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A02655	A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants. Discouered by the English colon there seated by Sir Richard Greinuile Knight in the eere 1585. Which remained vnder the gouernement of twelue monethes, at the speciall charge and direction of the Honourable Sir Walter Raleigh Knight lord Warden of the stanneries who therein hath beene fauoured and authorised b her Maiestie :and her letters patents: This fore booke is made in English by Thomas Hariot seruant to the abouenamed Sir Walter, a member of the Colon, and there imploed in discouering Cum gratia et priuilegio Caes. Matis Speciali	Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621.; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598. America.; White, John, fl. 1585-1593, artist.; Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.; Veen, Gijsbert van, 1558-1630, engraver.	1590 (1590)	STC 12786; ESTC S106427	39,246	83

of beasts which I haue heard of to be here and there dispersed in the countrie especially in the maine of which there are only twelue kinds that we haue yet discouered of those that be good meat we know only them before mentioned The inhabitānts somtime kil the Lyon eat him we somtime as they came to our hands of their Wolues or woluish Dogges which I haue not set downe for good meat least that some woulde vnderstand my iudgement therin to be more simple than needeth although I could alleage the difference in taste of kindes from ours which by some of our company haue beene experimented in both Of Foule Turkie cockes and Turkie hennes Stockdoues Partridges Cranes Hernes in winter great store of Swannes Geese Ofal sortes of foule I haue the names in the countrie language of four escore and sixe of which number besides those that be named we haue taken eaten haue the pictures as they were there drawne with the names of the inhabitaunts of seuerall strange sortes of water foule eight and seuenteene kinds more of land foul although wee haue seen and eaten of many more which for want of leasure there for the purpose coulde not bee pictured and after wee are better furnished and stored vpon further discouety with their strange beastes fishe trees plants and hearbes they shall bee also published There are also Parats Faulcons Marlin haukes which although with vs they bee not vsed for meate yet for other causes I thought good to mention Of Fishe For foure monethes of the yeere February March Aprill and May there are plentie of Sturgeons And also in the same monethes of Herrings some of the ordinary bignesse as ours in England but the most part farre greater of eighteene twentie inches and some two foote in length and better both these kindes of fishe in those monethes are most plentifull and in best season which wee founde to bee most delicate and pleasaunt meate There are also Troutes Porpoises Rayes Oldwiues Mullets Plaice and very many other sortes of excellent good fish which we haue taken eaten whose names I know not but in the countrey language wee haue of twelue sorts more the pictures as they were drawn in the countrey with their names The inhabitants vse to take then two maner of wayes the one is by a kind of wear made of reedes which in that countrey are very strong The other way which is more strange is with poles made sharpe at one ende by shooting them into the fish after the maner as Irishmen cast dartes either as they are rowing in their boates or els as they are wading in the shallowes for the purpose There are also in many places plentie of these kindes which follow Sea crabbes such as we haue in England Oystres some very great and some small some rounde and some of a long shape They are founde both in salt water and brackish and those that we had out of salt water are far better than the other as in our owne countrey Also Muscles Scalopes Periwinkles and Creuises Seekanauk a kinde of crustie shell fishe which is good meate about a foote in breadth hauing a crustie tayle many legges like a crab and her eyes in her backe They are founde in shallowes of salt waters and sometime on the shoare There are many Tortoyses both of lande and sea kinde their backes bellies are shelled very thicke their head feete and taile which are in appearance seeme ougly as though they were membres of a serpent or venemous but notwithstanding they are very good meate as also their egges Some haue bene founde of a yard in bredth and better And thus haue I made relation of all sortes of victuall that we fed vpon for the time we were in Virginia as also the inhabitants themselues as farre foorth as I knowe and can remember or that are specially worthy to bee remembred THE THIRD AND LAST PART OF SVCH OTHER THINGES AS IS BE HOOfull for those which shall plant and inhabit to know of with a description of the nature and manners of the people of the countrey Of commodities for building and other necessary vses Those other things which I am more to make rehearsall of are such as concerne building and other mechanicall necessarie vses as diuers sortes of trees for house ship timber and other vses els Also lime stone and brick least that being not mentioned some might haue bene doubted of or by some that are malicious reported the contrary Okes there are as faire straight tall and as good timber as any can be and also great store and in some places very great Walnut trees as I haue saide before very many some haue bene seen excellent faire timber of foure fiue fadome aboue fourescore foot streight without bough Firre trees fit for masts of ships some very tall great Rakíock a kind of trees so called that are sweet wood of which the inhabitans that were neere vnto vs doe commonly make their boats or Canoes of the form of trowes only with the helpe of fire harchets of stones and shels we haue known some so great being made in that sort of one tree that they haue carried well xx men at once besides much baggage the timber being great tal streight soft light yet tough enough I thinke besides other vses to be fit also for masts of ships Cedar a sweet wood good for seelings Chests Boxes Bedsteedes Lutes Virginals and many things els as I haue also said before Some of our company which haue wandered in some places where I haue not bene haue made certaine affirmation of Cyprus which for such and other excellent vses is also a wood of price and no small estimation Maple and also Wich-hazle wherof the inhabitants vse to make their bowes Holly a necessary thing for the making of birdlime Willowes good for the making of weares and weeles to take fish after the English manner although the inhabitants vse only reedes which because they are so strong as also flexible do serue for that turne very well and sufficiently Beech and Ashe good for caske hoopes and if neede require plow worke as also for many things els Elme Sassafras trees Ascopo a kinde of tree very like vnto Lawrell the barke is hoat in tast and spicie it is very like to that tree which Monardus describeth to bee Cassia Lignea of the West Indies There are many other strange trees whose names I knowe not but in the Virginian language of which I am not nowe able neither is it so conuenient for the present to trouble you with particular relatiō seeing that for timber and other neceslary vses I haue named sufficient And of many of the rest but that they may be applied to good vse I know no cause to doubt Now for Stone Bricke and Lime thus it is Neere vnto the Sea coast where weedwelt there are no kinde of stones to bee found except a fewe small pebbles about

A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants Discouered by the English Colony there seated by Sir Richard Greinuile Knight In the yeere 1585. Which Remained Vnder the gouernement of twelue monethes At the speciall charge and direction of the Honourable SIR WALTER RALEIGH Knight lord Warden of the stanneries Who therein hath beene fauoured and authorised by her MAIESTIE and her letters patents This fore booke Is made in English BY Thomas Hariot seruant to the abouenamed Sir WALTER a member of the Colony and there imployed in discouering CVM GRATIA ET PRIVELEDIO CAESMA T IS SPECIA LI FRANCOFORTI AD MOENVM TYPIS IOANNIS WECHELL SVMITIRVS VERO THEODORI DE BRY ANNO CD D XC VENALES REPERIVNTVR IN OFFICINA SIGISMVNDI FEIRABENDII TO THE RIGHT WORTHIE AND HONOVRABLE SIR VVALTER RALEGH KNIGHT SENESCHAL OF THE DVCHIES OF Cornewall and Exeter and L. Warden of the stannaries in Deuon and Cornewall T.B. wisheth true felictie AMORE ET VIRTVE SIr seeing that the parte of the Worlde which is betwene the Florida and the Cap Breton nowe nammed Virginia to the honneur of yours most souueraine Layde and Queene Elizabetz hath ben descouuerd by yours meanes And great chardges And that your Collonye hath been theer established to your great honnor and prayse and noelesser proffit vnto the commonwelth Yt ys good raison that euery man euertwe him selfe for to showe the benefit which they haue receue of yt Theerfore formy parte I haue been all wayes Desirous for to make yow knowe the good will that I haue to remayne still your most humble seruant I haue thincke that I cold faynde noe better occasion to declare yt then takinge the paines to cott in copper the most diligent ye and well that wear my possible to doe the Figures which doe leuelye represent the forme aud maner of the Inhabitants of thesame countrye with theirs ceremonies sollemne feastes and the manner and situation of their Townes or Villages Addinge vnto euery figure a brief declaration of thesame to that ende that euerye man cold the better vnderstand that which is in represented Moreouer I haue thincke that the aforesaid figures wear of greater commendation If somme Histoire which traitinge of the commodites and of the said trye weare Ioyned with the same therfore haue I serve miselfe of the which Thomas Hariot hath lattely sett foorth and haue booth togither to be printed for to dedicated vnto you as a thinge which by doth allreadye apparteyne vnto you Therfore doe I creaue that you will keepe this little Booke and take yt In goode partte And desiringe that fauor that reccueme in the nomber of one of your most humble seruantz lord to blese and further you in all yours good doinges and actions and also to preserue and keepe you allwayes in good helthe And soe I comitt you vnto the almyhttie from Franckfort the first of Apprill 1590. Your most humble seruant Theodorvs de Bry. TO THE ADVENTVRERS FAVORERS AND VVELVVILLERS OF THE ENTERPRISE FOR THE INHABITTING and planting in Virginia Since the first vndertaking by Sir Walter Ralegh to deale in the action of discouering of that Countrey which is now called and known by the name of Virginia many voyages hauing bin thiter made at sundrie times to his great charge as first in the yeere 1584. and afterwardes in the yeeres 1585. 1586. and now of late this last yeare of 1587. There haue bin diuers and variable reportes with some slaunderous and shamefull speeches bruited abroade by many that returned from thence Especially of that discouery which was made by the Colony transported by Sir Richard Greinuile in the yeare 1585. being of all the others the most principal and as yet of most effect the time of their abode in the countrey beeing a whole yeare when as in the other voyage before they staied but sixe weekes and the others after were onelie for supply and transportation nothing more being discouered then had been before Which reports haue not done a litle wrong to many that otherwise would haue also fauoured aduentured in the action to the honour and benefite of our nation besides the particular profite and credite which would redound to them selues the dealers therein as I hope by the sequele of euents to the shame of those that haue auouched the contrary shal be manifest if you the aduenturers fauourers and welwillers do but either encrease in number or in opinion continue or hauing bin doubtfull renewe your good liking and furtherance to deale therein according to the worthinesse thereof alreadye found and as you shall vnderstand hereafter to be requisite Touching which woorthines through cause of the diuersitie of relations and reportes manye of your opinions coulde not bee firme nor the mindes of some that are well disposed bee setled in any certaintie I haue therefore thought it good beeing one that haue beene in the discouerie and in dealing with the naturall inhabitantes specially imploied and hauing therefore seene and knowne more then the ordinarie to imparte so much vnto you of the fruites of our labours as that you may knowe howe iniuriously the enterprise is slaundered And that in publike manner at this present chiefelie for two respectes First that some of you which are yet ignorant or doubtfull of the state thereof may see that there is sufficiēt cause why the cheefe enterpriser with the fauour of her Maiestie notwithstanding suche reportes hath not onelie since continued the action by sending into the countrey againe and replanting this last yeere a new Colony but is also readie according as the times and meanes will affoorde to follow and prosecute the same Secondly that you seeing and knowing the continuance of the action by the view hereof you may generally know learne what the countrey is ther vpon cōsider how your dealing therein if it proceede may returne you profit and gaine bee it either by inhabitting planting or otherwise in furthering thereof And least that the substance of my relation should be doubtful vnto you as of others by reason of their diuersitie I will first open the cause in a few wordes wherefore they are so different referring my selue to your fauourable constructions and to be adiudged of as by good consideration you shall finde cause Of our companie that returned some for their misdemenour and ill dealing in the countrey haue beene there worthily punished who by reason of their badde natures haue maliciously not onelie spoken ill of their Gouernours but for their sakes slaundered the countrie it selfe The like also haue those done which were of their consort Some beeing ignorant of the state thereof notwithstanding since their returne amōgest their friendes and acquaintance and also others especially if they were in compaine where they might not be gainesaide woulde seeme to knowe so much as no men more and make no men so great trauailers as themselues They stood so much as

it maie seeme vppon their credite and reputation that hauing been a twelue moneth in the countrey it woulde haue beene a great disgrace vnto them as they thought if they coulde not haue saide much wheter it were true or false Of which some haue spoken of more then euer they saw or otherwise knew to bee there othersome haue not bin ashamed to make absolute deniall of that which although not by thē yet by others is most certainely ād there plētifully knowne And othersome make difficulties of those things they haue no skill of The cause of their ignorance was in that they were of that many that were neuer out of the Iland where wee were seated or not farre or at the leastwise in few places els during the time of our aboade in the countrey or of that many that after golde and siluer was not so soone found as it was by them looked for had little or no care of any other thing but to pamper their bellies or of that many which had little vnderstanding lesse discretion and more tongue then was needfull or requisite Some also were of a nice bringing vp only in cities or townes or such as neuer as I may say had seene the world before Because there were not to bee found any English cities nor such faire houses nor at their owne wish any of their olde accustomed daintie food nor any soft beds of downe or fethers the countrey was to them miserable their reports thereof according Because my purpose was but in briefe to open the cause of the varietie of such speeches the particularities of them and of many enuious malicious and slaūderous reports and deuises els by our owne countrey men besides as trifles that are not worthy of wise men to bee thought vpon I meane not to trouble you withall but will passe to the commodities the substance of that which I haue to make relation of vnto you The treatise where of for your more readie view easier vnderstanding I will diuide into three speciall parts In the first I will make declaration of such commodities there alreadie found or to be raised which will not onely serue the ordinary turnes of you which are and shall bee the plāters and inhabitants but such an ouerplus sufficiently to bee yelded or by men of skill to bee prouided as by way of trafficke and exchaunge with our owne nation of England will enrich your selues the prouiders those that shal deal with you the enterprisers in general and greatly profit our owne countrey men to supply them with most things which heretofore they haue bene faine to prouide either of strangers or of our enemies which commodities for distinction sake I call Merchantable In the second I will set downe all the cōmodities which wee know the countrey by our experience doeth yeld of it selfe for victuall and sustenance of mans life such as is vsually fed vpon by the inhabitants of the countrey as also by vs during the time we were there In the last part I will make mention generally of such other cōmodities besides as I am able to remember and as I shall thinke behoofull for those that shall inhabite and plant there to knowe of which specially concerne building as also some other necessary vses with a briefe description of the nature and maners of the people of the countrey THE FIRST PART OF MARCHANTABLE COMMODITIES Silke of grasse or grasse Silke There is a kind of grasse in the countrey vppon the blades where of there groweth very good silke in forme of a thin glittering skin to bee stript of It groweth two foote and a halfe high or better the blades are about two foot in length and half inch broad The like groweth in Persia which is in the selfe same climate as Virginia of which very many of the silke workes that come from thence into Europe are made Here of if it be planted and ordered as in Persia it cannot in reason be otherwise but that there will rise in shorte time great profite to the dealers therein seeing there is so great vse and vent thereof as well in our countrey as els where And by the meanes of sowing plāting in good ground it will be farre greater better and more plentifull then it is Although notwithstanding there is great store thereof in many places of the countrey growing naturally and wilde Which also by proof here in England in making a piece of silke Grogran we found to be excellent good Worme Silke In manie of our iourneyes we found silke wormes fayre and great as bigge as our ordinary walnuttes Although it hath not beene our happe to haue found such plentie as elsew here to be in the coūtrey wehaue heard of yet seeing that the countrey doth naturally breede and nourish them there is no doubt but if art be added in plantig of mulbery trees and others fitte for them in commodious places for their feeding and nourishing and some of them carefully gathered and husbanded in that sort as by men of skill is knowne to be necessarie there will rise as great profite in time to the Virginians as there of doth now to the Persians Turkes Italians and Spaniards Flaxe and Hempe The trueth is that of Hempe and Flaxe there is no great store in any one place together by reason it is not planted but as the soile doth yeeld it of it selfe and howsoeuer the leafe and stemme or stalke doe differ from ours the stuffe by the iudgemēt of men of skill is altogether as good as ours And if not as further proofe should finde otherwise we haue that experience of the soile as thas there cannobee shewed anie reason to the contrary but that it will grow there excellent well and by planting will be yeelded plentifully seeing there is so much ground whereof some may well be applyed to such purposes What benefite heereof may growe in cordage and linnens who can not easily vnderstand Allum There is a veine of earth along the sea coast for the space of fourtie or fiftie miles whereof by the iudgement of some that haue made triall heerein England is made good Allum of that kinde which is called Roche Allum The richnesse of such a commoditie is so well knowne that I neede not to saye any thing thereof The same earth doth also yeelde White Copresse Nitrum and Alumen Plumeum but nothing so plentifully as the common Allum which be also of price and profitable Wapeih Wapeih a kinde of earth so called by the naturall inhabitants very like to terra sigillata and hauing beene refined it hath beene found by some of our Phisitiōs and Chirurgeons to bee of the same kinde of vertue and more effectuall The inhabitāts vse it very much for the cure of sores and woundes there is in diuers places great plentie and in some places of a blewe sort Pitch Tarre Rozen and Turpentine There are those kindes of trees which yeelde them abundantly and great store In the very same Iland

rāke differing from other halfe a fadome or a yarde and the holes also in euery ranke as much By this meanes there is a yarde spare ground betwene euery hole where according to discretion here and there they set as many Beanes and Peaze in diuers places also among the seedes of Macócqwer Melden and Planta Solis The ground being thus set according to the rate by vs experimented an English Acre conteining fourtie pearches in length and foure in breadth doeth there yeeld in croppe or ofcome of corne beanes and peaze at the least two hūdred London bushelles besides the Macócqwer Melden and Planta Solis When as in England fourtie bushelles of our wheate yeelded out of such an acre is thought to be much I thought also good to note this vnto you if you which shall inhabite and plant there maie know how specially that countrey corne is there to be preferred before ours Besides the manifold waies in applying it to victuall the increase is so much that small labour and paines is needful in respect that must be vsed for ours For this I can assure you that according to the rate we haue made proofe of one man may prepare and husbane so much grounde hauing once borne corne before with lesse thē foure and twentie houres labour as shall yeelde him victuall in a large proportiō for a twelue mōeth if hee haue nothing else but that which the same groūd will yeelde and of that kinde onelie which I haue before spoken of the saide groūd being also but of fiue and twentie yards square And if neede require but that there is ground enough there might be raised out of one and the selfsame ground two haruestes or ofcomes for they sowe or set and may at anie time when they thinke good from the middest of March vntill the ende of Iune so that they also set when they haue eaten of their first croppe In some places of the countrey notwithstanding they haue two haruests as we haue heard out of one and the same ground For English corne neuertheles whether to vse or not to vse it you that inhabite maie do as you shall haue farther cause to thinke best Of the grouth you need not to doubt for barlie oates and peaze we haue seene proof of not beeing purposely sowen but fallen casually in the worst sort of ground and yet to be as faire as any we haue euer seene here in England But of wheat because it was musty and hat taken salt water wee could make no triall and of rye we had none Thus much haue I digressed and I hope not vnnecessarily nowe will I returne againe to my course and intreate of that which yet remaineth appertaining to this Chapter There is an herbe which is sowed a part by it selfe is called by the inhabitants Vppówoc In the West Indies it hath diuers names according to the seuerall places countries where it groweth and is vsed The Spaniardes generally call it Tobacco The leaues thereof being dried and brought into powder they vse to take the fume or smoke thereof by sucking it through pipes made of claie into their stomacke and heade from whence it purgeth superfluous fleame other grosse humors openeth all the pores passages of the body by which meanes the vse thereof not only preserueth the body from obstructiōs but also if any be so that they haue not beene of too long continuance in short time breaketh them wherby their bodies are notably preserued in health know not many greeuous diseases wherewithall wee in England are oftentimes afflicted This Vppówoc is of so precious estimation amongest then that they thinke their gods are maruelously delighted therwith Wherupon sometime they make hallowed fires cast some of the pouder therein for a sacrifice being in a storme vppon the waters to pacifie their gods they cast some vp into the aire and into the water so a weare for fish being newly set vp they cast some therein and into the aire also after an escape of danger they cast some into the aire likewise but all done with strange gestures stamping somtime dauncing clapping of hands holding vp of hands staring vp into rhe heauens vttering therewithal and chattering strange words noises We our selues during the time we were there vsed to suck it after their maner as also since our returne haue found maine rare and wonderful experiments of the vertues thereof of which the relation woulde require a volume by it selfe the vse of it by so manie of late men women of great calling as else and some learned Phisitions also is sufficient witnes And these are all the commodities for sustenance of life that I know and can remember they vse to husband all else that followe are founde growing naturally or wilde Of Rootes Openavk are a kind of roots of round forme some of the bignes of walnuts some far greater which are found in moist marish grounds growing many together one by another in ropes or as thogh they were fastnened with a string Being boiled or sodden they are very good meate Okeepenavk are also of round shape found in dry grounds some are of the bignes of a mans head They are to be eaten as they are taken out of the ground for by reason of their drinesse they will neither roste nor seeth Their tast is not so good as of the former rootes notwithstanding for want of bread somtimes for varietie the inhabitants vse to eate them with fish or flesh and in my iudgement they doe as well as the houshold bread made of rie heere in England Kaishúcpenauk a white kind of roots about the bignes of hen egs nere of that forme their tast was not so good to our seeming as of the other and therfore their place and manner of growing not so much cared for by vs the inhabitāts notwithstanding vsed to boile eate many Tsinaw a kind of roote much like vnto the which in England is called the China root brought from the East Indies And we know not anie thing to the cōtrary but that it maie be of the same kind These roots grow manie together in great clusters and doe bring foorth a brier stalke but the leafe in shape far vnlike which beeing supported by the trees it groweth neerest vnto wil reach or climbe to the top of the highest From these roots while they be new or fresh beeing chopt into small pieces stampt is strained with water a iuice that maketh bread also being boiled a very good spoonemeate in maner of a gelly and is much better in tast if it bee tempered with oyle This Tsinaw is not of that sort which by some was caused to be brought into England for the China roote for it was discouered since and is in vse as is afore saide but that which was brought hither is not yet knowne neither by vs nor by the inhabitants to serue for any vse or purpose although the rootes in shape are very

reuenged because wee sought by all meanes possible to win them by gentlenesse but that within a few dayes after our departure from euerie such towne the people began to die very fast and many in short space in some townes about twentie in some fourtie in some sixtie in one sixe score which in trueth was very manie in respect of their numbers This happened in no place that wee coulde learne but where wee had bene where they vsed some practise against vs and after such time The disease also so strange that they neither knew what it was nor how to cure it the like by report of the oldest men in the countrey neuer happened before time out of minde A thing specially obserued by vs as also by the naturall inhabitants themselues Insomuch that when some of the inhabitants which were our friends especially the Wiroans Wingina had obserued such effects in foure or fiue towns to follow their wicked practises they were perswaded that it was the worke of our God through our meanes and that wee by him might kil and slai whom wee would without weapons and not come neere them And thereupon when it had happened that they had vnderstanding that any of their enemies had abused vs in our iourneyes hearing that wee had wrought no reuenge with our weapons fearing vpon some cause the matter should so rest did come and intreate vs that we woulde bee a meanes to our God that they as others that had dealt ill with vs might in like sort die alleaging howe much it would be for our credite and profite as also theirs and hoping furthermore that we would do so much at their requests in respect of the friendship we professe them Whose entreaties although wee shewed that they were vngodlie affirming that our God would not subiect him selfe to anie such praiers and requestes of mē that in deede all thinges haue beene and were to be done according to his good pleasure as he had ordained ād that we to shew our selues his true seruāts ought rather to make petition for the contrarie that they with them might liue together with vs bee made partakers of his truth serue him in righteousnes but notwithstanding in such sort that wee referre that as all other thinges to bee done according to his diuine will pleasure ād as by his wisedome he had ordained to be best Yet because the effect fell out so sodainly and shortly after according to their desires they thought neuerthelesse it came to passe by our meanes and that we in vsing such speeches vnto them did but dissemble the matter and therefore came vnto vs to giue vs thankes in their manner that although wee satisfied them not in promise yet in deedes and effect we had fulfilled their desires This maruelous accident in all the countrie wrought so strange opinions of vs that some people could not tel whether to think vs gods or men and the rather because that all the space of their sicknesse there was no man of ours knowne to die or that was specially sicke they noted also that we had no women amongst vs neither that we did care for any of theirs Some therefore were of opinion that wee were not borne of women and therefore not mortall but that wee were men of an old generation many yeeres past then risen againe to immortalitie Some woulde likewise seeme to prophesie that there were more of our generation yet to come to kill theirs and take their places as some thought the purpose was by that which was already done Those that were immediatly to come after vs they imagined to be in the aire yet inuisible without bodies that they by our intreaty for the loue of vs did make the people to die in that sort as they did by shooting inuisible bullets into them To confirme this opinion their phisitions to excuse their ignorance in curing the disease would not be ashemed to say but earnestly make the simple people beleue that the strings of blood that they sucked out of the sicke bodies were the strings wherewithal the inuisible bullets were tied and cast Some also thought that we shot them our selues out of our pieces from the place where we dwelt and killed the people in any such towne that had offended vs as we listed how farre distant from vs soeuer it were And other some saide that it was the speciall woorke of God for our sakes as wee our selues haue cause in some sorte to thinke no lesse whatsoeuer some doe or maie imagine to the contrarie specially some Astrologers knowing of the Eclipse of the Sunne which wee saw the same yeere before in our voyage thytherward which vnto them appeared very terrible And also of a Comet which beganne to appeare but a few daies before the beginning of the said sicknesse But to exclude them from being the speciall an accident there are farther reasons then I thinke fit at this present to bee alleadged These their opinions I haue set downe the more at large that it may appeare vnto you that there is good hope they may be brought through discreet dealing and gouernement to the imbracing of the trueth and consequently to honour obey feare and loue vs. And although some of our companie to wardes the ende of the yeare shewed themselues too fierce in slaying some of the people in some towns vpō causes that on our part might easily enough haue been borne withall yet notwithstanding because it was on their part iustly deserued the alteration of their opinions generally for the most part concerning vs is the lesse to bee doubted And whatsoeuer els they may be by carefulnesse of our selues neede nothing at all to be feared The best neuerthelesse in this as in all actions besides is to be endeuoured and hoped of the worst that may happen notice to bee taken with consideration and as much as may be eschewed The Conclusion Now I haue as I hope made relation not of so fewe and smal things but that the countrey of men that are indifferent wel disposed maie be sufficiently liked If there were no more knowen then I haue mentioned which doubtlesse and in great reason is nothing to that which remaineth to bee discouered neither the soile nor commodities As we haue reason so to gather by the difference we found in our trauails for although all which I haue before spoken of haue bin discouered experimented not far from the sea coast where was our abode most of our trauailing yet somtimes as we made our iourneies farther into the maine and countrey we found the soyle to bee fatter the trees greater and to growe thinner the grounde more firme and deeper mould more and larger champions finer grasse and as good as euer we saw any in England in some places rockie and farre more high and hillie ground more plentie of their fruites more abondance of beastes the more inhabited with people and of greater pollicie larger dominions