An houre glasse of Indian newes. Or A true and tragicall discourse, shewing the most lamentable miseries, and distressed calamities indured by 67 Englishmen, which were sent for a supply to the planting in Guiana in the yeare. 1605. : VVho not finding the saide place, were for want of victuall, left a shore in Saint Lucia, an island of caniballs, or men-eaters in the West-Indyes, vnder the conduct of Captain Sen-Iohns, of all which said number, onely a 11. are supposed to be still liuing, whereof 4. are lately returnd into England.
An houre glasse of Indian newes is a 1607 London pamphlet by John Nicholl, an emigrant to Guiana, printed by Edward Allde for Nathaniell Butter, recounting a shipwreck and abandonment of English colonists on Saint Lucia. The pictures are small black-ink woodcut ornaments: a foliate border with a winged cherub, a symmetrical strapwork panel, and a decorated initial C, offering a designer period-correct border and initial models.
