The savages strove by day and by night to murder us, till it was
no longer safe to go in search of oysters or wildfowl, and from
wheat which had lain so long in the holds of the ships that nearly
every grain in it had a worm, did we get our only nourishment.
The labor of building the palisade was most grievous, and it was
not within the power of man to continue it while eating such food;
therefore the sickness came upon us, when it was as if all had been
condemned to die.
A TIME OF SICKNESS AND DEATH
The first who went out from among us, was John Asbie, on the sixth
of August. Three days later George Flowers followed him. On the
tenth of the same month William Bruster, one of the gentlemen, died
of a wound given by the savages while he was searching for gold,
and two others laid down their lives within the next eight and
forty hours.
Then the deaths came rapidly, gentlemen as well as serving men or
laborers, until near eighty of our company were either in the grave,
or unable to move out of such shelters as served as houses.
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