently on us, rending and tearing thoſe few Clothes we had; they that had Breeches had ſo many about them, that they hardly touched the Ground, till they were ſhaken out of them; they tore all from my Wife; and eſpying her Hair-Lace, ſome were going to cut the Hair, away to get it; but, like greedy Dogs, another ſnatched and tore it off. As for our poor young Child, they ſnatched from it what little it had, as though they would have ſhaken and torn it, Limb from Limb. After they had taken all from us but our Lives, they began to talk one to another, vehemently Foaming at the Mouth, like wild Boars, and taking their Bows and Arrows, with other Weapons, cryed out, Nickaleer, Nickaleer, Solomon ſpake in Spaniſh to them, and ſaid, We were Spaniards: But they would not hear him, and continued crying out Nickaleer, Nickaleer; withal drawing their Arrows to the Head. But ſuddenly we perceived them to look about and liſten, and then deſiſted to proſecute their bloody Deſign. One of them took a pair of Breeches, and gave it to my Wife. We brought our great Bible, and a large Book of Robert Barclay's, to this Place. And being all ſtripped as Naked as we were born, and endeavouring to hide our Nakedneſs, theſe Canibals took the Books, and tearing out the Leaves, would give each of us a Leaf to cover us; which we took from them: At which Time they would deride and ſmite us, and inſtantly another of them would ſnatch away what the other gave us, ſmiting and deriding us withal.

Robert Barrow, with my ſelf, Wife and Child, were ordered to go into a Cannoo, to be carried to the other Side of the Inlet, being a Furlong over; four Indians being in the Cannoo to paddle: When we came to the other Side, within a Cannoo's length of two of the Shore, a Number of Indians, with their Bows and Arrows, came running into the Water, ſome to their Knees, ſome deeper, having their Bows and Arrows drawn up, crying out, Nickaleer, Nickaleer; which they continued without ceaſing. The Indians that brought us over leap'd out of the Cannoo, and ſwam a Shore, fearing they ſhould be ſhot. But in this Juncture it pleaſed God to tender the Hearts of ſome of them towards us, eſpecially the Caſſekey's Wife, and ſome of the chiefeſt amongſt them, who were made Inſtruments to intercede for us, and ſtop the Rage of the Multitude, who ſeem'd not to be ſatisfy'd without our Blood. The Caſſeekey ordered ſome to ſwim, and fetch the Cannoo a Shore; which being done, his Wife came in a Compaſſionate Manner and took my Wife out of the Cannoo, ordering her to follow her, which we did ſome diſtance from the Inlet Side, and ſtood till all our People were brought over, which in a little Time was done. But the Rage of ſome was ſtill great, thirſting to ſhed our Blood; and a mighty Strife there was amongſt them; ſome would kill us, others would prevent it: And thus one Indian was ſtriving with another. All being got over, were to walk along the Sea-Shore to their Town. In this Paſſage we, moſt of us, felt the Rage of ſome of them, either by ſtriking or ſtoning; and divers Arrows were ſhot: But thoſe that were for Preſerving us, would watch thoſe that were for deſtroying us: And when ſome of them would go to ſhoot, others of them would catch hold of their Bows or Arms. It was ſo ordered, that not one of us was touched with their Arrows; ſeveral of us were knock'd down, and ſome tumbled into the Sea; we dared not help one another, but help we had by ſome of them, being made inſtrumental to help us. My Wife received ſeveral Blows; and an Indian came and took hold of her Hair, and was going either to cut her Throat, or ſomething like it, having his Knife nigh her Throat; but I looked at him, making a ſign that he ſhould not; ſo he deſiſted. At which Time another Indian came, with a handful of Sea-Sand, and filled our poor Child's Mouth. By this Time the Caſſekey's Wife, came to my Wife, ſeeing her oppreſſed, and they pulled the Sand out of our Child's Mouth, and kept by my Wife untill we got into the Caſſakey's Houſe, which was about Forty Foot long, and Twenty-five Foot wide, covered with Palmetto Leaves both Top and ſides. There was a Range of Cabbins, or a Barbecue, on one ſide and two Ends: At the entering on one Side of the Houſe, a Paſſage was made of Benches on each Side, leading to the Cabbins. On theſe Benches ſat the chief Indians, and at the upper End of the Cabbin was the Caſſekey ſeated. A kind of Debate was held amongſt them for an Hour's Time. After which Solomon, and ſome others were called to the Caſſekey, and were ſeated on the Cabbin; where the Caſſekey talked to Solomon in the Spaniſh Language, but could not hold a Diſcourſe. In a little Time ſome raw Deer-Skins were brought in, and given to my Wife, and Negro-Women; and to us Men ſuch as the Indians wear, being a Piece of Platt-work of a kind of Silk-Graſs wrought of divers Colours, and of a triangular Figure, with a Belt of four Fingers broad of 〈◊〉 ſame, wrought together, which goeth about the Waſte▪ and the Angle of the other having a thing to it, coming between the Legs; and Strings to the Ends of the Belt. All three meeting together, are faſtned behind with a Horſe-Tail, or a Bunch of Silk-Graſs, exactly reſembling it▪ of a Flaxen Colour. This being all the Apparel or Covering that the Men wear; and thus they Clothed us▪ A Place was appointed for us, Mats being laid on the Floor of the Houſe, where we were ordered to lye down. But the Place was extreame naſty; for all the Stones of the Berries which they eat, and all the Naſtneſs that's made amongſt them, lay on their Floor, that the Place ſwarmed with abundance of many Sorts of creeping things; as, a large black hairy Spider, which hath two Claws like a Carb, Scorpions, and numberleſs Number of ſmall Buggs. On theſe Mats we lay, theſe Vermin crawling over our naked Bodies. To bruſh them off, was like driving of Muſ • ittoes from one, where they are extreame thick. The Indians were ſeated, as aforeſaid, the Caſſekey at the upper End of them; and the Range of Cabbins was fill'd with Men, Women and Children, beholding us: At length we heard a Women or two cry, according to their Manner, and that very ſorrowfully, one of which I took to be the Caſſekey's Wife, which occaſioned ſome of us to think, that ſomething extraordinary was to be done to us. We heard a ſtrange Sort of a Noiſe, which was not like the Noiſe made by a Man, but we could not underſtand what, nor where it was; for ſometimes it ſounded to be in one Part of the Houſe, ſometimes in another, to which we had an Ear: And indeed our Ears and Eyes could perceive or hear nothing, but what was Strange and Diſmal, and Death ſeem'd to ſorround us; but Time diſcovered this Noiſe unto us. The Occaſion of it was thus: In one Part of this Houſe where the Fire was kept, was an Indian Man, having a Pot on the Fire, wherein he was making a Drink, of the Leaves of a Shrub (which we underſtood afterwards by the Spaniards is called Caſſeena) boyling the ſaid Leaves, after they had parched them in a Pot; then with a Gourd, having a long Neck, and at the Top of it a ſmall Hole, which the Top of one's Finger could cover, and at the Side of it a round Hole of two Inches Diameter; they take the Liquor out of the Pot, and put it into a deep • ound Bowl, which being almoſt filled, containeth nigh three Gallons: With this Gourd they brew the Liquor, and make it froth very much; it looketh of a deep brown Colour. In the Brewing of this Liquor was this Noiſe made, which we thought ſtrange; for the preſſing of this Gourd gently down into the Liquor, and the Air which is contained, being forced out of the little hole at Top, occaſioned a Sound, which according to the Time and motion given, would be various. This Drink, when made, and cool to Sup, was in a Conck-Shell, firſt carried to the Caſſekey, who threw Part of it on the Ground, and the reſt he drank up, and then would make a loud H • m; and afterwards the Cup paſſed to the reſt of the Caſſekey's Aſſociaties, as aforeſaid; but no other Man, Woman nor Child, muſt touch or taſte of this Sort of Drink; of which he ſat Sipping, Chattering and ſmoaking Tobacco, or ſome other Herb inſtead thereof, for the moſt Part of the Day.

About Noon was ſome Fiſh brought us on ſmall Palmetto Leaves, being boiled with Scales, Heads and Gills, and nothing taken from them but the Guts, but our Troubles and Exerciſe were ſuch, that we cared not for Food.

In the Evening, we being laid on the Place aforeſaid, the Indians made a Drum of a Skin, covering therewith the deep Bowl, in which they brewed their Drink, beating thereon with a Stick, and having a couple of Rattles, made of ſmall Gourds put on Sticks with ſmall Stones in, ſhaking them, they began to ſet up a moſt hideous howling, very irkſome to us, and ſometime after came ſome of their Young Women, ſome Singing, ſome Dancing. This was contined till Mid-night, after which they went to Sleep.

The 1ſt of the 8th Month; the 5th of the Week.

This Day the Caſſekey looking on us pleaſantly, made Preſents to ſome of us, eſpecially to my Wife; he gave her a Parcel of Shell-Fiſh, which are known by the Name of Clamms; one or two, he roaſted and gave her, ſhewing that ſhe muſt ſerve the reſt ſo, and eat them. The Indian Women would take our Child and Suckle it, for its Mother's Milk was almoſt gone, that it could not get a Meal: And our Child, which had been at Death's Door, from the Time of its Birth, until we were caſt away, began now to be Cheerful, and have an Appetite to Food; it had no covering but a ſmall Piece of raw Dear-Skin, not a Shred of Linen or Woolen to put on it.

About the tenth Hour, we obſerved the Indians to be on a ſudden Motion; moſt of the Principal of them betook themſelves to their Houſes; the Caſſekey went to Dreſſing his Head, and Painting himſelf, and ſo did all the reſt: When they had done, they came into the Caſſekey's Houſe, and ſeated themſelves in Order: In a ſmall Time after came an Indian with ſome Attendance into the Houſe, making a Ceremonious Motion, and ſeated himſelf by the Caſſekey, the Perſons that came with him ſeated themſelves amongſt the others: After ſome ſmall pauſe, the Caſſekey began a Diſcourſe, which held nigh an Hour; After which the Strange Indian and his Companions went forth to the Water-Side, unto their Cannoo, lying in the Sound, and returned preſently with ſuch Preſents as they had brought, delivering them unto the Caſſekey, and thoſe ſitting by giving an Applauſe. The Preſents were ſome few Bunches of the Herb they make their Drink of, and another Herb which they uſe inſtead of Tobacco, and ſome platted Balls, ſtuffed with Moſs, to lay their Heads on, inſtead of Pillows: The Ceremony being ended, they all ſeated themſelves again, and went to Drinking Caſſeena, Smoaking and Talking, during the Strangers ſtay.

About Noon ſome Fiſh was brought us; Hunger was grown ſtronger upon us, and the Quaintity given was not much more than each a Mouthful, which we Eat; The Caſſekey ordered the Maſter, Joſeph Kirle, Solomon Creſſon, my Wife and me, to ſit upon their Cabin to eat our Fiſh; and they gave us ſome of their Berries to Eat: We taſted them▪ but not one amongſt us could ſuffer them to ſtay in our Mouths, for we could compare the taſte of them to nothing elſe, but rotten Cheeſe ſteep'd with Tobacco. Sometime after we had eaten, ſome of the Indian, asked us, If we were Spaniards? Solomon anſwered them, Yes. Then ſome of the Indians would point to thoſe whoſe Hair was Black, or of a deep Brown, and ſay ſuch a one was a Spaniard of the Havana, and ſuch of Auguſteen; but thoſe whoſe Hair was of a light Colour, they were doubtful of; ſome would ſay they were no Spaniards.

About the third Hour in the Afternoon, the Strangers went away, and ſome ſmall Time after, they having ſatisfied themſelves that moſt of us were Spaniards, told us that we ſhould be ſent for to the next Town; and they told us that there was a Nickaleer off, and we underſtood them [Engliſh Men of Briſtol] alſo the Number of ſix Men and a Woman; and that they were to be put to Death before we ſhould get thither. We were ſilent, altho' much concerned to hear that Report: They alſo told us, that a Meſſenger would come for us, to direct us to the next Town, thence to Auguſteen. Night coming on, they betook themſelves to their accuſtomed Singing and Dancing.

About the tenth or twelfth Hour in the Night, before the Singing and Dancing was ended, came in a Stranger armed with Bow and Arrows; the Caſſekey and his Companions entertained him with half an Hours Diſcourſe, which ended, we were on a ſudden ordered to get up, and hurried away with this Stranger, they not giving us Time to ſee if we were altogether, and a Troop of young Indian-Men and Boys followed us for about four Miles, all which way they pelted us with Stones: At length they all left us except two and our Guide; but we miſſed Solomon Creſſon and Joſeph Kirle's Boy, and Negro Ben, which was no ſmall Trouble to us. We had not travelled above five Miles, before our Guide cauſed us to ſtop, and at ſome ſmall diſtance was an Indian-Town ▪ which I ſuppoſe our Guide belonged to; for Indians cam • thence with Fire and Water for him, and with Palmett • ▪ Leaves they made a blaſt of Fire; here we ſtayed nigh • two Hours: The Flies were very thick, and the Night very Cold, ſo that our naked Bodies were not able to endure it, but with Grief. At length we left the Place; the whole Night following we were troubled with theſe two young Indians, who at Times would be abuſing one or other of us, ſingling them out, and asking if they were not Nickaleer, or Engliſh? If they ſaid, nay, then they would hit them a Blow or more with a Truncheon, which they had; and ſaid, they were. We travelled all Night without ſtopping, from the aforeſaid Place.

The 2d of the 8th Month; the 6th Day of the Week.

After Sun-riſing, we came up with the Wreck of the Veſſel that we heard was caſt away. She was Staved all to Piece; for her Keelſon was driven a Shore. We ſaw Suger-Hogſheads, Ginger and Logwood, which gave us to ſuppoſe, that it was one of our Fleet; and we thought it to be either Borroughs or Smith, belonging to Briſtol. A Mile or more from hence we came to an Inlet; our Guide told us, we muſt ſwim over, except my Wife and Robert Barrow; but we ſignified that we could not: He carried Robert Barrow, Joſeph Kirle, Me, my Wife and Child, over firſt; and at length the whole Company: For it was a great way over. By that Time we were all over; the Day was hot, and my Wife quite tired and faint; as alſo Robert Barrow, and Joſeph Kirle, whoſe Leg was grown ſo painful, that it overcame him. We got under a Grape-Buſh for ſhelter from the Sun; I ſent one of my Negroes to ſeek for Water for them, but there was none to be had; but he got ſome Seaſide Grapes; which, with reſting, refreſh'd the Weak and Lame.

Our Guide was for forcing us forward; ſo we travelled about four or five Miles further, and met with the Caſſekey of this Town, and Commander of the Northern Part of this Coaſt. He was an ancient Man, his Beard and Hair gray: He enquired for the Captain, ſo our People pointed to Joſeph Kirle, whom he went to, and embraced him; then he asked for our Mate, or Pilot. This Man could ſpeak Spaniſh better than any we had met with; but not ſo well as to Diſcourſe, only to ask ſome Queſtions; and we had three or four amongſt us could make a ſhift to anſwer him; for Solomon was kept behind. This old Caſſekey ſeemed to have Compaſſion on us, and ſaid, That thoſe People, who had ſerved us thus, in ſtripping of us, were Rogoues: But we were his Comerades or Friends. Withal he ſaid, in few Days he would carry us to Augusteen; and thereupon he told us of ſix Engliſh-Men, and one Woman, being at his Town. We enquired, if he • ntended them for Auguſteen? But he would ſhake his Head, and point to the Southward, ſaying, Nickaleer no Comerade (Engliſhmen were not his Friends) Which Words were unpleaſant to us. This People kept us Company till we came within a Mile or two of their Town, and then they left us; they, going faſter, got in before us. Their Town ſtood about half a Mile from the Sea-Shore, within the Land, on the Sound, being ſurrounded with a Swamp, in which grew white Mangrove-Trees, which hid the Town from the Sea. We were directed to the Caſſekey's Houſe, which was large, and filled with Indians; and then ordered to ſit down. The old Caſſekey fetched ſome Water, and waſhed Robert Barrow's Feet, and my Wife's: After which he got ſome Canvas and Crocus Ginger-Bags, which they had got out of the Veſſel that was caſt on Shore, which was diſtributed among us. Joſeph Kirle had a Coat given him, which they had taken from the People of the other Veſſel, but it was rent down the back. My Wife had two Pieces of Sail-Canvas given her. And I, with others, had a Crocus Ginger-Bag. They gave a Piece of an old Check Linen Shirt, the Bigneſs of a ſmall Hankerchief, to cover our Child: This was all our Clothing. Robert Barrow and my Wife were quite ſpent with travelling barefooted on the hot Sand, having bruiſed their Feet; and with Stumps, Stones, and Prickles their Feet, eſpecially Robert Barrow's, had holes in them, that one might have put the Top of one's Thumb in. We were directed to lye down on a Cabin. The other Veſſel's Company were, one John Smith, Maſter of the Nan • witch, a Barque belonging to Briſtol, which came out of Jamaica with us, with five Men, and one Woman, viz. Andrew Murray, Merchant, Andrew Barnes, Mate, Hugh Allen, John Oſler, John Shears, and Cornelius Toker, Two Boys, and a Woman Paſſenger, named Penelope. We took an Opportunity to diſcourſe them. They were caſt away the ſame Night we were, and their Veſſel being forced by the Storm, (they not being able for two Days before to carry any Sail) on Shore; they got into their Boat, and ſo on Shore: And in a ſmall Time was a great Part of their Wreck driven on Shore; amongſt which was a Barrel or more of Water, ſome Barrels of Beef or Pork, with their Cheſts, and many other Things which they got. On the Morrow they deſigned to travel to the Northward: But Andrew Barnes, their Mate, having been along Time afflicted with a Flux, which had waſted his Body to Skin and Bone, ſo that he was not able to help himſelf, they left him, and travelled a Mile or more, and came to the Inlet, which they could not paſs: Whereupon they returned back again, to take their Boat; but at their Return, before they could get away with their Boat, they eſpyed the Indians coming on them, who ſoon got to them; asked in Spaniſh, What Nation they were? If Spaniards, Engliſh or French? But the Indians made Signs to give them their Clothing, which they readily did. But ſtill they enquired, Of what Nation? At firſt they anſwered Spaniards; but the Natives looked ſo furiouſly, that they ſoon anſwered them, Engliſh-Men. Thereupon every one had it, Nickaleer, Nickaleer. And then they very eagerly ſtripp'd them of all they had on: After which they drove them away to the Northward, unto their Town; but Andrew Barnes being not able to ſtand nor go, was left behind; after they had ſtripp'd him on the Land naked, when they were driven away. Before they got to the Town, the Indian Caſſe •• y gave them ſome Clothing, and no violence offered to their Perſons. They had plenty of Fiſh and Berries to the Time of our coming? John Smith and Andrew Murray had their Being in the Caſſekey's Houſe, and the Woman, named Penelope: The reſt of Smith's People lodged in other Indian-Houſes. But on our coming, the old Caſſekey told them, They muſt turn out, and make Room for the Spaniards: But Smith and Murray would not go; and the Indian did not force them out. In ſome Time after we had been in the Houſe, came in an Indian-Woman, loaden with Baſkets of Berries, moſtly of the Palm; ſome Sea-Side Coco-Plumbs, and Sea-Side Grapes. Of the two latter we could eat, but of the Palm Berries we could not bear the Taſte in our Mouths. We laid our ſelves on the Cabin, on that Part which was appointed us; on the other Part, the young Caſſekey or King, lay; being parted by a Cheſt that ſtood thereon. Before Night was a Parcel of large Fiſh, called Drumms, brought in; the old Caſſekey told Joſeph Kirle, That thoſe were for the Spaniards, and bid him let ſome-body dreſs them: He alſo ordered us a Pot. They were ſoon dreſs'd, and we eat them. Night being come, the old Caſſekey enquired after our Loſſes; which we, as well as we could, gave him to underſtand, that in our Veſſel was a great deal of Clothing and Money, which the Indians at Hoebay had taken from us! He underſtood ſo much of the Matter, that he grew covetous, and ſaid, he would go and get ſome of it from them.

About Midnight came Solomon Creſſon in a Cannoo, with two Indians: The old Caſſekey began to examine him concerning our Veſſel, Goods and Money, or Plate; of which Solomon render'd a further Account unto him, than we could: Which cauſed him to reſolve, on the Morrow to provide Men and Boats, and to go down the Sound to Hoebay, to have Part from them. He would have had Solomon to have gone with him, but Solomon refuſed.

We enquired of Solomon concerning his ſtay, and of the Negro Ben and Joſeph Kirle's Boy: He ſaid, that he was ſtayed by force; but the Negro and the Boy were aſleep in another Houſe when we were driven away. They had a deſign, in ſtaying of Solomon, which he could not rightly underſtand, but ſuppoſed, that they doubted that we were not all Spaniards; for the Indians of St. Lucia would ſay to Solomon, that he was a Spaniard, and ſome others, but the moſt of us were not Spaniards, and that they had ſtolen Solomon: But Solomon denyed it.

The 3th of the 8th Month; the 7th of the Week.

This Morning the Old Caſſekey with two Cannoos, and Ten Indians with him, went hence for Hoe-Bay: He promiſed, that as ſoon as he returned, he would carry us for Auguſteen; which he ſuppoſed would be in ſix Days, if he had good Weather: But this Day the Wind was got North-East, and it look'd as tho' the Weather would be Stormy: The Wind increaſed, and towards Eveninig the Water in the Sound did riſe, that it began to cover the Land, and came into the Houſes, but we had little or no Rain till Night; then the Wind increaſed and Rain alſo.

The 4th of the 8th Month; the 1st of the Week.

This Morning the Wind was violent with Rain; the King's Houſe was knee deep with Water, and like to continue riſing; I removed with my Wife, Child, Robert Barrow and Benjamin Allen, to an Indian-Hauſe that ſtood on a Hill of Oyſter-ſhells; in this Houſe we remained this Day: The Wind continuing at North-East very violent, and by Reaſon of much Rain, the Water riſing every Hour, the Indians began to put their dry Berries into their Cannoos, and to ſeek which way to ſecure them. Several Indians betook themſelves to their Boats and carried what they had to ſome high Land at a conſiderable Diſtance, where a Place was made for their Caſſekey or King; but before Day, the Houſe we were in was a Float, and the Indians were for turning us out, bidding us take an old Cannoo, that had a hole in the ſide of her, almoſt at the bottom, big enough for a Man to put his hand through, ſo that ſhe was full of Water; in this Cannoo they would have had us ſhift for our ſelves, but we were not willing to go; the Indians made ſigns for us to be gone divers times: At length they grew Angry, and took my Kinſman Allen into the Cannoo, and carried him away; in a little time after returned with the Cannoo, and bid me and Robert Barrow be gone: By this time day appeared, the Wind and Rain ſtill violent; I then ſaw a Houſe on another Oyſter-Hill that the Water was not got over yet; to which I got, and asked by ſigns if I might be there? The Indians ſeemed willing; ſo thither I got my Wife, Child, and Robert Barrow, and remained there. All this day the Wind was violent, it rained, and the Flood continued: We imagined that the Sea was broke in upon the Land, and that we ſhould be drowned. The Houſe was almoſt blown to pieces, and the Indians often tying and mending it. The chief Man of this Houſe cauſed his Wife to Suckle our Child, for it was almoſt famiſhed, its Mother having no Milk in her Breaſts for we had received no Suſtenance ſince the Storm began: Freſh Water was not to be had, the Land being covered with the Sea. The Indians offered us ſome of their Berries, which we endeavoured to eat; but could not, the Taſte was ſo irkſome, and ready to take our Breath from us, when we tryed to eat them; but we expected that if the Flood continued long, we ſhould not need for Water. Yet nevertheleſs, we enjoying Health and Strength, and Hunger growing violent, we would be taſting the Berries, though we could reap no ſatifaction.

The 6th of the 8th Month; the 3d of the Week.

This Morning the Flood began to come into this Houſe alſo; the Indians ſeemed much concerned: The Storm of Wind and Rain held till about Mid-day; at which time the Wind ſhifted Southweſt, with the Rain and in ſome few Hours the Flood began to abate.

The 7th of the 8th Month; the 4th of the Week.

By this day Noon the Water fell many feet, and I went out to ſee our People whom I left in the King's Houſe; I found them where I left them. All the Indians had left the Houſe, and our People remained on the Cabin, which was about four foot from the Floor. The Flood had riſen within two or three Inches of the Top of the Cabin; and th • y ſaid, They expected to dye there. We began to expreſs our Hunger and Thirſt to each other; but there was no help as yet for either: We went to the Springs, but they were all as Salt as the Sea; and we would be ſtriving with the Berries, but they were ſo Offenſive unto us, that we could reap no ſatisfaction from them. We went a begging at Times to the Indian-Women to ſuckle our Child, which they would ſeldom deny.

The 8th of the 8th Month; the 5th of the Week.

This Day we got ſome Water to drink, but it was very brackiſh, and at beſt not good.

The 9th of the 8th Month; the 6th of the Week.

This Day the young Caſſekey returned to his Houſe, with his Cheſts and other Things.

The 10th of the 8th Month; the 7th of the Week.

This Day we got a Meal of Fiſh, the greateſt plenty we had received ſince we were here. We longed for the Old Caſſekey's return, and feared that this bad Weather would lengthen the Time.

The 11th of the 8th Month; the 1ſt of the Week.

The Morning early came a Meſſenger, giving an Account, that the Old Caſſekey was within ſome few Leagues of the Town, and that we might expect him this Forenoon, within the Time he came in ſight: We all drew down to the Water-ſide to receive him; we perceived he came in State, having his two Cannoos laſh'd together, with Poles athwar • from the one to the other, making a Plat-Form which being covered with a Mat, on it ſtood a Cheſt, which was belonging to us, and my Negro-Boy Caeſar, (which the Caſſekey of Hoe-Bay took from me) whom he had got from the Indians at Hoe-Bay: Upon this Cheſt he ſat croſs-legged, being newly painted red, his Men with Poles ſetting the Cannoos along unto the Shore. Seeing us, he cryed [Whough] and looked very ſternly at us. He was received by his People with great Homage, holding out his Hands (as their Cuſtom is) to be kiſſed, having his Cheſt carried before him unto his Houſe, whither he went, the Houſe being filled with Indians. The Old Caſſekey began, and held a Diſcourſe for ſome Hours, giving an Account, as we ſuppoſe, what he heard and ſaw; in which Diſcourſe, he would often mention, Nickaleer; which cauſed us to fear, that all Things were not well: After he had told his Story, and ſome of the Elder Indians had expreſt their Sentiments thereof, they Drank Caſſeena, and Smoaked until Evening. The Houſe being clear, the Old Caſſekey looking very unpleſantly, ſhewed unto us ſeveral Things which he had got; as, a Hatchet, a Knife, the Cheſt, and many other Things, asking us, if they were not ours? Which we owned; whereupon he would ſay, they were Nickaleer (or Engliſh:) We ſignified that we had them of the Engliſh, but our Money was Spaniſh. Towards the Evening, Joſeph Kirle, my ſelf and Solomon, got an Opportunity to Diſcourſe him; we began to urge his Promiſe, of carrying us for Auguſteen: At firſt he ſtated his Hardſhips and Labour to Hoe-Bay, and back, and that he muſt have Time to reſt, before he could go out again: Then he told us, the Way was long, and would be tedious, and that at ſeveral Places we muſt draw the Cannoos over Land for a great diſtance; he alſo mentioned how many Towns there were between this, and Auguſteen, in Number Ten; But nigh the Concluſion, be ſetting an angry Countenance upon us, told us, that at Hoe-Bay he was informed, that we ſhould ſay, We were all Engliſh men; after he ſaid this, in an angry Manner, he turn'd from us, and went away.

This laid all our hopes in the Duſt, and we ſoon perceived the Indians grew jealous of us; for they would now be daily asking us, if we were not, Nickaleer or Engliſh? And would not ſeem ſatisfied with a denial. Many Days were ſpent, and the Time drew nigh, that we underſtood the Old Caſſekey was intended for Auguſteen; hereupon we apply'd our ſelves to him, requeſting, that if all might not go, he would carry ſome of us; but he told us, he would carry but one. This put us on querying, which of us ſhould be that One. The Generality was for Me; but I and Joſeph Kirle were for Solomon; becauſe he could ſpeak the Spaniſh-Language well, and no other of us could: And ſhould any other of us have gone, and come amongſt thoſe Indians to the Northward; who, we ſuppoſed, could ſpeak the Spaniſh-Language well, we ſhould be diſcovered to be what thoſe People did ſupoſe we were; therefore it might overthrow all our Expectation; but Solomon might paſs all thoſe Objections. Theſe Reaſons did not ſatisfy our People, ſo that ſome of them grew Cholerick; of which the old Caſſekey took notice, and told Solomon, that if they made ſuch a Stirr, he would not carry one: If he did, it ſhould be either Solomon, Joſeph Kirle or Me. Whereupon we prevailed with him, that Solomon might go, and accordingly made Preparations; the Caſſekey appointed the Number of Indians to go with him; alſo a Cannoo was ſent for; which, when it came, we found it to have belonged to the Engliſh, by the Make of her. This Cannoo had a great Hole in the Head, nigh the Bottom, with many great Rents and Holes in her: Joſeph Kirle and I were required to mend her; which, with much a-do, was accompliſhed; the Cannoo being much decay'd, and rotten where the Rents were

The 18th of the 8th Month; the 1ſt of the Week.

This Day-morning, the old Caſſekey, with Solomon, and ſix Indians, in a Cannoo, ſet out for Auguſteen. The Caſſekey carried a ſmall Cheſt, in which was nigh One Hundred Pieces of Eight, as ſome of our People did ſuppoſe, with ſome other Matters that were gotten from our Veſſel. The Weather was likely for Rain, which cauſed us to fear, ſhould the Weather prove bad, that Solomon would hardly live to get to Auguſteen; for he had nothing to cover him except a pair of Indian Breeches, and a ſmall piece of Skin that covered his Breaſt.

We underſtood by the old Caſſekey, that it would be a Month, or next New Moon, before we could expect their Return: All which Time we ſpent in much Trouble and Hardſhip. The Weather began to grow cold, and Proviſion very ſhort; that is, Palm-Berries, Coker-Plumbs, and Sea-Grapes, (which are the three Sorts before expreſſed) the Time of theſe Fruits-bearing being over, they having no Sort of Fruit till next Spring.

Theſe People neither Sow nor Plant any manner of Thing whatſoever, nor Care for any Thing, but what the Barren Sands Produce: Fiſh they have as plenty as they pleaſe, but ſometimes they would make it ſcarce to us; ſo that a Meal in a Week was moſt commonly our portion, and three Meals a Rarity. After the old Caſſekey's Departure, our Hardſhips increaſed, eſpecially my Wife's and Child's for want of Food of any Sort; my Wife's Milk was gone, and our poor Child was in great want; the Indians now and then would give it ſuck, but rarely to ſatisfie it; for there was a Woman or two of their own which had young Children, and not able to ſuckle them. Our Extremity was ſuch, that any manner of Thing would go down with us; the Gills and Guts of Fiſh, pick'd off a Dung-hill, was acceptable; the Scraps the Indians threw away, and the Water they boyled their Fiſh in, we were thankfull for, tho' never ſo undecently handled by them. And tho' my Wife had hardly any Milk for her Child, yet an Indian-Woman, who was lately delivered of a Child, and had no Milk in her Breaſt, would have had her to ſuckle her Child; which my Wife conſented unto. And this was a means of her and our Child's reaping a Benefit; for the Indians would give her Fiſh: Which helped to increaſe Milk fo • our Child. Many were our Exerciſes, both in Body and Mind amongſt this People. Sometimes they would look upon us, as tho' they had ſome ill Intent towards the whole of us; at other Times, they would tell us, (who were nominally Spaniards) How and in what Manner thoſe of Smith's Company ſhould be put to Death. And thus were we daily exerciſed in Sorrow and grievous Troubles. Sometimes doubt would ariſe amongſt us, concerning what would be the End of us, and what manner of Deaths we ſhould paſs through: And whomſoever theſe Doubts did appear in, it would be hard for another to help with Counſel: But ſome there were, whoſe Hope never failed, they truſting in the Lord to work our Deliverance. One thing did ſeem more grievous to me and my Wife, than any other Thing, which was. That if it ſhould ſo happen, that we ſhould be put to Death, we feared that our Child would be kept Alive, and bred up as one of thoſe People: When theſe Thoughts did ariſe, it wounded us deep.

This Day, being the Time of the Moon's entering the Firſt Quarter, the Indians have a Ceremonious Dance, which they begin about Eight a Clock in the Morning: In the firſt Place comes an old Man, and takes a Staff, about eight Foot long, having a broad Arrow on the head thereof, and thence half way painted Red and White, like unto a Barker's-Pole ▪ in the middle of this Staff is fix'd a piece of Wood, ſhaped like unto a Thigh, Leg and Foot of a Man; and the lower Part thereof is painted Black; and this Staff being carried out of the Caſſekey's Houſe, is ſet faſt in the Ground, ſtanding upright; this done, he alſo brings out a Basket, containing Six Rattles, which are taken out of the Basket, and placed at the Foot of his Staff; then another old Man comes, and ſets up a Howling, like unto a mighty Dog, but beyond him for length of Breath; withal making a Proclamation: This being done, the moſt of them having painted themſelves, ſome red, ſome Black, ſome with Black and red; with their Belly girt up as Tight as well they can Gird themſelves with Ropes, having their Sheafs of Arrows at their Backs, and their Bows in their Hands; being gathered together about this Staff, ſix of the chiefeſt Men in Eſteem amongſt them, eſpecially one who is their Doctor, and much eſteemed, taking up the Rattles, begin a hideous Noiſe, ſtanding round this Staff, ſhaking their Rattles, and bowing without ceaſing unto the Staff for about half an Hour; whilſt theſe ſix are thus imployed, all the reſt are ſtaring and ſcraching, pointing upwards and downwards, on this and the other Side, every way, looking like Men frighted, or more like Furries; thus behaving themſelves until the ſix have done ſhaking their Rattles. Then they all begin a Dance, violently ſtamping on the Ground, for the Space of an Hour or more, without ceaſing: In which Time they will ſweat in a moſt exceſſive Manner, that by the Time the Dance is over, what by their Sweat, and the violent ſtamping of their Feet, the Ground is trodden into Furrows; and by the Morning, the Place where they danced was covered with Maggots: Thus, often repeating the Manner, they continue till about three or four a Clock in the Afternoon; by which Time many were ſick and fainty. And then, being gathered into the Caſſekey's Houſe, they ſit down, having ſome hot Caſſeena ready, which they drink plentifully, and give greater quantities thereof to the Sick and Fainty, than to others: Then they eat Berries. On theſe Days they eat not any Food till Night.

The next Day, about the ſame Time, they begin their Dance, at the Day before. Alſo the third Day they begin their Dance▪ at the uſual Time: At which Time came many Indians from other Towns, and fell to Dancing, without taking any Notice one of the other.

This Day they were ſtricter than the other two Days, for no Woman muſt look upon them; but if any of their Women go out of their Houſes, they go vailed with a Mat.

The 25 of the 8th Month; the 1ſt of the Week.

This Day was a Day of plenty unto us, for we had as much Fiſh and Berries, as would ſerve us two Days.

This Week we obſerved that great Baskets of dryed Berries were brought in from divers Towns, and delivered to the King, or young Caſſekey, which we ſuppoſed to be a Tribute to the King of this Town, who is Chief of all the Towns from Santa Lucia, to the Northward of this Town of Jece.

The 27th of the 8th Month; the 3d of the Week.

This Day was a Bag of Berries (the Bag made of Graſs) given us, which we eat in two or three Days; and then we faſted as many Days, before the young Caſſekey would give us more.

About this Time John Smith and Andrew Morray were ſharply ſeized with a Fever and Ague: When the Fit of the Ague was on them, the Indians would mock and deride them: This we well obſerved, that theſe People had no Compaſſion on their own Aged declining People, when they were paſt their Labour, nor on others of their own, which lay in any declining Condition: For the Younger is ſerved before the Elder, and the Elder People, both Men and Women, are Slaves to the Younger.

In this Place we ſaw many Tokens of ſome of our Nation's having fallen into the Hands of theſe People: As, two Engliſh Cannoos, one of Cedar, the other of Cotton-Tree, like thoſe of Jamaica; ſeveral Blocks and Shelves of Lignum-Vitae; ſeveral Tools and Knives, and more particularly, a Razor, on the haft of which, was writ the Man's Name, thus, THOMAS FOSTER. Some of theſe Things looked as though they had been ſeveral Years amongſt them, ſome but a few: But we never dared to enquire, for we thought they brought ſome Things in our view to try us.

Here was a Man in this Town, who, ſome Years paſt, had been taken off by ſome of our Engliſh Sloops for a Diver on the Wreck, to the Eaſtward of Cuba, where he was ſometime: But the Veſſel putting into Cuba, for Water, this Indian Swam on Shore, and got to the Havanna, thence to Auguſteen, and ſo to his Native Town. The greateſt Charge this Man had againſt the Engliſh, was, for taking him, and their People away; not but that he was well uſed amongſt them: Tis Indian would often call Joſeph Kirle, Solomon Creſſon, and ſome of us into his Houſe, ſeeming very chearful, asking, if they would eat, withal asking the names of the Berries, expecting we would call them after the Engliſh manner [Plumbs] but perceiving his drift, and having learned the Name of them, as the Spaniards calls them [Uvas; then he would tell us, that the Engliſh called them Plumbs:] Such Sort of Diſcourſe we had at Times, for he would be ſtriving to intrap us, viz. Joſeph, Solomon and Me, in Words, but he never had an Advantage; for when Solomon was gone, we ſhun'd all his Invitations and Arguments.

The 31ſt of the 8th Month; the 7th of the Week.

This Day came in a Cannoo laden with Fiſh, and it was free, for thoſe that would, to take as much as they pleaſed. The Indians put us to go and take, for it was a kind of a Scramble, amongſt us, and the young Indian-Men and Boys: All of us got Fiſh enough to ſerve us two or three Days.

The 2d of the 9th Month; the 2d of the Week:

This Morning, about Sun-riſing, came two Strange Indians, who had run ſo hard, that they Sweated extreamly, of whom we underſtood, that the Spaniards were coming with their Old Caſſekey: which News ſurpriſed us, doubting the Truth of it, for Solomon had been gone but ſixteen Days, and we underſtood that they muſt have an extraordinary Paſſage to be here in a Month: We had not long to conſider of the Matter, for in an Hour's Time we heard four Muskets diſcharged, and immediately we looked out, and the Spaniards in their Perriauger were in ſight. The Indians were like a People amazed, and overcome with Fear: We perceived the Noiſe of a Gun was terrible unto them. The Spaniards Landed, being in number Twelve, one Sebaſtian Lopez Commanding Ten Soldiers, with one Indian an Interpeter. The Spaniards embraced us very chearfully, and expreſſed their being glad to find us alive: But we were not able to Diſcourſe each other, though we had ſo much Sp • ſh as to ask Queſtions, and anſwer ſome Part of what the • asked us. One of the Spaniards ſaid, they could not ſpeak Engliſh nor could we ſpeak Spaniſh enough to underſtand each other ſufficiently; this the Indians perceived, and immediately cryed out, Nickaleer, Nickaleer, and looked enviouſly on us, ſo that, could they have had their wills, we believed they would not have ſuffered us to have lived many Hours; but the Spaniards awed them.

We received a Letter from Solomon, which he writ when he met with Capt. Sebaſtian Lopez, ſignifying the Governnment of Auguſteen's great Care for our Preſervation, of what Nation ſoever we were: But how theſe Perſons, or the Governor of Auguſteen, had knowledge of us, we could not underſtand; for they had been fourteen Days from Auguſteen, which was nigh the Time Solomon went hence; and they met Solomon about half way, and ſent him for Auguſteen with other Guides, bringing the Old Caſſekey and his People with them: We obſerved that the Old Caſſekey ſeem'd much dejected. We ſuppoſed the Spaniards had taken from him the Money, and what other Things he had carried with him; or that he was vexed he ſhould be ſo deceived, in taking us for Spaniards.

The Spaniards were extraordinary kind unto us, ſo that we had Occaſion to rejoice, and thank the Lord for this part of our Delivrance by their Means: They were alſo a Terror unto the Indians; for they ſearched their Houſes, and took all from them that ever they could find, even to the Stump of a • ail; which aggravated them, and increaſed their diſ-affection to us-ward, ſo that we dar'd not ſtir from a Spaniard. The Spaniſh Captain made inquiry where we were caſt away, and what was ſaved that we had in our Veſſel? We gave an Account, ſo well as we could, to make him underſtand us; which Account made him very deſirous to go down thither; but looking over a Paper often, which we ſuppoſed, was the Governor's Order and Inſtructions to him; we underſtood they would not permit him to proſecute his Deſigns; beſides, we made him ſenſible of the Danger we ſhould be in, if he and his Men ſhould go and leave us amongſt theſe People, who were bitterly incenſed againſt us.

They inquired what became of the Boat that belonged to Smith's Veſſel and ours, we told them, that theſe Indians had taken Smith's Boat and ſunk her ſomewhere in the Sound, but ours was at St. Lucia: The Spaniards made the Indians go and ſhew where they had ſunk Smith's Boat, and help our People to get her up; which being done, ſhe was brought to the Town: The Spaniards were mightily pleaſed with her, and propoſed, that they in their Cannoo, and our People in that Boat, ſhould go to Hoe-Bay, whereby they might get all from the Indians, which they had gotten from us, but we would not countenance the Matter: We were for us ſpeedy departing from amongſt theſe People, as we could, ſince it pleaſed God to open a Way for our Deliverance.

This Morning the Spaniſh Captain made the Indians provide two Cannoos, which he cauſed to be laſhed together, at ſome diſtance, with Sticks a croſs, and matted on the Top; which being done, with four Indians, Joſeph Kirle, John Smith, Robert Barrow, Andrew Morray, Benjamin Allen, Nathaniel Randall, John Shears, Cornelius Toker, Joſeph Kirle's Boy John Hilliar, four Negors, viz. Jack, Caeſar, Sarah and Quenza, were ſent away for Auguſteen; but not one Morſel of Victuals, except a very few Berries, had they with them; and not one Spaniard to Guard them, but were put under the Government of thoſe four Indians. About an Hour after Joſeph Kirle was gone, the Spaniſh Captain ordered Smith's Boat to be get ready, with two Spaniards, and four of our Men, to row to the Place where the drift of Smith's Veſſel was, to look for Log-wood or old Iron. When they returned, there was not any Thing of Value: But our People ſaid, that as they were ſearching about, they found the Bones of Andrew Barns; his Skull and Jaw-Bone were broken, which occaſioned us ſuſpect, that he was knocked on the Head by the Indians, after they had driven away Smith and his People.

We told the Spaniſh Captain, that Joſeph Kirle's Negro, Ben, had been abſent, ever ſince the Day after Solomon Creſſon went hence, being gone with the Old Caſſekey's Wife, but we knew not whither. The Captain made inquiry of the Indians whither he was gone; they ſaid, for Hoe-Bay: Then be ordered them to ſend for him, for he would not leave him behind: The Indians ſaid, he would be here within a Day or two.

The Spaniards were continually ſearching for what they could find, of ſuch Things as the Indians had gotten from us or others: And when they could find no more, they would offer to buy with Tobacco what they could perſwade the Indians to bring to Light A Leaf, or half a Leaf of Tobacco, would purchaſe a Yard of Linen or Woollen, or Silk, from the Indians; ſuch Admirers of Tobacco are they, that they eſteem it beyond any other Thing.

An Indian of the Town, ſometime before the Spaniards came, having a conſiderable Quantity of Ambergreece boaſted, that when he went for Auguſteen with that, he could purchaſe of the Spaniards, a Looking-Glaſs, an Ax, a Knife or two, and three or four Mannocoes, (which is about five or ſix Pounds) of Tobacco: The Quantity of Amber-greece might be about five Pound weight.

The 4th of the 9th Month; the 4th of the Week.

This Day we made Oars for Smith's Boat, of Sticks, and the Cantle-pieces of Sugar-Hogſheads, which were gotten on the Beach, where the drift of Smith's Veſſel came on Shore: And this Evening came the Old Caſſekey's Wife, with Joſeph Kirle's Negro Ben, and Joſeph Kirle's Boat, which was of great advantage to help to carry us. We work'd all this Night to fit the Boat, and Oars unto her, being intented to go away, as ſoon as we could compleat that Jobb.

The Spaniards had brought little Proviſion with them, ſo that there was not much to ſpare for us, having not above a Rove of Corn, and a little New-Spain Bread, which was ſo bad, that it was more Duſt, and dead Wevels, than Bread; an handful of it was an acceptable Preſent to us. We would mix it with a little Water, making it into a Paſte, which would eat pleaſantly; but Hunger was no Stranger unto us, and we knew not that we ſhould have any Victuals on our Journey; but our Deliverance ſeem'd to over-ballance all. The Indians would not give us any Berries; but our People watch'd an Opportunity, and took one of the Caſſekey's Bags of Berries, which might contain about a Buſhel, which was all that One and Thirty of us had to depend on.

The 5th of the 9th Month; the 5th of the Week.

This Morning, about three Hours before Day, we departed from this Town of Jece; the weather was grown Cold, we had nothing wherewith to cover our Bodies, beſides what the Indians gave us at firſt, except my Wife, for whom the Spaniards got an old Jacket (which had been one of Smith's Men's) and gave her to wear; alſo a ſmall piece of Cloth to cover our poor Child: But it pleaſed God to ſtrengthen us, in this our Condition, ſo that we rowed all this Day without ceaſing, untill three Hours after it was dark, by which Time we got to an Indian-Town: Here we met with Joſeph Kirle, Robert Barrow and the others, who got thither not above an Hour or two bfore us. They had not received any Manner of Suſtenance from the Time they left us, untill they got ſome Berries of us, having lain one Night of the two in a Swamp; but they were as cheerful as Men could be in this Straight.

Since they left us, amongſt their other Hardſhips, Joſeph Kirle had like to have loſt his Life ſeveral Times: The firſt was thus, Whilſt the two Cannoos were laſhed together, having a few Berries, that were deſigned to have been ſhared amongſt them, the Iriſh-Boy, Cornelius Toker, would ever and non be taking ſome of them; who, being often Reproved by Joſeph Kirle and others, would not deſiſt; whereupon Joſeph Kirle, with the Paddle he paddled the Cannoo along with, ſtruck him; thereupon an Indian took his Bow and Arrow, and was going to ſhoot Joſeph; (who ſeemed little concerned, whether he lived or died) withal ſaying, The Spaniards would juſtifie him.

Another Time, when he was ſpent with paddling the Cannoo, and deſired John Smith, Andrew Murray, and others of them, as well able as himſelf, to give him a Spell, which they refuſed; he being not able to paddle further, laid down his paddle; whereupon the Indians commanding him to paddle, he refuſed, ſaying, they might kill him if they would; opening his Breaſt for them to execute their Wills: Which they ſeemed as though they would have done; but, after great threatning they deſiſted.

Another Time, The Wind being high, and the Seas rough, that they were forced to unlaſh their Cannoos, by Joſeph Kirle's perſwaſion, and to go ſingle; Joſeph Kirle taking one Cannoo to his own Management, having Robert Barrow, his Boy, my Kinſman, Nathaniel Randal, and the Negroes, in her; which, being thus ſingle from the other Company, was more ſatisfactory to him than before, tho' none to help but Nathaniel Randal, My Negro-Woman, named Sarah, having beaten and abuſed a Girl, named Quenza; being reproved often by him and Robert Barrow, ſhe therefore abuſed them in an extraordinary Manner; whereupon Joſeph ſtruck her with the Paddle; at which, one of the Indians, in the other Cannoo, took his ſtriking Staff and darted at him, narrowly miſſing him.

This Morning, Joſeph Kirle, with thoſe that were with him, were, by the Spaniſh Captain, ordered away at Break of Day, he not taking any care to give them a little Suſtenance; and about an Hour or two after we followed, rowing all this Day without ceaſing, until an Hour or two in the Night: By which Time we got to an Indian-Town, where not any Thing was to be had but Water: About two Hours after us came Joſeph Kirle, the Spaniſh Captain would not let them come on Shore, but ordered them to keep on, that we might get next Night to the Place where we muſt hale our Boats over Land, from one Sound unto another.

The 7th of the 9th Month; the 7th of the Week.

This Morning we ſet forward very early, and rowed hard: About Noon we got to a parcel of Marſhy Iſlands, amongſt which we were to go up Creeks: The Paſſage was very difficult to find. At length, when we were got nigh an Indian-Town, the Spaniards hollowed, and an Indian came out into the Marſh, but was very loath to come near us; at length he came wading to us to be our Pilot: We ſet forward, and in an Hour's Time, or more, were got to the place where Joſeph Kirle, and thoſe with him, were; the Indians that were with Joſeph would not let them proceed further, until we came up with them. In half an Hour's Time we got to the Place where we were to hale our Boats over Land, being about a Quarter of a Mile from Sound to Sound: At this Place the Sea was half a Furlong from us. The Spaniſh Captain gave the Indian, we laſt took in, a piece of a Leaf of Tobacco, commanding him to go, with all ſpeed, and bid his Caſſekey, with all his able Men, come to help to hale our Boats over Land. But we ſet to work, and had them over by that Time the Indians came. The Spaniſh Captain gave the Caſſekey a Leaf or two of Tobacco, and diſcharged them; only ordered the Caſſekey to ſend ſome Men a Fiſhing for him; which they did, and before Night brought a ſtately Parcel of Fiſh; but none of our People had any Part of it, except my Wife and Penelope: What they did not eat, they kept to carry with them.

A little before Night, ſprang up a Storm of Wind at North-Eaſt. It ſeemed likely to be a Diſmal Night of Wind and Rain, and we were got to a Place where there was not a Tree, or Buſh, or any Manner of Shelter, and the Wind ſo very cold that we thought we ſhould not live till the next Day. We had no Wood to make a Fire with, and what to do we could not tell; but we were reſolved to try to get ſome, and in order thereto▪ ſome of the ableſt of us went along the Bay, to ſearch for Drift-Wood, and found a little but Rain came, with the Night, and no Shelter to be had, but our Boats; and the Spaniards would not let us meddle with them, to turn them bottom upwards for Shelter, which ſeemed very hard; but they had made themſelves ſome Shelter with Mats: We were forced to exerciſe Patience; and with what Salt-Water-Wood we had, made as good a Fire as we could, and laid our ſelves down on the Sand by it: And it pleaſed God we had a Comfortable Night, beyond our Expectation; only the Cold was very ſharp.

The 8th of the 9th Month; the 1ſt of the Week.

This Morning we ſet forward, but the Water was ſo low, that we were forc'd to wade, and thruſt the Boat along for ſome Miles: At length we got into a deep Channel, where was nothing to be ſeen but Marſh and Water, and no faſt Land, nor Trees. About ten a Clock we heard three or four Muskets fired a little a-head of us, in the Channel we were in. Our Spaniards preſently anſwered them with the like; and in a little Time we met. This was a Perriauger to joyn with that that came for us, having order to go to the place where we were Cast way, and to get what was to be had from the Indians: But this other Boat turned back, for there was no place to go on Shore. And in an Hour or two's Time we got into the other Sound, where the Land was not to be ſeen from ſide to ſide in ſome Places: The like was in the other we came through. About an Hour before Sun-ſet we got to an Indian Plantation (this was the firſt Place we ſaw any thing planted) being full of Pumpion-Vines, and ſome ſmall Pumpions on them; but the Spaniards were too quick for us, and got all before us. Some of us got a few as big as on's Fiſt. We had a Fire there, yet had not patience to dreſs them as they ſhould be, but put them into the Fire, roaſt • d them, and eat them. The Spaniards uſed a great deal of Cookery with their Pumpions. And the Perriauger, that came from Auguſteen, had brought Bread, Corn, and ſtrung Beef; but it was kept from us except a Piece of ſtrung Beef, the Captain of the Spaniards gave my Wife, as big as a Stick of Sealing-Wax, which we treaſured up, expecting it muſt be harder with us when we left this People. Here Captain Sebaſtian Lopez drew up a Writing, and would have had me and Joſeph Kirle to Sign it, which we refuſed. For we perceived he had a deſign, eſpecially againſt me, to oblige me to give him ſome of my Negroes. We anſwered him ſhort, that I reckoned my ſelf and Negroes at the Governor of Auguſteen's diſpoſal, and we would Sign no Writing: We borrowed a Pot, and boiled Pumpion-Leaves, having nothing to put to to them but Water, which was Satisfactory. But this Night was more terrible than the laſt, the Wind being at North-Weſt; it did not blow hard, yet it was very cold, we lying in an open Field, without any Shelter: One Side of us would ſcorch, while the other was Freezing. Our Negro-Woman Hagar's little Boy, named Cajo • , was ſeized with Convulſion-Fits about two in the Morning, which was chiefly occaſioned by the Cold and want of Food: But help there was not from us. The Spaniſh Captain came to ſee the Child, and ſuppoſing that it would die, asked if the Child was a Chriſtian? He was anſwered, as good a one as he could make it. But he called for ſome Water, putting ſome of it on the Crown of the Child's Head, and Croſſing it, called him Franciſco. This Action pacified its Father and Mother.

The 9th of the 9th Month; the 2d of the Week.

This Morning we were to go forward, and the Spaniards were to return to the Place where we were caſt away: But our two Boats could not carry us all, therefore we had the Spaniards great Perrianger to carry us one Day's Journey further, to an Indian-Town, and four Spaniards with us, three of which were to bring the Perriauger back, the other was to be our Guide for Auguſteen. We departed, and met with an intricate Paſſage; for ſometimes we ſhould be a Ground on Oyſter-Banks, or Shoals, and almoſt out of ſight of Land. About two or three in the Afternoon, we had no Water to go any further; the Wind being North-Weſterly drove the Water out of the Sound; but being nigh the Shore, where had been an Indian-Town, we went on Shore, and found ſome ripe Berries on the Palm-Shrubs, which we were very earneſt after, till ſuch Time as a Storm of Wind, with Rain, began to come upon us, and Night nigh at hand; whereupon we all got together, conſidering what we ſhould do, ſince there was no poſſibility of getting Shelter here. Our Indian Guide ſaid, we might get to a Town about two Leagues off; which we were glad to hear, for it rained hard. So we, with our Guide, ſet forward, and walked over a Parcel of ſcraggy ſhrubby Hills, to the Sea-Shore; along which we travelled till we got to the Indian-Town, where we got plenty of Berries for our Supper. It rained much till towards Morning.

The 10th of the 9th Month; the 3d of the Week.

This Morning the Indians were not willing to ſtay any longer; and we were by our Guide required to depart, which we did, and a great many young Indian-Men followed us ſome Miles along the Bay, and offered violence to Robert Barrow, and ſeveral others; but were eaſily ſtop'd, by ſhewing them a ruſty Musket, preſented towards them, and ſo they left us. We had an untoward Paſſage from the Sea-Shore athwart the Land to the Indian-Town, the Ground being ſwampey, and ſcraggy Hills, which to our bare Feet, was very troubleſome. This was a large Town, and there was another large Town, about a Mile diſtant in ſight, thither part of our Company was ſent to be quartered; at which Town, about a twelve Month ſince, a Parcel of Dutch-Men were killed; who having been Caſt away on the Bahama Shoals, in a Flat which they built eſcaped hither, and were herd devoured by theſe Canibals, as we underſtood by the Spaniards: The Flat or Boat our People ſaw; but they ſeem'd kind to them, giving them Fiſh and Berries to eat: We remained at theſe two Towns till next Morning. The Indians of the Town I was at, were not ſo kind, as thoſe at the other Town had been: Some of our People were for ſelling their Rags to the Indians for Fiſh; but we thought it was neceſſary, of the two Extreams, to defend againſt the Cold, for every Day grew Colder than other; and we feared, that if, we were much longer expoſed to it, we ſhould not live it out.

The 11th of the 9th Month; the 4th of the Week.

This Morning, leaving this Town, we Embarqued in our two Boats, and thoſe of our People that were at the other Town, were to have a large Cannoo to carry them thence, and were to meet us in the Sound: We rowed ſeveral Leagues, and did not meet them, it being then about ten a Clock; the Spaniard would go on Shore, and travel back by Land to ſee after them. We being by an Inlet of the Sea, which was a Mile over, the Spaniard ordered us to go on the other ſide, and there ſtay for him; which we did many Hours: At this Place we all went upon ſearch, to ſee if any thing was to be had for the Belly, ſome on the Land, ſome in the Water: The Land yielded nothing, but in the Water we got a Sort of Shell-Fiſh, called Water-Soldiers, which we eat: At length the Cannoo with our People came, but our Spaniard was not come; but in about an half Hour's Time he came with a ſmall Cannoo. This was the Place where Solomon met the Spaniards, The Cannoos had each two Indians to ſet them along; and we had one Indian for our Guide, named Juan Antonio ▪ who the Spaniard ſaid was a Chriſtian, but an Inhabitant of that Town, where the Dutch-Men were killed. We ſet forward in our two Boats, and the two Cannoos, and rowed till Night, being nigh a Place of thicketty Wood, which we made choice of to lodge at for this Night: Here was Wood enough; we made large Fires, we were pleaſed with the Place, and lay down to reſt. About Mid-night I had a great Loſs, having a Quart of Berries whole, and as much pounded to mix with Water, to feed our Child with; the Fire being diſturbed, the Cloth which we had our Food in was burn'd; all was loſt, and nothing to be had untill we could get to the Spaniards, which was two Days March at leaſt: About an Hour after this, the Wind roſe at North-Weſt, and it began to Rain; but having ſmall Palmetto which grew nigh, Joſeph Kirle and I ſet to Work, and made a Shelter, which would keep Ten or more of us from the Weather: We had no ſooner compleated our Work, but it rained hard. In this Shower of Rain the Four Indians got from among us, took their Cannoos, and away they went back again: When Day appeared, we miſſed them, upon which we went to the Water-Side, where we found the two Cannoos gone; and now we were in a great ſtrait; but the Spaniard ſaid, thoſe that could Travel beſt, muſt go by Land. The Perſons pitch'd upon, were Richard Limpeney, Andrew Murray, Cornelius Tuker, Joſeph Kirle's Boy John Hillard, and Penelope, with ſeven Negroes, named, Peter, Jack, Caeſar, Sarah, Bella, Suſanna and Quenza; the Spaniards, and the Indian, Juan Antonio went with them, to direct them the Way, leading them over Land to the Sea Shore, and then directing to keep by the Sea-Shore along to the Northward.

They returned to us, and we with our two Boats rowed all Day without ceaſing, till Sun-ſetting; and when we put on Shore, the Place was an old Indian-Field, on a high bleak Hill, where had been a large Indian-Houſe, but it was tumbled down: Of the Ruines 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 travel all Night▪ Night came on; we had Fire and Wood enough, and had gathered a great heap of Graſs to lie in, hoping to have got ſome reſt; but the North-Weſt-Wind 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 we never felt the like. The Spaniard that was clothed, was as bad to bear it, as we that were naked: At length Day appeared, and we muſt go.

The 13th of the 9th Month; the 6th of the Week.

T •• 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, till it was ready to b • num us: But we put forward, and rowing about 2 Leagues, came to an old Houſe, where the Spaniard told us, we muſt leave the Boats, and Travel by Land; we had a Boggy Marſh to wade through for a Mile, to get to the Sea-Shore, and had about five or ſix Leagues, along the Bay or Strand, to the Spaniſh Sentinal'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 got through the Boggy Marſh, and on the Sea-Shore, 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 Negro London, whom I kept to help carry my Child, keeping together; the reſt of our Company had left us, not expecting to ſee ſome of us again; eſpecially Robert Barrow, my Wife and Child. We travelled after as well as we could, having gone about two Miles, the Cold ſo ſeized on my Kinſman, Benjamin Allen, that he began to be ſt • ff in his Limbs, and ſtaggered and fell, grieviouſly complaining that the Cold would kill him: Our Negro having our young Child, I and my Wife took our Kinſman under each Arm, and helped him along; but at length his Limbs were quite ſtiff, his Speech almoſt gone, and he began to Foam at the Mouth: In this ſtrait we knew not what to do; to ſtay with him we muſt periſh alſo, and we were willing to ſtrive as long as we could. We carried our Kinſman, and laid him under the Bank, not being Dead; I reſolved to run after our People, ſome of them not being out of Sight; which I did, and left my Wife and Child, with the Negro, to follow as faſt as they could. I run about two Miles, making ſigns to them, thinking if they ſhould look behind them, and ſee me running, they would ſtop till I got up with them. I was in hopes, if I could have accompliſhed this my deſign, to have got help to have carried my Kinſman along; but they ſtopp'd not, and I ran until the Wind pierced me, ſo that my Limbs failed, and I fell; yet ſtill I ſtrove and getting up, walked backwards to meet my Wife; as I was going, I met with the Spaniard coming out of the Sand-Hills, and Joſeph Kirle's Negro Ben. I made my Complaint to the Spaniard, but he not being able to underſtand me well, went forward. I then apply'd my ſelf to the Negro, making large Promiſes, if he would fetch my Kinſman; he offered to go back, and uſed his endeavour, which he did. At length my Wife and Child came up with me, ſhe was almoſt overcome with Grief, expreſſing in what Manner we were forced to part with our Kinſman; and expecting that ſhe and the Child ſhould go next.

Poor Robert Barrow was a great way behind us, I feared we ſhould never ſee him again. I uſed my endeavour to comfort and cheer my Wife, intreating her not to let Grief overcome her: I had hopes that the Lord would help us in this ſtraight, as he had done in many ſince we were in this Land: And if it pleaſed God that we ſhould lay down our Lives in this Wilderneſs, 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 God's Goodneſs in preſerving us thus far through ſo many eminent Dangers; in the ſenſe of which, a ſecret hope would ariſe, (tho' involved with human Doubts and Fears) That the Lord would yet preſerve us. I took my Child from the Negro, and caried him. I had an Indian-Mat, with a ſplit in it, through which I put my Head, hanging over my Breaſt unto my Waſte; under this I carried my Child, which help'd 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 froward. Its Mother would take it now and then, and give it the Breaſt, but little could it get at it: Beſides, we dared not ſtop 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 Negro-Woman Hagar, with her Child at her Back, almoſt dead: And a little further we came up with our Negro-Girl Quen • a, being dead, as we thought; for ſhe was as ſtiff as a dead, Body could be, and her Eyes ſet; but at length we perceived her Breath; but ſhe had no Senſe nor Motion. We carried her from the Water-Side, under the Bank. This increaſed my Wife's Sorrow, and ſhe began to doubt, ſhe ſhould not be able to travel much further; but I endeavored to encourage her, not to leave her ſtriving, as long as any Ability was left. All our People were out of Sight except four, and thoſe we had gained upon. I ſent my Negro to overtake them, and to deſire them to ſlacken their pace, till we got up with them; being in hopes, that gaining their Company, would cheer up my Wife; but they would not; ſo the Negro ſtopp'd 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 fail and his Companions left him; whereupon he made grievous Complaints, which I reproved him for, leſt he ſhould diſcourage my Wife. The Sun was nigh ſetting▪ and 〈◊〉 began to look out for the Sentinal's Poſt, and my Negro at Times got upon ſeveral of the higheſt Sand-Hill to look out, but could not ſee any Houſe, not the Smo • of a fire. This was terrible to us all; for the Day being ſo cold, the Night much more, and we not able to travel without reſt; being a ſtarved People, both within our Bodies and without; and if we ceaſed from travelling we ſhould inſtantly be nummed and move no further. In the midſt of theſe Reaſonings and Doubtings, we were got into, I eſpyed a Man, as I thought, ſtanding on the Bank, but at great diſtance; I was afraid to ſpeak, leſt it ſhould prove otherwiſe, but he was ſoon ſeen by the whole Company; and at length we eſpy'd him walking towards the Land, this confirmed us; and ſo we betook to the Hills again, to look out, yet could not ſee the Houſe from thence; but on the next Hill we ſaw it: This was Joy unto us, though we began to have a Senſe of our tiredneſs; for our Reſolution abated, after we had got Sight of the Houſe.

When we got to the Houſe, we found four Sentinals, and the Spaniard our Guide, with three of our Men, viz. Joſeph Buckley, Nathaniel Randal, and John Shires. The Spaniards bid us welcome, and made Room for us to ſit down by the Fire. The chiefeſt Man of the Sentinals took a Kerſey-Coat and gave my Wife to cover her, and gave each of us a piece of Bread, made of Indian-Corn, which was pleaſant unto us; after it we had plenty of hot Caſſeena-Drink. It was dark, and we endeavoured to prevail with the Spaniards to go ſeek for Robert Barrow and my Kinſman, oftering them conſiderable; but they ſeemed not fully to underſtand me, yet I could make them ſenſible, that my Kinſman was almoſt dead, if not quite; and that the Old Man was in a bad Condition. They made me to underſtand, that the Weather was not fit to go out, but they would watch if Robert would paſs by. About an Hour or two after, one of the Spaniards being walking out on the Bay, met with Robert, and brought him into the Houſe: We rejoiced to ſee him, and enquired concerning our Kinſman and Negro Ben. He ſaid, our Kinſman was ſtriving to get up, and could not; he came to him, and ſpake unto him; he could not anſwer, but cry'd, and he could not help him. But coming along, at ſome conſiderable diſtance, met Negro Ben, who ſaid he was going for Benjamin Allen, ſo he paſt him. And ſome Miles further, he ſaw Negro Jack, drawing himſelf down from the Bank, his Lower Parts being dead, and crying out for ſome Fire, that he might ſave his Life; but did not ſee the Negro Girl, whom we halled out of the Way. We were under a great Concern for our Kinſman; the Spaniards we could not prevail upon to go and fetch him, or go and carry wherewith to make a Fire; which had they done, and found them living, it might have preſerved them. But we hoped Negro Ben. would bring our Kinſman. The Spaniards would have had moſt of us to have gone to the next Sentinal's Houſe, which was a League farther, but we all begged hard of them to let us lye in their Houſe, in any Place, on the Ground; for we were not able to travel further: Beſides, the cold would kill us; for we were in ſuch a trembling ſhaking Condition, and ſo full of pain, from Head to Foot, that it's not to be expreſſed. At length the Spaniards conſented, that Robert Barrow, I, my Wife and Child, and John Smith, ſhould lye in the Houſe; but to Joſeph Buckley, Nathaniel Randal, John Sheirs, and my Negro London, they would not grant that Favour. So one of the Spaniards taking a Fire-brand, bid theſe four to go with him; he directed them to a ſmall Thicket of Trees, and ſhewed them to gather Wood, and make large Fires, and ſleep there. Theſe poor Creatures lay out, and it proved a hard froſty Night. The Spaniard returned and ſaid, they were got into a Wood, and had Fire enough. We were ſilent, but feared they would hardly live till Morning.

After they were gone, the Spaniards took a Pint of Indian-Corn, and parched it, and gave part to us, which we accepted cheerfully; alſo they gave us ſome Caſſeena-drink ▪ We were in extraordinary Pain, ſo that we could not reſt▪ and our Feet were extremely bruiſed, the Skin was of • and the Sand caked with the Blood, that we could hardly ſet our Feet to the Ground, after we had been ſom • Time in the Houſe. The Night was extreme cold, though we were in the Houſe, and by the Fire we could not be warm, for the one Side did ſcorch, whilſt the other was ready to freeze; and thus we paſſed the Night.

The 14th of the 9th Month; the 7th of the Week.

This Morning we looked out, and there was a very hard Froſt on the Ground; ſo it was terrible to go out of Doors. Our People returned from the Wood, but complained heavily of their Hardſhip in the Night. They had not been an Hour in the Houſe before the Spaniards gave us all a Charge to be gone to the next Sentinal's Houſe. This was greivious to us all, but more eſpecially to my Wife, • ho could not raiſe herſelf when down: But go we muſt; 〈◊〉 though we entreated hard for my Wife and Robert Barrow, we could not prevail that they might ſtay till we could get a Cannoo. As we were all going, one Spaniard made ſign for me and my Wife to ſtay, which we did, and it was to have a Handful of parch'd Corn. As ſoon as we had received it, they bid us to be gone to the next Sentinel's, where was Victuals enough for us. The Sun was a great height, but we could not feel any warmth it gave; the North-Weſter beginning to blow as hard as it did the Day before. And having deep Sand to travel through, which made our Travelling this one League very hard, eſpecially to my Wife and Robert. The Spaniards lent my Wife a Blanket to be left at the next Sentinal's Houſe.

At length we came to an Inlet of the Sea; on the other Side was the Look-out and Sentinal's Houſe: Here were all our People ſitting, waiting to be carried over, and in a little Time came one of the Sentinals, with a Cannoo, and carried us over.

This Sentinal would not ſuffer us to come into his Houſe, but cauſed us to kindle a Fire under the Lee of his Houſe, and there ſit down: About half an Hour after he bid us be gone to the next Sentinal's, which was a League further, giving us a Cup of Caſſeena, and two Quarts of Indian-Corn for us all, bidding us go to our Company at the next Houſe, and get our Corn dreſſ • d there.

I underſtood that our Negro-Woman, Hagar, got hither late laſt Night, having her Child dead at her Back, which the Spaniards burried.

One of the Spaniards went with us to the next Inlet, carrying a ſtick of Fire, to ſet Fire to ſome Traſh, to make a Signal for them on the other Side, to fetch us over, the Inlet being very wide. When the Cannoo came over for us, our Guide took the Blanket from my Wife; but the Negro, which brought over the Cannoo, lent my Wife one of his Coats, ſo we got over; but before we got to the Houſe, we had a Shower of Hail. At this Houſe we were kindly received, having ſuch a Meſs of Victuals, as we had not had in a long Time before, which was very pleaſant to our Hunger ſtarv'd Stomachs. Our People went hence this Morning for Auguſteen, having a Guide with them; but John Hoſler and Penelope were left here, not being able to travel. We remained here till the Morrow, but the Night was ſo extream Cold, that we could not reſt.

The 15th of the 9th Month; the 1st of the Week.

This Morning the Spaniards bid us prepare to travel, for they were not able to maintain us. We underſtood that it was five or ſix Leagues to Auguſteen, and we could not travel ſo far, being all of us lamed and ſtiff: We intreated them to let us go in a Cannoo, but they denyed us: We intreated for the two Woman and Robert Barrow; at length we prevailed, that they ſhould go up in a Cannoo, for the Cannoo was to go, whether we went or no.

While all this Diſcourſe was, came in a couple of Spaniards, one being the Sentinal that went with our People the Day before, the other was a Perſon the Governor had ſent, with a Cannoo and four Spaniards, to fetch us; This was chearful News; for had we gone to have travelled without a Guide, we ſhould have periſhed. The Man that came for us, brought two Blankets, one for my Wife, the other for Penelope; he deſired us to be going. About a League diſtance from the Place, he left the Cannoo, which we parted with very unwillingly; for ſome of our People, had they had a Mile further to have gone, could not have gone it: The Wind ſtill continued at North-West, and blowed very fiercely, and extream Cold it was: We had ſuch a continual Shivering, and Pain in our Bones, that we were in violent Anguiſh.

Our poor Child was quiet, but ſo black with Cold, and ſhaking, that it was admirable how it lived. We got to Auguſteen about two Hours before Night; being put on Shore, we were directed to the Governor's Houſe: Being got thither, we were had up a pair of Stairs, at the head whereof, ſtood the Governor, who ordered my Wife to be conducted to his Wife's Appartment. I and John Smi • h went into a Room, where the Governor asked us a few Questions; but ſeeing how extream cold we were, he gave us a Cup of Spaniſh-Wine, and ſent us into his Kitchen to warm our ſelves at the Fire. About half an Hour afterwards, the Governor ſent for John Smith and Me, and gave us a Shirt and Sliders, a Hat, and a pair of Silk Stockings; telling us, he had no Woollen Clothes as yet, but Would have ſome made: We put on the linnen, and made all haſte into the Kitchen to the Fire. Robert Barrow was quartered at another Houſe: The Perſons came to the Governor's Houſe, and took ſuch as they were minded to Quarter in their Houſes; ſo that Joſeph Kirle, John Smith, I, my Wife and Child, lodged at the Governor's Houſe. All our People that came up with Joſeph Kirle, came to ſee us. We perceived the People's great Kindneſs; for they were all well cloth • d, from Head to Foot, with the beſt the People had. Joſeph Kirle began to tell us of his travel after he left us on the Bay, and how that they all concluded, that they ſhould never ſee my Wife and Child, and Robert Barrow any more, if they did my Kinſman and me, Richard Limpeney, and thoſe that went with him, had a hard travel, for Thirty ſix Hours without ceaſing; in which Travel, three of our Negroes, that went with them, were loſt (viz, Jack, Caeſar and Quenza) by ſitting down to reſt themſelves, they were in a little Time to nummed, that they could not go, and there periſhed; ſo that we loſt five in that Day's Travel, and began to doubt that Negro Ben periſhed alſo. Joſeph Kirle ſaid, that he thought he ſhould have loſt ſome of our People, in their Travel from the laſt Sentinal's hither, for they were much tyred, and the Cold violent, and the latter Part of that Day's Journey, they waded for many Miles through much Water, and deep Sand-hills, and when they came in ſight of Auguſteen, they ſtayed for Boats to fetch them, in which Time, ſome nummed with the Cold; Joſeph Kirle applyed himſelf to the Governor on our behalfs, to ſend us help, for he doubted whether we were all living; the Governor readily aſſented, and forthwith ſent for a Perſon fit for his purpoſe, charging him to get a Perriauger and Men, and go forthwith and fetch us, but the Tide fell out ſo that he could not go till Mid-night. The Governor was ſo concerned, that he would not go to Bed till they were gone; when the Tide ſerved, he went to the Water-ſide, and ſaw the Men put off, giving them a ſtrict Charge.

Solomon Creſſon began to tell us of his Travels from Jece, having moſt Part of the Way much Rain: The Indians were very kind unto him, until they came to the Indian-Town, where the Dutch-Men were killed; at which Place, ſome of thoſe Indians made a diſcovery of him to be no Spaniard: They ſaid nothing to him thereof, but were very dogged to him, giving him no Food, and cauſing him to lie on the Ground, amongſt Vermine. On the Morrow he was to go with his former Company, who were grown ſo extreamly bitter, and envious to him, that when they did but look upon him, they were ready to ſmite him; having gone until about mid-day, paſſing an Inlet, the Weather being extream bad, with Wind, Rain and much Cold, they put on Shoar (this was the place where we put on Shoar, and got Water-Soilders, and ſtayed for the Spaniard, when he went back to look for our People, that were to follow us in a Cannoo) but the Rage of theſe Bloody People was ſuch, that he expected to Dye. being on Shoar they readily kindled a Fire, about which time he heard a noiſe of a Boat and Oars, and preſently the Spaniſh Perreauger put on Shoar upon them: The Indians were extraordinarily ſurprized, and ſtood amazed, but Solomon was glad to ſee them, and they him: The Spaniards took the old Caſſekey's Cheſt, and whatever he had from him, commanding them to return to the Indian-Towns from whence they came; ſtaying a Night, the next Morning the Spaniards ſent Solomon under the Conduct of two Indians, belonging to theſe Towns, who were commanded by the Spaniards to carry Solomon unto the Sentinal's Houſe, but theſe two Indians carried him a little beyond the Place where we put on Shoar to Travel, and they ſeem'd as though they had Miſchief in their Hearts againſt him: He asked if they would go forward? But they looking untowardly on him, anſwered him not: So he went himſelf, and was glad when he ſaw they did not follow him.

But we were deſirous to know how the Spaniards had knowledge of us, which it ſeems was thus:

When we got to Jece, where Smith and his Company were, and we going under the Denomination of Spaniards, and the other Engliſh, the report of us run from Indian-Town to Indian-Town, to the Northward, unto the Northernmoſt Town, at which Town were two or more Indians that were converted to the Romiſh-Faith: Theſe, or one of theſe, went to the next Spanish Sentinal's, and gave an Account that he heard, that there were two Veſſels caſt away to the Southward of Jece, one being a Spaniard, the other an English Veſſel; the Spaniards having two Veſſels gone for the Havana, to ſeek for ſupplies, feared it was thoſe Veſſels: And the ſame day as this News came to the Governour of Auguſteen, came alſo News of one of their Fryar's being murdered by ſome of the Cape Indians. After this manner we underſtood it, viz. Three Fryars being under a Vow to go amongſt the Indians on the Cape to Convert them; they went to a certain Town to the Northward, off where we were caſt away, but it lay within the Sound. The Caſſekey of this Town they gained on, to embrace the Roman-Faith, but all his People were much incenſed againſt the Fryars, and therefore would have their Caſſekey renounce his Faith, and put the Fryars to Death; but he would Aſſent to neither; therefore they killed him and one Fryar, the other two eſcaped: Hereupon was a Perreauger forthwith ſent for us, of what Nation ſoever we might be, alſo a party of Spaniards and Indians were ſent againſt that Town where the Fryar was killed. We had a plentiful Supper, and we fed like People that had been half ſtarved, for we eat, not knowing when we had enough; and we found our Palates ſo changed by eating of Berries, that we could not reliſh the taſte of Salt, no more than if it had no Saltneſs in it. We had lodging provided but few Beds.

The 16th of the 9th. Month; the 2d of the Week.

This Morning we had Ice half an Inch thick, and it had been for ſome Mornings paſt, but as the Sun riſeth it's gone.

The Governour came this Morning to our Apartment inquiring how we did: We having had Chocolate for Breakfaſt, he asked if we would have any thing elſe that his Houſe could afford; If we would but ask, it ſhould be brought us: But we modeſtly anſwered. That this was ſufficient, although our Appetites were not to be ſatisfied. The Governour ſtated the Poverty of the Country unto us. The Place is a Garriſon, maintain'd one half by the King of Spain, the other half by the Church of Rome. The Male Inhabitants are all Soldiers, every one receiving Pay according to their Poſt. A Sentinal's Pay is 150 pieces of Eight a Year: And all their ſupply of Bread, Cloathing and Money, comes from the Havana and Porto-Bello: And it is going on of three Years, ſince they have had a Veſſel from any place whatſoever, which makes their Wants very great; all things being expended, except Ammunition and Salt, of which they ſaid they had enough. The Governour offered us the Freedom of what his Houſe afforded, withal, gave us a Charge to be careful in going abroad, eſpecially of ſome Perſons that did not affect our Nation: We promiſſed to be ruled, and ſubmit to the Governour's Pleaſure for our Liberty. Our People came in, and we told them the Caution; but they ſ • id, They had been all over the Town, and in many Houſes, where they were kindly received, and ſuch as the People had, they would give them. They told us of ſome Engliſh that liv'd here, and they had been at their Houſes: the chiefeſt in eſteem, was one William Carr of the Iſle of Man, who about thirty Years ago, was in a Veſſel bound for South-Carolina, but miſſing their Port, were caſt away nigh this Port; many were drowned, but he, and ſome others, were brought hither by the Indians, ſome of them got away in Spaniſh Veſſels, others dyed here: This Man turned Roman Catholick, and Married a Spaniſh Woman, of whom he had ſeven Children, and is an Officer in the Garriſon; He was chief Interpreter.

This Day came Joſeph Kirle's Negro Ben, he gave us this Account, That after we had ſent him back, he having looked, and not finding my Kinſman, went to ſeek for a place to ſhelter himſelf from the Cold, and ſome place he found to creep in, where he lay down, and continued there all Night, but by Morning, was ſo ſtiff with Cold that he could not uſe his Legs, but halled himſelf towards the Bay. The Spaniard, our Guide, from the firſt Sentry-houſe, the Morning after we went thence, returned along the Bay, to ſee if any of our People were living; but he found all dead, except Negro Ben. and he getting a Fire made, Negro Ben. was recovered, and got the uſe of his Limbs.

William Carr, the interpreter, acquainted u • , That the Governour, and two Royal Officers, would examine us, concerning our being caſt aw • y, and what Goods and Moneys was loſt in our Veſſel, and concerning our Hardſhips among the Florida-Indians, &c. Which was done and every one did ſign it. This took up two or three Days time to compleat it. After this was done the Governour told us, that he expected Captain Sebaſtian Lopas in ſome few Days; and after his Arrival, he would provide for our going to Carolina, with Cannoos, and Men to guard us.

This Week my Wife was taken with a Fever and Ague, which held her three Days, and then left her. The Governour ordered his own Doctor to adminiſter ſuch things as were helpful. The Governour's k •• dn • ſs is to us all was extraordinary; for he would daily e • quire of us, if we wanted any thing which he • ad; or which he gave us an account; and we eat no worſe than he d • d.

The Town we ſaw from one end to the other; it is of about three quarters of a Mile in length, not regularly Built, the Houſes not very thick; they having large Orchards, in which are plenty of Oranges Lemmons, Pome-Citrous, Lymes, Figgs and Peaches: The Houſes, moſt of them, old Buildings; and not half of them Inhabited. The Number of Men being about Three Hundred, that belong to the Government; and many of them are kept as Sentinals at their Look outs. At the North-end of the Town ſtandeth a large Fortification, being a Quadrangle with Baſtions; each Baſtion will contain thirteen Guns; but there was not paſt. Two thirds ot Fifty two mounted. In the Curtin they cannot mount any Guns, being only for ſmall Arms. The Wall of the Fortifications is about thirty Foot high, built of ſaw'd Stone, ſuch as they g • t out of the Sand, between the Sea and the Sound. This Stone is only Sand and ſmall Shells connexed together, being not very hard, till expoſed to the Sun. The Fort is moated round; they would not admit us to come near the Fort; bur Joſeph Kirle took an opportunity, and walked round about it.

The 23d of the 9th Month; the 2d of the Week:

This Day Joſeph Kirle and I, conſidering that the latter end of this Week was talked of, for our ſetting forward towards Carolina (which the Spaniards ca'l St. George's) We concluded to endeavour to provide ourſelves if we could, with Cloathing; conſidering we ſhould be expoſed to all the Weather that might happen, and have no ſhelter but what we carry with us: Therefore we were inclined to ſell, he his, and I one or two of my Negroes, to provide us Clothing and Proviſions. We addreſſed ourſelves to the Governour, and withal offered him, if he pleaſed to except the choice of my Negroes ▪ but he denied our offer. We ſtated our Matter to him, and asked, if we might diſpoſe of our Negroes? He ſaid • e ſhould not; neither could we ſell to any Perſon but himſelf, for the King's Account, without a ſpecial Licenſe: Therefore he would conſult the two Royal Officers, and give us his anſwer.

The 24th of the 9th Month; the 3d of the Week.

This Day the Governour ſent for us, and told us, That he would give us credit for what we and the reſt of the Company, would. I told him, That my Wife and Child would want ſome warmer Cloathing; alſo Joſeph Kirle and myſelf ſhould want ſome, if to be had. He ordered us to give our account of what we ſhould want; and, if to be had, we ſhould have it: And Joſeph Kirle and I ſhould give our Obligation, to pay the Governour of Carolina what the Sum amounted unto; which we were willing to do. But we deſired that our People ſhould give us their Obligation, for what we were engaged for, on their account; which the Governour thought reaſonable. I gave in an account of particulars for Joſeph Kirle, Robert Barrow, My Self and Family: Alſo the quantity of Indian-Corn, Peaſe, ſtringed • eaf, Salt, and Earthen-Pots, for the whole Company: But Cloathing was not to be had, except as much Stuff as made a Suit for my Wife and Child, and a few Skins Joſeph Kirle and I got: I got alſo Seven Blankets, tho' the Price was great. Theſe ſerved Joſeph Kirle, Robert Barrow, My Self and Family. We had five Roves of Ammunition-Bread, ſo full of Weavel, that Corn was far better; twenty Roves of ſtrung Beef; ſixty Roves of Indian-Corn: ten Roves of Peaſe; one Rove of Salt; Jars for Water, and Earthen-Pots to boyl our Victuals 〈◊〉 .

The 25th of the 9th Month; the 4th of the Week.

The Gov • rnour ſ • ent for Joſeph Kirle and me, to certifie, That all that was to be g • t, he had got for us. And he further ſig • ned unto us, That he did expect Sebaſtian Lopas before this time; and he would not have us go till he came; for whatſoever he could get of our Money and Goods we ſhould have it every Do • t. But we ſaid, we deſired not to be detained on that account; for we had given that already over for gone from us. And as it had pleaſed God to make them the Instruments of our Preſervation, ſo we did freely give any thing of that which was, or may be d • e • ed ours, to the Governour, and theſe Perſons that were ſent for us. The Governour ſaid, He would not have any thing to do with it; for whatever he did was for Charit-ſake. Then we deſired the Soldiers ſhould have it, if any ſhould be got, which we doubted, And hereupon we Conſidered, that ſhould thoſe poor Men get nothing, we ought to allow them ſomething in General: Therefore Joſeph Kirle and I offered the Governour, That we would allow Captain Sebaſtian Lopas, and his Men, an Hundred Peices of Eight, for bring • ng us up from amongſt the Indians. The Governour was pleaſed with our Offer, and ſaid • hey ſhould have it.

About this time, Robert Barrow was taken with a grievous Belly-ach; after which he fell into a violent Flux. Several of our People were alſo taken with the Belly-ach, and a great Scouring; all which was chiefly occaſioned by our unreaſonable Eating, and not Governing ourſelves therein. Our chief Dyet was Hommeney, Herbs and Pumpions, having not much Meat. Which mean Dyet was our Preſervation: For had it been all Fleſh, we ſhould have deſtroyed our ſelves. But we had the beſt the Place afforded.

The 26th of the 9th Month; the 5th of the Week.

This Day we ſigned our Obligation, for Four Hundred Pieces of Eight; and we were to be gone the 28th or 29th Inſtant: Afrer which our People ſigned their Obligation to us, to pay their Proportion of what was provided for them in Proviſions; and their part of what ſhould be paid for their Paſſage, from the Indians to Carolina: Whereupon we made the beſt Proviſion we could. I had got ſome Wine and Brandy for my ſelf and Family, and ſome ſmall Neceſſaries for our Child, With a great, Reſolution to go through.

The 29th of the 9th Month; the 1ſt of the Week.

This Day after we had dined, Cannoos being got ready, one Captain F • anciſca de Roma, with Six Soldiers, was to go our Conductor; the Governour walked down to ſee us embarque; and taking our Farewell, he embraced ſome of us, and wiſhed us well, ſaying WE SHOULD FORGET HIM WHEN WE GOT AMONGST OUR OWN NATION. And alſo added, THAT IF WE FORGOT GOD WOULD NOT FORGET HIM. Thus in a courteous manner we parted; which was about two or three a Clock in the Afternoon, taking our departure from Aguſteen, we had about two or three Leagues to an Indian-Town, called St. a Cruce; where, b • ing landed, we were directed to the Indian Ware-Houſe: It is built round, having ſixteen Squares; on each Square is a Cabin built, and painted, whi • h will hold two People; the H • uſe being about fifty foot diameter in the middle oft he top is a ſquare opening, about fifteen Foot. This Houſe was very clean, and Fires being ready made nigh our Cabins. The Spaniſh Captain made choice of Cabins. for him and his • oldiers, and appointed eus our Cabins. In this Town they have a Fryar, and a • arge Houſe to worſhip in, with three Bells; and the Indians go as conſtantly to their Devotion, at all times and ſeaſons, as any of the Spaniards Night being come, and the time of their Devotion over the Fryar came in, and many of the Indians, both Men and Women, having a Dance, according to their way and cuſtom. We had plenty of Caſſeena-drink, and ſuch Victuals as the Indians had provided for us; ſome bringing Corn boiled, others Peaſe; ſome one thing, ſome another; of all which we made a good Supper, and ſlept till Morning.

The 30th of the 9th Month; the 2d of the Week.

This Morning early, we left this Town, having about two Leagues to go with the Canoos; then we were to travel by Land: But a Cart was provided to carry our Proviſions and Neceſſaries; in which Cart thoſe that could not travel were carried. We had about five Leagues to a Sentinal's Houſe, where we lay all Night; and next Morning traveled along the Sea-ſhoar, about four Leagues to an Inlet: Here we wanted for Cannoos to come for us, to carry us about two Miles, to a Town, called St. Juan, an Indian-Town, 〈…〉 We went through a Sk • rt of Wood into the Indian Plantations, for a Mile. In the middle of this Iſland is the Town of St. Juan, a large Town and many People They have a Fryar, and a Worſhiping-Houſe. The People are very Induſtrious, having plenty of Hogs and Fowls, and large Crops of Corn, as we could tell by their Corn-Houſes. The Indians brought us Victuals as at the laſt Town, and we lay in their Ware-Houſe, which was larger than that at the other Town.

The 2d of the 10th Month; the 4th of the Week.

This Morning the Indians brought us Victuals for Breakfaſt, and the Fryar gave my Wife ſome Loaves of Bread made of Indian-Corn, which was ſomewhat extraordinary; alſo a parcel of Fowls. About ten o Clock in the forenoon we left St. Juan, walking about a Mile from the Sound▪ where w • re Cannoos and Indians, ready to Tranſport us to the next Town; We did believe we might have come all the way along the Sound, but the Spaniards were not willing to diſcover the place unto us.

An hour before Sun-ſet we got to the Town, call'd St. Mary's: This is a Frontier, and a Garriſon Town; the Inhabitants are Indians, with ſome Spaniſh Soldiers. We were conducted to the Ware-Houſe, as the Cuſtom is, for every Town hath a Ware-Houſe: Or, as we underſtood, theſe Houſes were for their times of Mirth and Dancing and to lodge and entertain Strangers: This Houſe is about 81 Foot Diameter, built Round with 32 Squares, in each Square a Cabin about 8 Foot long, of a good height, being Painted and well Ma • ted. The Centre of this Building is a Quadrangle of 20 Foot, being open at top of the Houſe, againſt which the Houſe is Built; thus, in this Quadrangle is the place the Dance, having a great Fire in the middle: One of the Squares of this Building is the Gate-Way or Paſſage in. The Women, Natives of theſe Towns, cloath themſelves with the Mo • s of Trees, making Gowns and Peticoats thereof, which, at a diſtance, or in the Night, looks very neat. The Indian Boys, we ſaw, were kept to School in the Church the Fryar being their School-Maſter. This is the largeſt Town of all. About a Mile from this, is another Town call'd 〈…〉 At this Town of St▪ Mary' • were we to ſtay till the 5th or 6th Inſtant; where alſo we were to receive our ſixty Rov • s of Corn and ten Rov • s of Peaſe; while we ſtayed we had one half of our Corn beaten into Meal by the Indians, the other we kept whole not knowing what Weather we ſhould have: for the Fryar of this Town, ſome Years paſt, was at Charles Town, in South-Carolina, and he had a Months Paſſage in going, about this time of the Year: This News was very unpleaſant, to think of lying out a Month at this Seaſon, having been ſo Weather-beaten before; but we endeavoured to ſhun looking back, conſidering how great our Preſervation had been hitherto. While we ſtayed here, we were willing to make all the Proviſion we could, for Back and Belly: We got of the Indians, plenty of Garlick and long Pepper, to ſeaſon our Corn and Peaſe, both which were griping and windy: And we made us wooden Trays, and Spoons to eat with: We got Ruſhes, and made a ſort of a platted Rope thereof; the uſe we chiefly intended it for, was to be ſerviceable to help us in building Huts, or Tents with, at ſuch times as we ſhould meet with hard Weather.

The time drawing on, that we were to leave this Town, we had ſeven large Cannoos provided to carry us, being in all about ſixty Perſons; eighteen of us, S • x of Smith's Company, ſeven Spaniards, and thirty odd Indians, which were to Row the Cannoos, and be our Pilo • s. We had ſome Indians from all the Towns, and two Caſſekeys. We underſtood that the Carolina-Indians, called the Yammaſees, which are related to theſe Indians, were here about a Month ſince, trading for Deer-Skins.

I have omitted a conſiderable Paſſage that happened in Auguſteen: The Woman, named Penelope, being big with Child, by the Spaniards Perſwaſion, ſtayed with them: Alſo Joſeph Kirle's Boy, named John Hillier, w • • tained by the Spaniards. Joſeph Kirle ſtrove hard with the Governour, that he might have his Boy; but the Lad was conveyed out of Town, and not be found. The Governour promiſed that he would ſend him after him if poſſible; but the Boy came not to us, and we were to depart hence on the Morrow.

The 5th of the 10th Month; the 1ſt of the Week.

This Morning we embarqued, and departed this place, and put into the Town St. Phillips, where the Spaniſh Captain invited us on Shoar, to drink Caſſeena, which we did: The Spaniards having left ſomething behind, we ſtayed here about an hour, and then ſet forward. About two or three Leagues hence, we came in ſight of an Indian-Town, called Sappataw, but we went about a League to the Northward of it, to a Sentinel's Houſe, where we put our Boats on Shoars and had Caſſeena brought us, making no ſtay, we went hence, rowing till next Morning: In the Night we had loſt our Way, but got to rights in a little time.

The 7th of the 10th Month; the 2d of the Week.

This Morning we pu • Shoar, having paſt an Inlet of the Sea, and here we dreſt ſome Victuals, and got a little Sleep, until the Tide ſerved. Some of our Indians went out a Hunting for Deer and Hogs, of both which the Spaniards ſaid, there was plenty, and when the Tide ſerved, we were to go to the Nothernmoſt end of this Iſland, and ſtay for the Hunters. One of the Indians brought a Deer, which he threwed down among the other Indians, and he went out again to Hunt, to the North end of the Iſland, where we were to rendezvouſe for this Night. We ſet forward about ten a Clock, and got to the Place appointed, an hour or two before Sun-ſet, it being a fine lofty Wood, we employed our ſelves in geting Fire-Wood fo • the Night, and Moſs to lye on, of both which we got plenty, having a large Oak to lye under. The Indians brought in ſeveral Hogs and Deer, of which we had part, ſo that we fared richly; having a pleaſant Nights repoſe, we got up, to be gone about an hour before Day.

The 8th of the 10th Month; the 3d of the Week.

This Day hav • ng rowed from the laſt place, until two hours before Sun- • et, we put on Shoar, at a place where had been an Indian Settlement, it being on a high Bank, from whence we had a P • oſpect of the Sound: Here we employed our ſelves to go and fetch Buſhes, to make ſh •• ter againſt the Wind and Dews of the Night, and in cutting o • dry Graſs to lye on, and getting of Wood, which was at a conſiderable diſtance, but we reſolved to have it, if Labour would purchaſe it. Thoſe that were not employed in theſe ſervices, were providing of Water and Victuals, for we had always enough to do. We had a pleaſant Night, and reſted well.

The 9th of the 10th Month; the 4th of the Week.

This Morning about Sun-riſing, we ſaw a Cannoo of Carolina-Indians, a going to the Southward a Hunting; they kept the Weſtern ſide of the Sound being fearful of us; we had a Cannoo manned with Indians and Spaniards, to go after them, to ſpeak to them, being deſirous to get them to carry Letters to inform of our coming, not knowing but ſhe might Alarm the Qut-Settlements of Carolina. This Cannoo of ours, purſued the other, but the Carolina-Indians put on Shoar, run into a Marſh, and Fired at our People: The Spaniſh-Indians, who could ſpeak the Yammaw's Language, called unto them, and told them their buſineſs, withal entreating them to come unto them, but they anſwered, that they were going a Hunting for the Seaſon, therefore deſired them to be gone, for they would not come near them: Thus our People returned unto us. The Carolina-Indians went their way, and we prepared to go forward. We having the Caſſekey of St. Juan with us, ſent him away laſt Night, to ſee if he could meet any of the Yammawſee-Indians of Carolina, he being acquainted with and related to them; but this Ca ••• o paſſed him: We ſet forward, and rowed all the day, till about an hour before Sun-ſet, and then we put on Shoar at an Indian-Field, which was overgrown with S • ge, it being low wet Land: Here we made our accuſtomed Proviſion for Lodging, lying this N • ght in a Wood, having dreſſed Victuals for this time, and to Morrow; and having reſted well this Night, about Day-break or ſooner, we left th • s place.

The 10 • h of the 10th Month, the 5th of the Week.

Th • Day about • en a Clock, we cro • s'd an Inlet, but the T • de being againſt us, we put on Shoar at an old Indian-Fie • d: At this place under the Shelter of ſome Trees, was the Caſſekey of St. Juan. Here we ſtayed and drank ſome Caſſeena: There was abundance of Rabbets, but we made no ſtay. Not paſſing two hours, the Caſſekey was ſent before to make diſcovery, and we followed, rowing until an hour before Sun-ſet, by which time we got to the place, called St. Catalena, where hath been a great Settlement of Indians, for the Land hath been cleared for Planting, for ſome Miles diſtant: Here alſo we met the Caſſekey; alſo a Canoo of Carolina-Indians, being a Man, his Wife, and Children, having his Dogs, and other Hunting Implements, for to lye out this Winter Seaſon. The Spaniſh Captain, by his Interpreter, diſcourſed him about carrying our Letters, which he readily aſſented unto; whereupon the Spaniſh Captain ſet himſelf to writing to the Governor of Carolina.

We had a large Field to lye in, and no manner of Shelter but what was a Mile diſtant or more; but we ſpared not pains, but ſome fell to cutting of Boughs and Bruſh, at that great diſtance, ſome to carrying it to the Place, ſome to get Fire-Wood, ſo that by Night we had a brave Shelter.

The Spaniſh Captain ſent for me, to write to the Governor of Carolina; which I did: I wrote alſo to a Perſon of my acquaintance there. The Letters being finiſhed, and Night coming on, I delivered my Letters to the Captain, and returned to my Company. By this time they had compleated our Booth, which we thought was ſufficient, if no Rain fell. We provided our Victuals for our Supper, and for the next Day's Travel; as alſo ſome dry Graſs to lye on, in hopes of reſting well this Night. About ten at Night the Carolina-Indians went with our Letters for Carolina.

The 11th of the 10th Month; the 6th of the Week.

This Morning, about two hours before Day, we had a Guſt of Wind at the North-Weſt; and the Sky was overcaſt, and looked as tho' we ſhould have abundance of Rain. In a little time the Rain fell; againſt which we had no Shelter, but our Blankets. The Rain held until break of Day, at which time began the North-Weſt Wind to blow violent hard and cold. Our Shelter was fronting the North-Weſt; and we fell to work to ſhift our Booth, and to getting more Boughs, Bruſh and Graſs; the Graſs was to fill and keep up a Bank of Earth which we raiſed about three or four Foot high, to break the Wind from us: All this Day were we employed in enlarging our Booth, and geting of Wood for Firing. The North-Weſt blew extream hard; and this Night was hard, getting but little reſt, the Cold pinching us.

The 12th of the 10th Month; the 7th of the Week.

This Day, the Wind continued without ceaſing. We began to mend what the Wind had put out of order by Night; and heaved up more Earth on our Booth, and made ſome inlargements; for we were not negligent by Day, to provide for the Night, which pinched us with cold, eſpecially aged Robert Barrow; who, having a violent Flux, that had held him from Auguſteen hither, and by the violent Cold, being grown on him, ſo that he could not govern his w • akneſs, nor get natural Reſt; he was extreamly racked with the Cold, that in this juncture of Hardſhip we could get no warmth in him; but he was contented with our mean help, although he received little benefit by it. This Day at times, we went out to get Wood, having along way to go in an open Field, and the Cold almoſt numming us, by that time we could get to the Booth. This Evening the Wind was ſomewhat abated, and we were in great hopes it was over; but it blowed fiercely the latter part of the Night.

The 13th of the 10th Month; the 1ſt of the Week.

This Morning the Wind was ſomething abated, and the Sun gave forth a little warmth: Joſeph Kirle borrowed a Gun, Powder and Shot, of the Spaniards, and went to kill ſome wild Geeſe, or what other Game he might come up with; but he had no ſucceſs, coming home without any Game. And we were well content with a Dinner of Indian-Corn, and Strung Beef. The Spaniſh-Indians hunted all theſe three Days, and kill'd ſeveral Deer; but they eat them as faſt as they kil • 'd them, having little or no other Proviſion, their Corn being ſpent. The latter part of this Day, the Wind was very moderate, and we hoped to be going the next Morning. Whereupon we provided for the next Day's Travel.

The 14th of the 10th. Month; the 2d of the Week.

This Morning we Embarqued, and ſet forward, having fair Weather, the Wind down; we rowed all Day until three a Clock, being come to a great Inlet of the Sea; but the Weather looked, as though we ſhould have Wind and Rain; and to croſs the Inlet would be dangerous, it being about two Leagues over, and little Wind, making a rough Sea. So we put on Shoar, it being high Land, and lofty Woods, moſtly Pine and Live Oaks. Here we made all the expedition we could to get Shelter againſt the Weather. The Indians ſet to work, to build themſelves little Huts or Wigwams, which they had not done til now. They got ſmall Palmetto-Leaves, and covered their Buildings, but ours were covered moſtly with Boughs, which would not keep out much Rain. By Night we had a great deal of Rain and Wind. And it being the Evening of the Spaniards Chriſtmas, they uſed ſome of their Ceremonies, with tinkling on a piece of Iron, and Singing, begging for ſomewhat for the Day following: They begged of the Indians, and the Indians in like manner begged of the Spaniards; and what the Indians gave the Spaniards, that was returned to the Indians.

The 16th of the 10th Month; the 4th of the Week.

This Morning was very foggy, and proved a Rainy Day; but we kept rowing until two in the Afternoon, the Rain being hard, and the Wind increaſed at N. E. We put on Shoar; but the Captain told us, we ſhould not ſtay here long, he intended further, and if the Weather permitted, would go all Night but the Weather was likely to be worſe rather than better; and we ſate in the Rain until Night was come; then we entreated the Captain, that we might ſtay all Night, and that we might provide againſt the Weather; but he pretended the Weather would break up, and he would be gone; but there was no like • ihood of it: The Rain was increaſed, and we all wet and ſtarv'd with Cold: At length he aſſented to ſtay. Then were we hard put to it, (being Night) to provide Shelter, But in the dark did we work, until we had made us a Shelter, that would keep the Rain from us. Having Fires, we pu • • ff our wet Clothes, and dry'd them as well as we could. Towards Morning, the Rain broke up.

The 17th of the 10th Month; the 5th of the Week.

This Morning at Sun-riſing, we ſet Forward, and Rowed until Noon; at which time we came to an Inlet, and put a Shoar; there we ſtayed all this Afternoon, and dryed our Blankets, and what was not dry'd laſt Night; we alſo dreſſed our Victuals. And as ſoon as it was dark, went hence, deſigning to Row all Night; but having an intricate Paſſage amongſt Marſhes, where were divers Creeks and Ways, that we rowed ſomet • mes in a wrong one; then back again, and rowed in another; about Mid-night our Pilots were at a loſs, not knowing which way to go, nor where to find any dry Land, that we might go on Shoar: But three of our Boats rowed until we found a dry Knap to get on Shoar, where we lay until day, having good Fires. As ſoon as it was light, we got our Boats, and went to look for the reſt of our Company, whom we found, having made their Cannoos faſt to the Sedge, and ſiting therein until we came to them.

The 18th of the 10th Month; the 6th of the Week.

The Night was exteam Foggy, and ſo was this Morning; but we ſearched about and found our Paſſage, being a little Channel juſt broad enough for our Boats to paſs, and a Mile in length. After we paſt this, we came into a great Sound, which went down into a large Inlet, that the Land could not be ſeen from the one ſide to the other. Into the Sound comes down a great River, called the Savanna-River; which, when we got into the Courſe of it, the Water was freſh, tho' in this great Sound; the Spaniards called it, the Croſs-Bar, or St. a Cruce. About Noon we got over this Sound; and here we rowed out to Sea for two Leagues, to get into another Sound. And about three a Clock, the Wind began to blow at North-Eaſt, and it looked very black, ſo that we feared a Storm. We deſired to get on Shoar, to provide againſt it; but the Captain ſaid, about a few Leagues further we ſhould get near Port-Royal: But in the interim, we ſaw a Cannoo on the Shoar; we made to her, and there we found ſome Indian Wigwams: Here we went on Shoar. This was a Cannoo, laden with Skins, that belonged to Merchants at Carolina, having four Indians belonging to her, but three of them run away fearing the Spaniards, and one ſtay'd. The Indian Wigwams were in a bad Condition, not fit to keep out the Weather; ſo we ſet to work to mend them. Here was plenty of Palmetto-Leaves, with which we covered them, and made Addition to them; but the Storm of Wind and Rain came violently before we could compleat our work, and held all Night, yet we lay indifferent dry, though the Storm was very great.

The 19th of the 10th Month; the 7th of the Week.

This Morning the Storm of Wind continued at N. E. with Rain; we, being likely to ſtay ſome time here, enlarged our Wigwam, fearing a North-Weſter; which about ten a Clock this Day, began to blow fiercely, with Snow, for ſome hours. The Wind was ſo violent, that we feared, leſt the tall Pines ſhould be blown on us. We ſent the Carolina-Indian out, to bring his three Mates in; but they would not. The Spaniſsh-Indians made great Complaint for Food; We gave amongſt them four Rove of Corn, being unwilling to ſpare any more, not knowing how long we ſhould be detained by the Weather. Some of our People had almoſt eaten up their ſhares, and we expected, ſhould we be detained long, we muſt ſupply them with what we had to ſpare,

The 20th of the 10th. Month; the 1ſt of the Week.

This Day the Wind continued at N. E. and extream cold it was; but we, in our Wigwam, were well enough ſecured from cold. About Noon our Marriners Wigwams got Fire, and was burnt; their's was the leeward-moſt of all (for we had Eight Wigwams) otherwiſe the whole had been in danger. We underſtood that we were not paſſing two or three days Journey from the Engliſh Settlements; but the Spaniſh • Indians told us that it was more, till we were better inform • ed, by this Indian, who belonged to that place.

The 21ſt of the 10th Month; the 2d of the Week.

This Day early, we ſet forward, and paſſed Port-Roya • Sound, being ſome Leagues over; and about two a Clock i • the Afternoon we put on Shoar, the Tide being againſt us. Here was a cloſe Wood, where we lay indifferent well all Night.

The 22d of the 10th Month; the 3d of the Week.

This Morning early, we ſet forward, and rowed all Day, until one a Clock in the Afternoon; at which time we got to the firſt Settlement in Carolina, belonging to one Richard Bennet, who received us kindly, and provided plentifully for us, of good Food, and good Drink, ſhewing the Spaniards all kindneſs poſſibly he could, for our ſakes, which the Spaniards did acknowledge: We ſtayed here all Night,

The 23d of the 10th Month; the fourth of the Week.

This Morning having Eaten plentifully, and Drank alſo, we went hence, in Company of ſome of the Inhabitants, about ten a Clock, and rowed until two hours within Night, having paſſed by ſeveral Plantations, we put on Shoar, on a Point of Land, to wait a Tide, having a Wood to ſhelter in, and making good Fires, we ſtayed until Mid-night, at which time we went thence, and rowed until an hour or two before Day, by which time we got to Governor Blake's Houſe.

The 24th of the 10th Month; the 5th of the Week.

This Morning when the Governor aroſe, he ſent for Joſeph Kirle, John Smith, Andrew Murrey and Me, making enquiry of us concerning our Paſ • age, and on what account the Spaniards came with us. We rendred him an account of the Governor of Auguſteen's Generoſity towards us, and that he ſent us freely, without any Demands, except what he had freely Contracted: The Governor ſent for the Spaniſh Captain in, and received the Letters that were ſent from the Governor of Auguſteen; alſo our Obligation, which the Governor accepted. The Governor ſhewed a great deal of kindneſs to us, made inquiry into all our Conditions. Robert Barrow he ſent to his Neighbour, Margaret Bammers, who, he ſaid, would be careful and Nurſe him: She was an Ancient Friend, about two Miles diſtant; ſo he went on Horſe-Back. The Governor clothed Joſeph Kirle, John Smith, Andrew Murrey, Me, my Wife and Child; to the reſt of our People, he gave each of them a Duff • l Blanket, which would keep them Warm; and plenty of Victuals and drink was provided: We obtained leave of the Governor, to permit the Spaniards to go to Charles-Town wiih us, being willing to gratify them according to our Abilities.

The 25th of the 10th Month; the 6th of the VVeek.

This Day in the Afternoon, Joſeph Kirle, John Smith, I, my Wife and Child, went to Margaret Bammers, where Robert Barrow was; ſtaying all Night, till next Morning, when the Spaniards called for us as they came by Water.

The 26th of the 10th Month; the 7th of the VVeek.

This Morning we went hence with the Spaniards, for Charles-Town, where we arrived about an hour within Night. The Gentlemen of the Town appointed a publick Houſe, of good Credit, to entertain the Spaniards with Meat, and Drink, and Lodging, which was done to the Spaniards Admiration; they ſtayed here eight days. We got our People together, and agreed jointly, to give the Spaniards a hundred pieces of eight▪ which Joſeph Kirle and I divided amongſt them, according to their degrees, we two adding to the Sum.

The 4 • h of the 11th Month; the 2d of the VVeek.

Joſeph Kirle and I provided a ſmall Preſent to ſend to the Governor of Au ••• teen, and this day we went with the Spaniards to Governo • Bl • ke's, ſtaying there one day▪ the Governor treated 〈◊〉 Sp • ds, and having compleated his Letters, gave th • 〈…〉 a conſiderable Preſent, and ſent him home • 〈…〉 to call on the Yammaſee-Indians, where they might h • as much Indian-Corn as they pleaſed, to carry home with 〈◊〉 ; the Town of theſe Indians, being about two or th • 〈◊〉 rowing from Charles-Town.

The 9 • h 〈◊〉 the 11th Month; the 7th of the VVeek.

This Day I returned, with my Wife and Child, to Charles-Town, leaving R • bert Barrow in a weak and low Condition with Margaret Bammer. I, my Wife and Family, with Joſep • Kirle, were entertained by Captain James Risbee, the time o • our ſtay in Carolina. Our Sea-men were moſtly imployed, ſome in one Veſſel, and ſome in another, that belong'd to the Port

The 6th of the 12th Month; the 2d of the VVeek.

Joſeph Kirle went hence to the Iſland of Providence, i • hopes of gaining a ſpeedy Paſſage for Penſylvania, the place of his ab • de,

Towards the begining of this Month, Robert Barrow was brought to Charles-Town, being extream Weak, and was Lodged at the Houſe of Mary Croſs, who nurſed him.

Thy 18th of the 1ſt Month; the 5th of the VVeek.

This Day, I, with my Family, and Robert Barrow, Embarqued, and ſet Sail from this place for Pennſylvania, and had fourteen Days Paſſage to Philadelphia.

The 4th of the 2d Month; the 1ſt of the VVeek.

This Day in the Evening, Robert Barrow departed this Life, and was Buried the ſixth Inſtant, having paſſed through great Exerciſes, in much Patience; and in all the Times of our greateſt Troubles, was ready to councel us to Patience, and to wait what the Lord our God would bring to paſs: And he would often expreſs, That it was his Belief, that our Lives ſhould be ſpared, and not be loſt in that Wilderneſs, and amongſt thoſe People, who would have made a Prey of us. And ſo this good Man, having finiſhed his Courſe with Joy; laid down his Body, and is with Him who rewards the juſt.

Thus having compleated our hard Paſſage hither, wherein God's great Mercy, and wonderful loving Kindneſs, hath been largely extended unto us, in delivering and preſerving us, to this Day and Time; I hope that I, with all thoſe of us, that have been ſpared hitherto, ſhall never be forgetful nor unmindful of the low Eſtate we were brought unto; but that we may double our Deligence in ſerving the Lord God, is the Breathing, and earneſt Deſire of my Soul. Amen.

Jonathan Dickinſon.