Her husband was not then in
the village. Some of her people she commanded to draw our boat on shore,
for the beating of the billow. Others she appointed to carry us on their
backs to the dry ground, and others to bring our oars into the house for
fear of stealing.
[3] The site of the colony established in the following year, 1585.
When we were come into the utter room--having five rooms in her
house--she caused us to sit down by a great fire, and after took off our
clothes and washed them and dried them again. Some of the women plucked
off our stockings and washed them, some washed our feet in warm water,
and she herself took great pains to see all things ordered in the best
manner she could, making great haste to dress some meat for us to eat.
After we had thus dried ourselves, she brought us into the inner room,
where she set on the board standing along the house some wheat like
frumenty, sodden venison and roasted, fish sodden, boiled and roasted,
melons raw and sodden, roots of divers kinds, and divers fruits. Their
drink is commonly water, but while the grape lasteth they drink wine,
and for want of casks to keep it, all the year after they drink water;
but it is sodden with ginger in it, and black cinnamon, and sometimes
sassafras, and divers other wholesome and medicinable herbs and trees.
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