No man shall land any man in any foreign ports without order from the general, by the sergeant-major[13] or other officer, upon pain of death.
*39.

You shall take especial care when God shall send us to land in the Indies, not to eat of any fruit unknown, which fruit you do not find eaten with worms or beasts under the tree.
*40.

You shall avoid sleeping on the ground, and eating of new fish until it be salted two or three hours, which will otherwise breed a most dangerous flux; so will the eating of over-fat hogs or fat turtles.
*41.

You shall take care that you swim not in any rivers but where you see the Indians swim, because most rivers are full of alligators.
*42.

You shall not take anything from any Indian by force, for if you do it we shall never from thenceforth be relieved by them, but you must use them with all courtesy.