pinnace, got clear of the frigate, and with all haste recovered their
ship: where within an hour after, this young man of great hope, ended
his days, greatly lamented of all the company.

Thus having moored our ships fast, our Captain resolved to keep himself
close without being descried, until he might hear of the coming of the
Spanish Fleet; and therefore set no more to sea; but supplied his
wants, both for his own company and the Cimaroons, out of his aforesaid
magazine, beside daily out of the woods, with wild hogs, pheasants, and
guanas: continuing in health (GOD be praised) all the meantime, which
was a month at least; till at length about the beginning of January,
half a score of our company fell down sick together (3rd January, 1573),
and the most of them died within two or three days. So long that we
had thirty at a time sick of this _calenture_, which attacked our men,
either by reason of the sudden change from cold to heat, or by reason of
brackish water which had been taken in by our pinnace, through the sloth
of their men in the mouth of the river, not rowing further in where the
water was good.

Among the rest, JOSEPH DRAKE, another of his brethren, died in our
Captain's arms, of the same disease: of which, that the cause might
be the better discerned, and consequently remedied, to the relief of
others, by our Captain's appointment he was ripped open by the surgeon,
who found his liver swollen, his heart as it were sodden, and his guts
all fair. This was the first and last experiment that our Captain made
of anatomy in this voyage.

The Surgeon that cut him open, over-lived him not past four days,
although he was not touched with that sickness, of which he had been
recovered about a month before: but only of an over-bold practice which