And so accordingly they concluded to do: and by the favour that God gave them in the sight of the People, by alledging the Innocency of their Cause, and the Extremity of their present Condition, having not the least ability to help or relieve themselves, they consented to give them two Measures of Rice a day each man.

One of which is as much as any man can eat in a day, so that the other was to serve for advance towards Cloths.

[Their fare.] For besides Rice, they gave them to eat with it Salt, Pepper, Limes, Herbs, Pumpkins, Coker Nuts, Flesh a little.

These and such like things were their constant fare.
[What Employment they afterwards followed.] And thus they made a shift to live for some years, until some of them had an insight in knitting Caps, by whom all afterwards learned, and it proved to be the chief means and help we all had to relieve our wants.

The ordinary price we sold these Caps for, was Nine pence a piece in value English Money, the Thread standing us in about three pence.