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ROSJCRUC1AN APOLOGISTS : JOHN HEYDON. 353
doores for three dayes ;
do not think yourselves restrained,
but rather left to your rest. You shall want nothing ; there
are six^'of our people appointed to attend you for any
businesse you may have abroad." We gave him thanks
with all affection and respects, and said : " God surely
is manifested in this land." We offered him also twenty
pistolets, but he smiled, and said: "What! twice paid!"
and so left us. Soon after our dinner was served
in, which was right good viands both for bread, meat,
wine, &c., better than any
diet that I have known in
Europe. We had drink of three sorts, ale, beer, syder, all
wholesome ;
wine of the grape, and another drink of grain,
like our mum but more clear, and a kinde of perry, like the
peare juice, made of a fruit of that countrey,
a wonderful 1
pleasing and refreshing drink. Besides, there were brought
in great store of those scarlet oranges for our sick, which
were an assured remedy for sicknesse taken at sea. There
was given us also a box of small grey pills which they wished
our sick should take, one every night before sleeping, to
hasten their recovery.
The next day, after that our trouble
of carriage of our men and goods out of our ship was some-
what settled, I thought good to call our company together,
"
My dear friends, let us know our-
and said unto them ;
selves, and how it standeth with us. We are cast on land,
as Jonas was out of the whale's belly, when we were as
buried in the deep, and now we are on land, we are but
between death and life, for we are beyond both the old
world and the new. Whether ever we shall see Europe
God onely knoweth. A kinde of miracle hath brought us
hither, and it must be little lesse that shall take us hence.
Thereforejin regard of our deliverance past, and danger
present, let us look to God and every man reform his own
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