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A12471	The true travels, adventures, and observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in Europe, Asia, Affrica, and America, from anno Domini 1593. to 1629 His accidents and sea-fights in the straights; his service and stratagems of warre in Hungaria, Transilvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia, against the Turks, and Tartars ... After how he was taken prisoner by the Turks, sold for a slave ... and escaped ... Together with a continuation of his generall History of Virginia, Summer-Iles, New England, and their proceedings, since 1624. to this present 1629; as also of the new plantations of the great river of the Amazons, the iles of St. Christopher, Mevis, and Barbados in the West Indies. All written by actuall authours, whose names you shall finde along the history.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1630 (1630)	STC 22796; ESTC S111906	69,204	79

upon Moldavia Podolia Lituania and Russia are much more regular than the interior parts of Scythia This great Tartarian Prince that hath so troubled all his neighbours they alwayes call Chan which signifieth Emperour but we the Crym-Tartar He liveth for most part in the best champion plaines of many Provinces and his removing Court is like a great Citie of houses and tents drawne on Carts all so orderly placed East and West on the right and left hand of the Prince his house which is alwayes in the midst towards the South before which none may pitch their houses every one knowing their order and quarter as in an Armie The Princes houses are very artificially wrought both the foundation sides and roofe of wickers ascending round to the top like a Dove-coat this they cover with white felt or white earth tempered with the powder of bones that it may shine the whiter sometimes with blacke felt curiously painted with vines trees birds and beasts the breadth of the Carts are eighteene or twenty foot but the house stretcheth foure or five foot over each side and is drawne with ten or twelve or for more state twenty Camels and Oxen. They have also great baskets made of smaller wickers like great chests with a covering or the same all covered over with blacke felt rubbed over with tallow and sheeps milke to keepe out the raine prettily bedecked with painting or feathers in those they put their houshold stuffe and treasure drawne upon other carts for that purpose When they take downe their houses they set the doore alwayes towards the South and their carts thirtie or fortie foot distant on each side East and West as if they were two walls the women also have most curious carts every one of his wives hath a great one for herselfe and so many other for her attendants that they seeme as many Courts as he hath wives One great Tartar or Nobleman will have for his particular more than an hundred of those houses and carts for his severall offices and uses but set so farre from each other they will seeme like a great village Having taken their houses from the carts they place the Master alwayes towards the North over whose head is alwayes an Image like a Puppet made of felt which they call his brother the women on his left hand and over the chiefe Mistris her head such another brother and betweene them a little one which is the keeper of the house at the good wives beds-feet is a kids skinne stuffed with wooll and neere it a Puppet looking towards the Maids next the doore another with a dried cowes udder for the women that milke the kine because only the men milke mares every morning those Images in their orders they besprinkle with that they drinke bee it Cossmos or whatsoever but all the white mares milke is reserved for the Prince Then without the doore thrice to the South every one bowing his knee in honour of the fire then the like to the East in honour of the aire then to the West in honour of the water and lastly to the North in behalfe of the dead After the servant hath done this duty to the foure quarters of the world he returnes into the house where his fellowes stand waiting ready with two cups and two basons to give their master and his wife that lay with him 〈◊〉 night to wash and drinke who must keepe him company all the day following and all his other wives come thither to drinke where hee keepes his house that day and all the gifts presented him till night are laid vp in her chests and at the doore a bench full of cups and drinke for any of them to make merry Chap. XV. Their feasts common diet Princes estate buildings tributes lawes slaves entertainment of Ambassadours FOr their feasts they have all sorts of beasts birds fish fruits and hearbs they can get but the more variety of wilde ones is the best to which they have excellent drinke made of rice millit and honey like wine they have also wine but in Summer they drinke most Cossmos that standeth ready alwayes at the entrance of the doore and by it a fidler when the master of the house beginneth to drinke they all cry ha ha and the fidler playes then they all clap their hands and dance the men before their Masters the women before their Mistresses and ever when he drinks they cry as before then the fidler stayeth till they drinke all round sometimes they will drinke for the victory and to provoke one to drinke they will pull him by the ears and lugge and draw him to stretch and heat him clapping their hands stamping with their feet and dancing before the champions offering them cups then draw them backe againe to increase their appetite and thus continue till they be drunke or their drinke done which they hold an honour and no infirmity Though the ground be fertile they sow little corne yet the Gentlemen have bread and hony-wine grapes they have plenty and wine privately and good flesh fish but the common sort stamped millit mingled with milke and water They call Cassa for meat and drinke any thing also any beast unprofitable for service they kill when they are like to die or however they die they will eat them guts liver and all but the most fleshy parts they cut in thinne slices and hang it up in the Sunne and wind wihout salting where it will drie so hard it will not putrifie in a long time A Ramme they esteeme a great feast among forty or fiftie which they cut in peeces boiled or roast puts it in a great bowle with salt and water for other sauce they have none the master of the feast giveth every one a peece which he eateth by himselfe or carrieth away with him Thus their hard fare makes them so infinite in Cattell and their great number of captived women to breed vpon makes them so populous But neere the Christian frontiers the baser sort make little cottages of wood called Vlusi daubed over with durt and beasts dung covered with sedge yet in Summer they leave them beginning their progresse in Aprill with their wives children and slaves in their carted houses scarce convenient for foure or five persons driving their flocks towards Perecopya and sometimes into Taurica or Osow a towne upon the river Tanais which is great and swift where the Turke hath a garrison and in October returne againe to their Cottages Their Clothes are the skinnes of dogges goats and sheepe lined with cotten cloath made of their finest wooll for of their worst they make their felt which they use in aboundance as well for shooes and caps as houses beds and Idolls also of the coarse wooll mingled with horse haire they make all their cordage Notwithstanding this wandring life their Princes sit in great state upon beds or carpits and with great reverence are attended both by

went thither and finding my relations true and that I had not taken that I brought home from the French men as had beene reported yet further for my paines to discredit me and my calling it New England they obscured it and shadowed it with the title of Cannada till at my humble suit it pleased our most Royall King Charles whom God long keepe blesse and preserve then Prince of Wales to confirme it with my map and booke by the the title of New England the gaine thence returning did make the same thereof so increase that thirty forty or fifty saile went yearly only to trade and fish but nothing would bee done for a plantation till about some hundred of your Brownists of England Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plimouth whose humorous ignorances caused them for more than a yeare to endure a wonderfull deale of misery with an infinite patience saying my books and maps were much better cheape to teach them than my selfe many other have used the like good husbandry that have payed soundly in trying their selfewilled conclusions but those in time doing well divers others have in small handfulls undertaken to goe there to be severall Lords and Kings of themselves but most vanished to nothing notwithstanding the fishing ships made such good returnes at last it was ingrossed by twenty Pattenties that divided my map into twenty parts and cast lots for their shares but mony not comming in as they expected procured a Proclamation none should goe thither without their licences to fish but for every thirty tunnes of shipping to pay them five pounds besides upon great penalties neither to trade with the natives cut downe wood for their stages without giving satisfaction though all the Country is nothing but wood and none to make use of it with many such other pretences for to make this Country plant it selfe by its owne wealth hereupon most men grew so discontented that few or none would goe so that the Pattenties who never one of them had beene there seeing those projects would not prevaile have since not hindred any to goe that would that within these few last yeares more have gone thither than ever Now this yeare 1629. a great company of people of good ranke zeal meanes and quality have made a great stocke and with six good ships in the moneths of Aprill and May they set saile from Thames for the Bay of the Massachuselts otherwise called Charles River viz. the George Bonaventure of twenty peeces of Ordnance the Talbot nineteene the Lions-whelpe eight the May-flower fourteene the Foure Sisters foureteene the Pilgrim foure with three hundred and fifty men women and children also an hundred and fifteene head of Cattell as horse mares and neat beast one and forty goats some Conies with all provision for houshold and apparell six peeces of great Ordnance for a Fort with Muskets Pikes Corselets Drums Colours with all provisions necessary for a plantation for the good of man other particulars I understand of no more than is writ in the generall historie of those Countries But you are to understand that the noble Lord chiefe Iustice Popham Iudge Doderege the Right Honourable Earles of Pembroke Southampton Salesbury and the rest as I take it they did all thinke as I and them went with me did That had those two Countries beene planted as it was intended that no other nation should come plant betwixt us If ever the King of Spaine and we should fall foule those Countries being so capable of all materialls for shipping by this might have beene owners of a good Fleet of ships and to have releeved a whole Navy from England upon occasion yea and to have furnished England with the most Easterly commodities and now since seeing how conveniently the Summer Iles fell to our shares so neere the West Indies wee might with much more facility than the Dutchmen hav● invaded the West Indies that doth now put in practice what so long hath beene advised on by many an honest English States-man Those Countries Ca●taine Smith oft times used to call his children that never had mother well he might for few fathers ever payed dearer for so little consent and for those that would truly understand how many strange accidents hath befallen them and him how oft up how oft downe sometimes neere desperate and ere long flourishing cannot but conceive Gods infinite mercies and favours towards them Had his designes beene to have perswaded men to a mine of gold though few doth conceive either the charge or paines in refining it nor the power nor care to defend it or some new Invention to passe to the South Sea or some strange plot to invade some strange Monastery or some portable Countrie or some chargeable Fleet to take some rich Carocks in the East Indies or Letters of Mart to rob some poore Merchants what multitudes of both people and mony would contend to be first imployed but in those noble endevours now how few of quality unlesse it be to beg some Monopolie and those seldome seeke the common good but the commons goods as you may reade at large in his generall history page 217 218 219. his generall observations and reasons for this plantation for yet those Countries are not so forward but they may become as miserable as ever if better courses be not taken than is as this Smith will plainly demonstrate to his Majesty or any other noble person of ability liable generously to undertake it how within a short time to make Virginia able to resist any enemy that as yet lieth open to all and yeeld the King more custome within these few yeares in certaine staple commodities than ever it did in Tobacco which now not being worth bringing home the custome will bee as uncertaine to the King as dangerous to the plantations CHAP. XXIIII A briefe discourse of divers voyages made unto the goodly Countrey of Guiana and the great River of the Amazons relating also the present Plantation there IT is not unknowen how that most industrious honourable Knight Sir Walter Rauleigh in the yeare of our Lord 1595. taking the I le of Trinidado fell with the Coast of Guiana Northward of the Line ten degrees and coasted the Coast and searched up the River Oranoca where understanding that twentie severall voyages had beene made by the Spanyards in discovering this Coast and River to finde a passage to the great Citie of Mano called by them the Eldorado or the Golden Citie he did his utmost to have found some better satisfaction than relations But meanes failing him hee left his trustie servant Francis Sparrow to seeke it who wandring up and downe those Countreyes some foureteene or fifteene yeares unexpectedly returned I have heard him say he was led blinded into this Citie by Indians but little discourse of any purpose touching the largenesse of the report of it his body seeming as a man of an uncurable consumption short●● dyed here after in

haec nobis testimonia habuit ut majori licentia frueretur qua dignus esset jam tendet in patriam suam dulcissimam Rogamus ergo omnes nostros charissimos confinitimos Duces Principes Comites Barones Gubernatores Vrbium Navium in eadem Regione caeterarum Provinciarum in quibus ille residere conatiu fuerit ut idem permittatur Capitancus libere sine obstaculo omni versari Haec ●cientes pergra●um nobis feceritis Signatum Lesprizia in Misnia die Mensis Decembris 9. Anno Domini 1603. Cum Privilegio propriae Majestatis SIGISMVNDVS BATHORI UNIVERSIS singulis cujuscunque loci status gradus ordinis ac conditionis ad quos hoc praesens scriptum pervenerit Guilielmus Segar Eques auratus aliàs dictus Garterus Principalis Rex Armorum Anglicorum Salutem Sciatis quod Ego praedictus Garterus notum testatumque facio quod Patentem suprascripium cum manu propriapraedicti Ducis Transilvaniae subsignatum Sigillo suo affixum Vidi Copiam veram ejusdem in perpetuam rei memoriam transcripsi recordavi in Archivis Registris Officii Armorum Datum Londini 19. die Augusti Anno Domini 1625. Annoque Regni Domini nostri CAROLI Dei gratia Magnae Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensoris c. Primo GVILIELMVS SEGAR Garterus SIGISMVNDVS BATHOR by the Grace of God Duke of Transilvania Wallachia and Moldavia Earle of Anchard Salford and Growenda to whom this Writing may come or appeare Know that We have given leave and licence to Iohn Smith an English Gentleman Captaine of 250. Souldiers under the most Generous and Honourable Henry Volda Earle of Meldritch Salmaria and Peldoia Colonell of a thousand horse and fifteene hundred foot in the warres of Hungary and in the Provinces aforesaid under our authority whose service doth deserve all praise and perpetuall memory towards us as a man that did for God and his Country overcome his enemies Wherefore out of Our love and favour according to the law of Armes We have ordained and given him in his shield of Armes the figure and description of three Turks heads which with his sword before the towne of Regall in single combat he did overcome kill and cut off in the Province of Transilvania But fortune as she is very variable so it chanced and happened to him in the Province of Wallachia in the yeare our Lord 1602. the 18. day of November with many others as well Noble men as also divers other Souldiers were taken prisoners by the Lord Bashaw of Cambia a Country of Tartaria whose cruelty brought him such good fortune by the helpe and power of Almighty God that hee delivered himselfe and returned againe to his company and fellow souldiers of whom We doe discharge him and this hee hath in witnesse thereof being much more worthy of a better reward and now intends to returne to his owne sweet Country We desire therefore all our loving and kinde kinsmen Dukes Princes Earles Barons Governours of Townes Cities or Ships in this Kingdome or any other Provinces he shall come in that you freely let passe this the aforesaid Captaine without any hinderance or molestation and this doing with all kindnesse we are alwayes ready to doe the like for you Sealed at Lipswick in Misenland the ninth of December in the yeare of our Lord 1603. With the proper privilege of his Majestie SIGISMVNDVS BATHOR TO all and singular in what place state degree order or condition whatsoever to whom this present writing shall come William Segar Knight otherwise Garter and principall King of Armes of England wish health Know that I the aforesaid Garter do witnesse and approve that this aforesaid Patent I have seene signed sealed under the proper hand and Seale Manual of the said Duke of Transilvania and a true coppy of the same as a thing for perpetuall memory I have subscribed and recorded in the Register and office of the Heralds of Armes Dated at London the nineteenth day of August in the yeare of our Lord 1625. and in the first yeare of our Soueraigne Lord Charles by the grace of God King of great Britaine France and Ireland Defender of the faith c. WILLIAM SEGAR CHAP. IX Sigismundus sends Ambassadours vnto the Emperour the conditions re-assured He yeeldeth up all to Busca and returneth to Prague BVsca having all this time beene raising new forces was commanded from the Emperour againe to invade Transilvania which being one of the fruitfullest and strongest Countries in those parts was now rather a desart or the very spectacle of desolation their fruits and fields overgrowne with weeds their Churches and battered Palaces and best buildings as for feare hid with Mosse and Ivy being the very Bulwarke and Rampire of a great part of Europe most fit by all Christians to have beene supplyed and maintained was thus brought to ruine by them it most concerned to support it But alas what is it when the power of Majestie pampered in all delights of pleasant vanity neither knowing nor considering the labour of the Ploughman the hazard of the Merchant the oppression of Statesmen nor feeling the piercing tormēts of broken limbes inveterated wounds the toilsome marches the bad lodging the hungry diet and the extreme misery that Souldiers endure to secure all those estates and yet by the spight of malicious detraction starves for want of their reward and recompences whilest the politique Courtier that cōmonly aimes more at his owne honors ends than his Countries good or his Princes glory honour or security as this worthy Prince too well could testifie But the Emperor being certified how weak and desperate his estate was sent Busca againe with a great Army to trie his fortune once more in Transilvania The Prince considering how his Country subjects were consumed the small means he had any longer to defend his estate both against the cruelty of the Turke the power of the Emperor the small care the Polanders had in supplying him as they had promised sent to Busca to haue truce till messengers might be sent to the Emperour for some better agreement wherewith Busca was contented The Ambassadours so prevailed that the Emperour re-assured vnto them the conditions he had promised the Prince at their confederacie for the lands in Silesia with 60000. ducats presently in hand and 50000. ducats yearely as a pension When this conclusion was knowne to Moyses his Liestenant then in the field with the Army that would doe any thing rather than come in subjection to the Germans he encouraged his Souldiers and without any more adoe marched to encounter Busca whom he found much better provided than he expected so that betwixt them in six or seven houres more than five or six thousand on both sides lay dead in the field Moyses thus overthrowne 〈◊〉 to the Turks at Temesware and his scattered troopes some one way some another The Prince vnderstanding of this so sudden and unexpected