. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others. onest and discreetemen whom I might relie upon as trustie friends, anduse as companions both for advise and societie, for Iam now very uncomfortably matched, having no worldlystrength to trust upon but my selfe onely. I have sentunto you foure Indians, principall men in their Countrie,which were delivered unto me as pledges of our safetieshere, and they are to returne again the first, but Ithinke some of them will be more willing to stay Eng
. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others. onest and discreetemen whom I might relie upon as trustie friends, anduse as companions both for advise and societie, for Iam now very uncomfortably matched, having no worldlystrength to trust upon but my selfe onely. I have sentunto you foure Indians, principall men in their Countrie,which were delivered unto me as pledges of our safetieshere, and they are to returne again the first, but Ithinke some of them will be more willing to stay English man which was left here by Captain Lea, Captaine dead, I pray you procure Sir Walter RawleighesIndian or my Lord Admirals, for I want an Interpreterexceedingly, here is but one, and he understandeth butlittle to any purpose. I pray forget not to sendPreachers, sober and discreete men, and such as arewell perswaded of the Church government in England,&c. From Principium, or Mount Howard this second ofJuly 1604. [Chap. 1605. Lucia. CaptaineNick. SaintJohn staieth atSaint Luciawith 67. PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES Chap. XIII. A true Relation of the traiterous massacre of themost part of threescore and seven Englishmen, set on land out of a Ship of Sir OliphLeagh, bound for Guiana, in Santa Lucia anHand of the West Indie, the three andtwentieth of August, written by John Nicol. Ir Oliph Leagh, a worshipfull Knight ofKent, sending a supply of good numbersof men in a Ship called the Oliphblossome to his brother Master CharlesLeigh, which was planted in the Riverof Wiapogo, within three degrees and anhalfe Northward of the Equinoctiall linein the West Indies, which departed from Wolwich thefoureteenth of Aprill 1605, under the conduct of CaptaineCataline, and Captaine Nicholas Sainct John; I Seeingdesirous to see the world, consorted my selfe withthat company. But by contrary windes and unknownecurrents of the Sea, and the unskilfulnesse o
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