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HISTORY OF THE ROS1CRUCIANS.
it may be made convenient for you ;
then you may send for
your sick and the rest of your number." We thanked him,
and said that this care which he took of desolate strangers
God would reward, and six of us went ashore with him.
He led us thorow three faire streets, and all the way there
were gathered some people on both sides in a row,
but in
so civill a fashion as if it had been not to wonder at us, but
to welcome us. Divers of them as we passed put their
arms a little abroad, which is their gesture when they bid
any welcome. The strangers' house is faire and spacious,
built of brick, and with handsome windows, some of glass,
some of a kind of cambrick oyled. He brought us into a
faire parlour above staires, and then asked what number of
sick 1 We answered that
we were in all 250, whereof our sick were seventeen. He
persons we were, and how many
desired us to stay till he came back, which was about an
houre after, and then he led us to see the chambers pro-
vided for us, being in number 250. They
cast it that foure
of those chambers, which were better than the rest, might
receive foure of our principal men ; the rest were to lodge
us. The chambers were handsome, cheerful, and furnished
civilly.
Then he led us to a long gallery, where he showed
us along one side seventeen cells, having partitions of cedar,
which gallery and cells, being in all 900, were instituted as
an infirmary. He told us withall that as any one sick waxed
well he might be removed to a chamber, for which purpose
there were set forth ten spare chambers. This done, he
brought us back to the parlour, and lifting up
his cane a
little, as they doe when they give any command, said to
us :
" Ye are to know that the custom of the land requireth
that, after this day and to-morrow, which we give you for
removing your people from your ship, you are to keep within