but a few roots and herbs, with little substance in them, and of which the natives gave them but very sparingly.  Many were the ways they took to civilize and teach the savages, but in vain; for they would not own them to be their instructors, whose lives were owing to their bounty.  Their extremities were very great and many days being entirely without food, the savages there being more indolent and less devouring than those who had better supplies.  When they went out to battle they were obliged to assist these people, in one of which my faithful Spaniard being taken, had like to have been devoured.  They had lost their ammunition, which rendered their fire-arms useless; nor could they use the bows and arrows that were given them, so that while the armies were at a distance, they had no chance but when close, then they could be of service with halberts, & sharpened sticks put into the muzzles of their muskets.  They made themselves targets of wood covered with the skins of wild beasts; and when one happened to be knocked down, the rest of the company fought over him till he recovered; and then standing close in a line, they would make their way through a thousand savages.  At the return of their friend, who they thought had been entombed in the bowels of their enemies, their joy was inconceivable.  Nor were they less surprised at the sight of the loaves of bread I had sent them, things that they had not seen for several years, at the same time crossing and blessing it, as though it was manna sent from Heaven:  but when they knew the errand, and perceived the boat which was to carry them back to the person and place from whence such relief came, this struck them with such a surprise of joy as made some of them faint away, and others burst out into tears.

This was the summary account that I had from them.  I shall now inform the reader what I next did for them, and in what condition I left them.  As we were all of opinion that the savages would scarce trouble them any more, so we had no apprehensions on the score.  I told them I was come purely to establish, and not to remove them; and upon that occasion, had not only brought them necessaries for convenience and defence, but also artificers, and other persons, both for their necessary employments, and to add to their number.  They were altogether when I thus talked to them; and before I delivered to them the stores I brought, I asked them, one by one, if they had entirely forgot their first animosities, would engage in the strictest friendship; and shake hands with one another?  On this Will Atkins, with abundance of good humour, said, they had afflictions enough to make them all sober, and enemies enough to make them all friends:  as for himself, be would live and die among them, owning that what the Spaniards had done to him, his own mad humour had made necessary for them to do.  Nor had the Spaniards occasion to justify their proceeding to me; but they told me, that since Will Atkins