The stranded party suffered while the cacique was gone. The Indians of this part of the Florida coast did not cultivate crops, but lived on fish, shellfish and palmetto, cocoplum and seagrape berries in season. The berries were gone by this time, and the Jeces seldom gave the stranded party fish. They were reduced to eating the gills and guts of fish taken from a "dung-hill", as Dickinson puts it. The party from the "Reformation" continued to worry about their fate. The Indians of Jece would alternately threaten the "Reformation" party and then tell them how they planned to kill the "Nantwitch" survivors.