LIVING HISTORY
AN EPIC TALE
OF SURVIVAL
BY RICK CRARY
Survivors of the Reformation were captured by Indians similar to these depicted in Jacksonville Public Library’s mural Ribault’s Landing by Lee Adams.
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RICK CRARY
Journal describes brutal capture, rescue
of British castaways from coastal Indians
Of all tKe sKiSs tKat foundered oͿ tKe 7reasure
Coast through the centuries, the one remembered
best is the Reformation. After it ran
aground on Jupiter Island 320 years ago, a
survivor wrote a book that became an early American
classic: God’s Protecting Providence. We know it better
today as Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal. An 11,500-acre
state park in Hobe Sound was named in honor of the
author, but it was an elderly evangelist’s story that
made the shipwreck famous. Robert Barrow’s quest to
survive Florida’s unforgiving wilderness captured a
bygone public’s attention.
For a couple of centuries after the discovery of Florida
tKe 7reasure &oast was little more tKan a sKadow\ >>