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A04691	A plaine description of the Barmudas, now called Sommer Ilands VVith the manner of their discouerie anno 1609. by the shipwrack and admirable deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates, and Sir George Sommers, wherein are truly set forth the commodities and profits of that rich, pleasant, and healthfull countrie. With an addition, or more ample relation of diuers other remarkeable matters concerning those ilands since then experienced, lately sent from thence by one of the colonie now there resident.; Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Ile of Divels	Jourdain, Silvester, d. 1650.	1613 (1613)	STC 14817; ESTC S109247	18,076	52

did thinke it to be Lignum vitae but it is not so it is verie fine wood of colour yellow and it beares a leafe like vnto a Walnut and the rine or barke is much like a Malnut tree and the barke if one taste of it will bite ones tongue as if it were Ginney Pepper that wood also is very sweet the other is much like vnto the second but onely it is white the Palme-tree is no timber but it growes vp of a great height and no tree growes like vnto it for other trees as they grow vp in length so they grow in bignesse but the Palme-tree the higher it growes so the smaller it growes there is another kinde of wood which some also thinke is Lignum vitae and some of it is come ouer for example Other kind of trees there be but no timber trees they are but amongst all the rest there growes a kinde of tree called Mangrowes they grow very strangely would make a man wonder to see the mannes of their growing whereof you shall heare at more leasure Also amongst al the fores of Fish there is one very strange Fish and bew●ifull to behold wee call it an Angell-fish as well it may be for as you see the picture of an Angell made so is this and it shewes of many colours both in the water swimming and out of the water and as daintie a fish of meat as a Salmon or rather better The plentifull time of our fruits is in your Winter from October till it be May or about the latter end of May is the plentifullest time of our fruits but some we haue al the yeare of one fruit or other The Climate I hold to be verie good and agreeable with our constitutions of England and for the virtuall very wholesome and good for the three men which were left there are very fat and faire not tanned or burned in the Sun so much as we which came last they say thēselues they neuer were sicke all the time of their being there and one of them hath beene there three yeares and vpwards one Christopher Carter by name a Buckingham-shire man borne in wickham or thereabouts And for such extraordinarie weather for thunder and lightning as it is reported of these Ilands I can see no such matter but more temperate and better weather then you haue in England wee haue gone a hunting and lien out night by night for Hogges and if wee had beene wette by weather or by wading wee may lay vs downe so wette to sleepe with a Palme-tree leafe or two vnder vs and one aboue vs and we sleepe soundly without any taking cold or being disturbed with any thing else your aires in England are far more subiect to diseases then these Ilands are Whales there are great store at that time of the yeare when they come in which time of their comming is in Februarie and tarrie till Iune Likewise there commeth in two other Fishes with them but such as the whale had rather bee without their company one is called a Sword-fish the other a Threasher the Sword-fish swimmes vnder the whale and pricketh him vpward the Threasher keepeth aboue him and with a mightie great thing like vnto a flaile hee so bangeth the Whale that hee will roare as though it thundered and doth giue him such blowes with his weapon that you would thinke it to bee a cracke of great shot Hastie occasion of businesse doth make mee write somewhat hastilie and leaue out many things which were fitte to bee spoken of wherefore against my will I am forced to leaue my worke which I haue begunue before I come into the middest of it but I hope it will suffice you that are my friends to passe it ouer in the best manner you can for there is much broken English of it badly penned regard I pray you the matter not the manner the truth of the storie and not the stile But this I say to them that haue aduentured in Virginia especially to such as thinke they shall lose by that worthy action let them do the like to vs and I make no doubt but wee shall in short time giue them satisfaction For our Inchanted Ilands which is kept as some say with spirits will wrong no friend nor foe but yeeld all men their expectations If we can praise God for so great a blessing and labour to make benefit of it to his glory the honour of our Religion the strength of our Country and good of our selues And if you in England will doe what is fit for you as we will by Gods helpe what is fit for vs we hope shortly to see the day that men shal say Blessed bee God that suffered Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Sommers to be cast away vpon these Ilands A Copie of the Articles which Master R. MORE Gouernour Deputie of the Sommer Ilands propounded to the Companie that were there with him to bee subscribed vnto which both hee and they subscribed the second of August in his house Anno 1612. which about the same time he sent into England to the worshipfull Companie of the Adventurers WE who haue here vnder subscribed our names being by the great goodnesse of God safely arriued at the Sommer Ilands with purpose here to inhabit doe hereby promise and binde our selues to the performance of the seuerall Articles hereafter following and that in the presence of the most glorious God who hath in mercie brought vs hither First We doe faithfully promise and by these presents solemnely binde our selues euer-more to worship that aforesaid only true and euer-liuing God who hath made the Heauens and the Earth the Sea and all that therein is and that according to those rules that are prescribed in his most holy Word and euer to continue in that faith into the which we were baptised in the Church of England and to stand in defence of the same against all Atheists Papists Anabaptists Brownists and all other Heretiques and Sectaries whatsoeuer dissenting from the said Word and Faith Secondly because the keeping of the Sabboth-day holy is that wherein a principall part of Gods worship doth consist and is as it were the Key of all the other parts thereof wee doe therefore in the presence aforesaid promise That we will set a-part all our owne labours and imploiments on that day vnlesse it be those that be of meere necessitie much more vaine and vnfruitfull practises and apply our selues to the hearing of Gods word Prayer and all other exercises of Religion in his word required to the vttermost of our power Thirdly Seeing the true worship of God and a holy Life cannot bee seuered wee doe therefore promise in the presence aforesaid That to the vttermost of our power we will liue together in doing that which is iust both towards God and Man and in particular we will forbeare to take the most holy name of God in vaine in ordinarie swearing by it or any other thing or by scoffing or vaine abusing of his most holy Word or to vse cursing or filthy speeches or any other thing forbidden in Gods most holy Word as also to liue together without stealing one from another or quarrelling one with another or slandering one of another And to auoide all things that stand not with the good estate of a Christian Church and well gouerned Commonwealth as also to embrace the contrarie as Iustice and Peace Loue and all other things that stand with the good and comfort of Societie Fourthly Whereas we are here together farre remote from our natiue soile of England and yet are indeede the naturall Subiects of our most royall and gratious King IAMES of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. We doe therefore in the presence aforesaid solemnely promise euer more to continue the loyall Subiects of our said Soueraigne King his Heires and Successors and neuer to reuolt from him or them vnto any other whatsoeuer but euermore to acknowledge his Supreme Gouernement Fiftly Whereas wee were sent hither by diuers Aduenturers of the Citie of London and other parts of the Realme of England we doe here in the presence aforesaid promise to vse all diligence for the good of the Plantation and not to purloine or imbesell any of the prohibited Cōmodities out of the generall estate but to vse all faithfulnesse as it becommeth Christians to doe as also to bee obedient to all such Gouernour or Gouernours or their Deputie or Deputies as are or shall bee by them sent to gouerne vs As also to yeeld all reuerence towards the Ministerie or Ministers of the Gospell sent or to be sent Sixtly and lastly Wee doe here in presence aforesaid promise the Lord assisting vs that if at any time hereafter any forraine power shall attempt to put vs out of this our lawfull possession not cowardly to yeeld vp the same but manfully to fight as true English men for the defence of the Common-wealth we liue in and Gospell wee professe and that whiles we haue breath we will not yeeld to any that shall inuade vs vpon any conditions whatsoeuer FINIS