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 [Page 10] 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 [Page 11] 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, [Page 12] 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. [Page 13] 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.

[Page 15]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 [Page 16] 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 [Page 17] 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; [Page 18] 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 [Page 19] 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, [Page 20] 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 [Page 21] 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 [Page 22] 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 [Page 23] 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 [Page 24] 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 [Page 25] 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 [Page 26] 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 [Page 27] 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 [Page 28] 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 [Page 29] 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 [Page 30] 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 [Page 31] 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 [Page 32] 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 [Page 33] 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 [Page 35] 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 [Page 36] 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 [Page 37] 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' [Page 38] 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; [Page 39] 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 [Page 40] 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 [Page 41] 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 [Page 42] 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 [Page 43] 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 [Page 44] 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 [Page 45] 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 [Page 46] 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 [Page 47] 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 [Page 48] 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 [Page 49] 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, [Page 50] 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 [Page 51] 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 [Page 52] 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 [Page 53] 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 [Page 54] 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 [Page 55] 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 [Page 56] 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 [Page 57] 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 [Page 58] 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 [Page 59] 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.

[Page 60]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 [Page 61] 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 [Page 62] 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 [Page 63] 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 [Page 64] 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 [Page 65] 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, [Page 66] 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 [Page 67] 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.

[Page 68]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 [Page 69] 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' [...] [Page 70] 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, [Page 72] 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 [Page 73] 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 [Page 74] 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 [Page 75] 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 [Page 76] 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; [Page 77] 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 [Page 78] 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 [Page 79] 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, [Page 80] 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.