Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2015
ANTHONY KNIVET his comming to the R of Janero, and usage amongst the Portugals, and Indians: his divers travels thorow divers Regions of those parts.
The next day our ship weighed Anchor, and whether shee went I knew not, wee were carried by the Portugals to the River of Janero. I went with a Mestizo, which is halfe a Portugall, and halfe a Savage that saved my life in the night when I was taken. When we came to the Citie of San Sebastian in the River of Janero, the Portugals in the Canoas, made such a noyse, with Pipes and Drummes, that all the people of the Citie came to shoare to│see us, with that the Canoas going round, as if they were in fight, two Portugals tooke mee, and cast me towards the shoare, saying, here is our prize; the tyde being strong carried mee to the mayne, where I had beene drowned had it not beene for a woman, who seeing the tyde carry me away, sent two or three slaves, and they saved mee. When I came ashoare, all the Portugals were at the Church of our Lady, and I would have gone into the Church, but the Portugals would not let me, saying, that I was not a Christian. Then I was brought before the Governour, and he gave me to the man that had saved mee, and I was very well contented, for hee used mee very kindly as I came with him from the Iland of San Sebastian. For the space of three moneths that I was with this man, I kept a house, and went to the Sea-side with his Hogs, and there I every day brought him home a basket of great Crabs that lie in the holes of the mud, as deepe as you can thrust in your arme. This was a good life, my Master called me sonne, and I dined and supped with him: also I had a hanging Net to lie in, and lay in the same roome which hee lay in.
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