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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

THE TRUE TRAVELS ADVENTVRES 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 his three single combats betwixt the Christian Armie and the Turkes After how he was taken prisoner by the Turks sold for a Slave sent into Tartaria his description of the Tartars their strange manners and customes of Religions Diets Buildings Warres Feasts Ceremonies and Living how hee slew the Bashaw of Nalbrits in Cambia and escaped from the Turkes and Tartars 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 LONDON Printed by J. H. for Thomas Slater and are to bee sold at the Blew Bible in Greene Arbour 1630. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE William EARLE OF PEMBROKE Lord Steward of his Majesties most Honourable Houshold Robert EARLE OF LINDSEY Great Chamberlaine of ENGLAND Henrie Lord Hunsdon Vicount Rochford Earle of Dover And all your Honourable Friends and Well-willers My Lords SIR Robert Cotton that most learned Treasurer of Antiquitie having by perusall of my Generall Historie and others found that I had likewise undergone divers other as hard hazards in the other parts of the world requested me to fix the whole course of my passages in a booke by it selfe whose noble desire I could not but in part satisfie the rather because they have acted my fatall Tragedies upon the Stage and racked my Relations at their pleasure To prevent therefore all future misprisions I have compiled this true discourse Envie hath taxed me to have writ too much and done too little but that such should know how little I esteeme them I have writ this more for the satisfaction of my friends and all generous and well disposed Readers To speake only of my selfe were intolerable ingratitude because having had so many co-partners with me I cannot make a Monument for my selfe and leave them unburied in the fields whose lives begot me the title of a Souldier for as they were companions with me in my dangers so shall they be partakers with me in this Tombe For my Sea Grammar caused to bee printed by my worthy friend Sir Samuel Saltonstall hath found such good entertainment abroad that I have beene importuned by many noble persons to let this also passe the Presse Many of the most eminent Warriers and others what their swords did their penns writ Though I bee never so much their inferiour yet I hold it no great errour to follow good examples nor repine at them will doe the like And now my most Honourable good Lords I know not to whom I may better present it than to your Lordships whose friendships as I conceive are as much to each others as my duty is to you all and because you are acquainted both with my endevours and writings I doubt not but your honours will as well accept of this as of the rest and Patronize it under the shadow of your most noble vertues which I am ever bound in all duty to reverence and under which I hope to have shelter against all stormes that dare threaten Your Honours to be commanded IOHN SMITH The Contents of the severall Chapters CHAP. I. HIs birth apprentiship going into France his beginning with ten shillings and three pence his service in Netherlands his bad passage into Scotland his returne to Willoughby and how he lived in the woods page 1. Chap. 2. The notable villany of foure French Gallants and his revenge Smith throwne over-boord Captaine La Roche of Saint Malo releeves him 3. Chap. 3. A desperate Sea-sight in the Straights his passage to Rome Naples and the view of Italy 5. Chap. 4. The Siege of Olumpagh an excellent stratagem by Smith another not much worse 6. Chap. 5. The siege of Stowlle-Wesenburg the effects of Smiths Fire-workers a worthy exploit of the Earle Rosworme Earle Meldritch takes the Bashaw prisoner 8. Chap. 6. A brave encounter of the Turks armie with the Christians Duke Mercury overthroweth Assan Bashaw He divides the Christian armie his noblenesse and death 9. Chap. 7. The unhappy siege of Caniza Earle Meldritch serveth Prince Sigismundus Prince Moyses besiegeth Regall Smiths three single combats 11. Chap. 8. Georgio Busca an Albane his ingratitude to Prince Sigismundus Prince Moyses his Lieutenant is overthrowne by Busca Generall for the Emperour Rodulphus Smiths Patent from Sigismundus and reward 14. Chap. 9. Sigismundus sends Ambassadours unto the Emperour the conditions re-assured he yeeldeth up all to Busca and returneth to Prague 18. Chap. 10. The Battell of Rottenton a pretty stratagem of fire-workes by Smith 20. Chap. 11. The names of the English that were slaine in the battle of Rottenton and how Captaine Smith was taken prisoner and sold for a slave 21. Chap. 12. How Captaine Smith was sent prisoner thorow the Blacke and Dissabacca Sea in Tartaria the description of those Seas and his usage 23. Chap. 13. The Turks diet the Slaves diet the attire of the Tartars and manner of Warres and Religions c. 24. Chap. 14. The description of the Crym-Tartars their houses and carts their idolatry in their lodgings 26. Chap. 15. Their feasts common diet Princes estate buildings lawes slaves entertainment of Ambassadours 27. Chap. 16. How be levieth an Armie their Armes and Provision how he divideth the spoile and his service to the Great Turke 29. Chap. 17. How Captaine Smith escaped his captivity slew the Bashaw of Nalbrits in Cambia his passage to Russia Transilvania and the middest of Europe to Affrica 31. Chap. 18. The observations of Captaine Smith Mr. Henry Archer and others in Barbary 34. Chap. 19. The strange discoveries and observations of the Portugals in Affrica 37. Chap. 20. A brave Sea-fight betwixt two Spanish men of warre and Captaine Merham with Smith 39. Chap. 21. The continuation of the generall History of Virginia the Summer Iles and New England with their present estate from 1624. to this present 1629. 41. Chap. 22. The proceedings and present estate of the Summer Iles from An. Dom. 1624. to this present 1629. 45. Chap. 23. The proceedings and present estate of New England since 1624. to this present 1629. 46. Chap. 24. A briefe discourse of divers voyages made unto the goodly Country of Guiana and the great River of the Amazons relating also the present Plantation there 48. Chap. 25. The beginning and proceedings of the new plantation of St. Christopher by Captaine Warner 51. Chap. 26. The first planting of the Barbados 55. Chap. 27. The first plantation of the I le of Mevis 56. Chap. 28. The bad life qualities and conditions of Pyrats

thy Selfe a Souldier true in all parts Thy Armes are deckt with that thy Sword hath wonne Which mallice can't out-weare till day be done For three proud Turks in single fight thou 'st slue Their Heads adorne thy Armes for witnesse true Let Mars and Neptune both with Pregnant wit Extoll thy due deserts He pray for it SALO TANNER THE TRVE TRAVELS ADVENTVRES AND OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAINE IOHN SMITH in Europe Asia Africke and America beginning about the yeere 1593. and continued to this present 1629. CHAP. I. His Birth Apprentiship Going into France His beginning with ten shillings and three pence His Service in Netherlands His bad passage into Scotland His returne to Willoughby And how he lived in the Woods HE was borne in Willoughby in Lincolne-shire and a Scholler in the two Free-schooles of Alford and Louth His father anciently descended from the ancient Smiths of Crudley in Lancashire his mother from the Rickands at great Heck in York-shire His parents dying when he was about thirteene yeeres of age left him a competent meanes which hee not being capable to manage little regarded his minde being even then set upon brave adventures sould his Satchell bookes and all he had intending secretly to get to Sea but that his fathers death stayed him But now the ●uardians of his estate more regarding it than him he had libertie enough though no meanes to get beyond the Sea About the age of fifteene yeares hee was bound an Apprentice to Mr. Thomas Sendall of Linne the greatest Merchant of all those parts but because hee would not presently send him to Sea he never saw his master in eight yeeres after At last he ●ound meanes to attend Mr. Perigrine Barty into France second sonne to the Right Honourable Perigrine that generous Lord Willoughby and famous Souldier where comming to his brother Robert then at Orleans now Earle of Linsey and Lord great Chamberlaine of England being then but little youths under Tuto●age his service being needlesse within a moneth or six weekes they sent him backe againe to his friends who when he came from London they liberally gave him but out of his owne estate ten shillings to be rid of him such oft is the share of fatherlesse children but those two Honourable Brethren gave him sufficient to returne for England But it was the least thought of his determination for now being freely at libertie in Paris growing acquainted with one Master David Hume who making some use of his purse gave him Letters to his friends in Scotland to preferre him to King Iames. Arriving at Roane he better bethinkes himselfe seeing his money neere spent downe the River he went to Haver de grace where he first began to learne the life of a souldier Peace being concluded in France he went with Captaine Ioseph Duxbury into the Low-countries under whose Colours having served three or foure yeeres he tooke his journey for Scotland to deliver his Letters At Ancusan he imbarked himselfe for Lethe but as much danger as shipwracke and sicknesse could endure hee had at the holy I le in Northumberland neere Barwicke being recovered into Scotland he went to deliver his Letters After much kinde usage amongst those honest Scots at Ripweth and Broxmoth but neither money nor meanes to make him a Courtier he returned to Willoughby in Lincolne-shire where within a short time being glutted with too much company wherein he took small delight he retired himselfe into a little wooddie pasture a good way from any towne invironed with many hundred Acres of other woods Here by a faire brook he built a Pavillion of boughes where only in his cloaths he lay His studie was Machiavills Art of warre and Marcus Aurelius his exercise a good horse with his lance and Ring his food was thought to be more of venison than any thing else what he wanted his man brought him The countrey wondering at such an Hermite His friends perswaded one Seignior Theadora Polaloga Rider to Henry Earle of Lincolne an excellent Horse-man and a noble Italian Gentleman to insinuate into his wooddish acquaintances whose Languages and good discourse and exercise of riding drew him to stay with him at Tattersall Long these pleasures could not content him but hee returned againe to the Low-Countreyes Chap II. The notable villany of foure French Gallants and his revenge Smith throwne over-board Captaine La Roche of Saint Malo releeves him THus when France and Netherlands had taught him to ride a Horse and use his Armes with such rudiments of warre as his tender yeeres in those martiall Schooles could attaine unto he was desirous to see more of the world and trie his fortune against the Turkes both lamenting and repenting to have seene so many Christians slaughter one another Opportunitie casting him into the company of foure French Gallants well attended faining to him the one to be a great Lord the rest his Gentlemen and that they were all devoted that way over-perswaded him to goe with them into France to the Dutchesse of Mercury from whom they should not only have meanes but also Letters of favour to her noble Duke then Generall for the Emperour Rodolphus in Hungary which he did with such ill weather as winter affordeth in the darke night they arrived in the broad shallow In-let of Saint Va●leries sur Some in Picardie his French Lord knowing he had good apparell and better furnished with money than themselves so plotted with the Master of the ship to set his and their owne trunckes a shore leaving Smith aboard till the boat could returne which was the next day after towards evening the reason hee alleaged was the sea went so high hee could come no sooner and that his Lord was gone to Amiens where they would stay his comming which treacherous villany when divers other souldiers and passengers understood they had like to have slaine the Master and had they knowne how would have runne away with the ship Comming on shore hee had but one Carralue was forced to sell his cloake to pay for his passage One of the souldiers called Curzianvere compassionating his injury assured him this great Lord Depreau was only the sonne of a Lawyer of Mortaigne in base Britany and his Attendants Cursell La Nelie and Monferrat three young citizens as arrant cheats as himselfe but if he would accompany him he would bring him to their friends but in the interim supplied his wants thus travelling by Deepe Codebeck Humphla Pount-demer in Normandie they came to Cane in base Normandie where both this noble Curzianvere and the great Prior of the great Abbey of S. Steven where is the ruinous Tombe of William the Conquerour and many other of his friends kindly welcomed him and brought him to Mortaigne where hee found Depreau and the rest but to small purpose for Mr. Curzianvere was a banished man and durst not be seene but to his friends yet the bruit of their cosenage occasioned the Lady Collumber the Baron Larshan the Lord Shasghe

and divers other honourable persons to supply his wants and with them to recreate himselfe so long as hee would but such pleasant pleasures suited little with his poore estate and his restlesse spirit that could never finde content to receive such noble favours as he could neither deserve nor requite but wandring from Port to Port to finde some man of war spent that he had and in a Forest neere dead with griefe and cold a rich Farmer found him by a faire Fountaine under a tree This kinde Pesant releeved him againe to his content to follow his intent Not long after as he passed thorow a great grove of trees betweene Pounterson and Dina in Britaine it was has chance to meet Cursell more miserable than himselfe His piercing injuries had so small patience as without any word they both drew and in a short time Cursell fell to the ground where from an old ruinated Tower the inhabitants seeing them were satisfied when they heard Cursell confesse what had formerly passed and that how in the dividing that they had stolne from him they fell by the ears amongst themselves that were actors in it but for his part he excused himselfe to be innocent as well of the one as of the other In regard of his hurt Smith was glad to be so rid of him directing his course to an honourable Lord the Earle of Ployer who during the warre in France with his two brethren Viscount Poomory and Baron d' Mercy who had beene brought up in England by him he was better refurnished than ever When they had shewed him Saint Malo Mount Saint Michael Lambal Simbreack Lanion and their owne faire Castle of Tuncadeck Gingan and divers other places in Britanny and their Brittish Cornwaile taking his leave he tooke his way to Raynes the Britaines chiefe Citie and so to Nantes Poyters Rochell and Burdeaux The ●umour of the strength of Bayon in Biskay caused him to see it and from thence tooke his way from Leskar in Biearne Paw in the kingdom of Navar to Tolouz 〈◊〉 Gascoigne Bezers and Carcassone Narbone Montpellier Nimes in Languedock and thorow the Country of Avignion by Arles to Marcellos in Province there imbarking himselfe for Italy the ship was enforced to Tolonne and putting againe to sea ill weather so grew upon them they anchored close aboard the shore under the little Isle of S. Mary against Neice in Savoy Here the inhumane Provincialls with a rabble of Pilgrimes of divers Nations going to Rome hourely cursing him not only for a Hugonoit but his Nation they swore were all Pyrats and so vildly railed on his dread Soveraigne Queene Elizabeth and that they never should have faire weather so long as hee was aboard them their disputations grew to that passion that they threw him over-board yet God brought him to that little Isle where was no inhabitants but a few kine and goats The next morning he espied two ships more riding by them put in by the storme that fetched him aboard well refreshed him and so kindly used him that he was well contented to trie the rest of his fortune with them After he had related unto them his former discourse what for pitie and the love of the Honourable Earle of Ployer this noble Britaine his neighbour Captaine la Roche of Saint Malo regarded and entertained him for his well respected friend With the next faire wind they failed along by the Coast of Corsica and Sardinia and crossing the gulfe of Tunis passed by Cape Bona to the Isle of Lampadosa leaving the coast of Barbary till they came at Cape Rosata and so along the African shore for Alexandria in Aegypt There delivering their fraught they went to Scandaroone rather to view what ships was in the Roade than any thing else keeping their course by Cypres and the coast of Asia sayling by Rhodes the Archipellagans Candia and the coast of Grecia and the Isle of Zaffalonia They lay to and againe a few dayes betwixt the Isle of Corfue and the Cape of Otranto in the Kingdome of Naples in the Entrance of the Adriatike sea CHAP. III. A desperate Sea-fight in the Straights His passage to Rome Naples and the view of Italy BEtwixt the two Capes they meet with an Argosie of Venice it seemed the Captaine desired to speake with them whose untoward answer was such as slew them a man whereupon the Britaine presently gave them the broad-side then his Sterne and his other broad-side also and continued the chase with his chase peeces till he gave them so many broad-sides one after another that the Argosies sayles and tackling was so torne she stood to her defence and made shot for shot twice in one houre and a halfe the Britaine boarded her yet they cleared themselves but clapping her aboard againe the Argosie fired him which with much danger to them both was presently quenched This rather augmented the Britaines rage than abated his courage for having reaccommodated himselfe againe shot her so oft betweene wind and water shee was readie to sinke then they yeelded the Britaine lost fifteene men she twentie besides divers were hurt the rest went to worke on all hands some to stop the leakes others to guard the prisoners that were chained the rest to rifle her The Silkes Velvets Cloth of gold and Tissue Pyasters Chicqueenes and Sultanies which is gold and silver they unloaded in foure and twentie houres was wonderfull where of having sufficient and tired with toile they cast her off with her company with as much good merchandize as would have fraughted such another Britaine that was but two hundred Tunnes she foure or five hundred To repaire his defects hee stood for the coast of Calabria but hearing there was six or seven Galleyes at Mesina hee departed thence for Malta but the wind comming faire he kept his course along the coast of the Kingdome of Sicilia by Sardinia and Corsica till he came to the Road of Antibo in Peamon where he set Smith on shore with fiue hundred chicqueenes and a little box God sent him worth neere as much more Here he left this noble Britaine and embarked himselfe for Lygorne being glad to have such opportunitie and meanes to better his experience by the view of Italy and having passed Tuskany and the Countrey of Sieana where hee found his deare friends the two Honourable Brethren the Lord Willoughby and his Brother cruelly wounded in a desperate fray yet to their exceeding great honour Then to Viterbo and many other Cities he came to Rome where it was his chance to see Pope Clement the eight with many Cardinalls creepe up the holy Stayres which they say are those our Saviour Christ went up to Pontius Pilate where bloud falling from his head being pricked with his crowne of thornes the drops are marked with nailes of steele upon them none dare goe but in that manner saying so many Ave-Maries and Pater-nosters as is their devoton and to kisse

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

England There are above thirtie faire rivers that fall into the Sea betweene the River of Amazons and Oranoca which are some nine degrees asunder In the yeare 1605. Captaine Ley brother to that noble Knight S●r Oliver Ley with divers others planted himselfe in the River Weapoco wherein I should have beene a partie but hee dyed and there lyes ●urie● and the supply miscarrying the rest escaped as they could S●r Thomas Roe well k●ow●n to be a most noble Gentleman before he went Lord Ambassadour to the Great Mogoll or the Great Turke spent a yeare or two upon this Coast and about the River of the Amazones wherein he most imployed Captaine Matthew Morton an expert Sea-man in the discoverie of this famous River a Gentleman that was the first shot and mortally supposed wounded to death with me in Virginia yet si●ce h●th beene twice with command in the East Indies Also Captaine William White and divers others worthy and industrious Gentlemen both before and since hath spent much time and charge to discover it more perfitly but nothing more effected for a Plantation t●●●ic was undertaken by Captaine Robert Harcote 1609. This worthy Gentleman after he had by Commission made a discoverie to his minde left his brother Michael Harcote with some fiftie or sixtie m●n in the River Weapoco and so presently returned to England where he obtained by the favour of Prince Henrie a large Patent for all that Coast called Guiana together with the famous River of Amazones to him and his heires but so many troubles here surprized him though he did his best to supply them he was not able only some few hee sent over as passengers with certaine Du●ch-men but to small purpose Thus this businesse lay dead for divers yeeres till Sir Walter Rauleigh accompanied with many valiant Souldiers and brave Gentlemen went his last voyage to Guiana amongst the which was Captaine Roger North brother to the Right Honourable the Lord Dudley North who upon this voyage having stayed and seene divers Rivers upon this Coast tooke such a liking to those Countreyes having had before this voyage more perf●ct and particular information of the excellencie of the great River of the Amazones above any of the rest by certaine Englishmen returned so rich from thence in good commodities they would not goe with Sir Walter Rauleigh in search of gold that after his returne for England he end●voured by his best abilities to interest his Countrey and st●te in those f●re Regions which by the way of Lette●s Patents unto divers Noblemen and Gentlemen of qualitie erected into a company and perpetu●tie for trade and plantation not knowing of the Interest of Captaine Harcote Where upon accompanied with 120. Gentlemen and others with a ship a pi●nace and two sh●llops to remaine in the Countrey hee set saile from Plimouth the last of April 1620 and within seven weekes after hee arrived well in the Amazones only with the losse of one old man some hundred leagues they ran up the River to settle his men where the sight of the Countrey and people so contented them that never men thought themselves more happie Some English and Irish that had lived there some eight yeeres on●y supplyed by the Dutch hee reduced to his company and to leave the Dutch having made a good voyage to the value of more than the charge he returned to Englangd with divers good commodities besides Tobacco So that it may well be conceived that if this action had not beene thus crossed the Ge●eralitie of England had by this time beene wonne and encouraged therein But the time was not yet come that God would have this great businesse effected by reason of the great power the Lord Gundamore Amb●ssadour for the King of Spaine had in England to crosse and ruine those proceedings and so unfortunate Captaine North was in this businesse hee was twice committed prisoner to the Tower and the goods detained till they were spoiled who beyond all others was by much the greatest Adventurer and Loser Notwithstanding all this those that he had left in the Amazons would not abandon the Countrey Captaine Thomas Painton a worthy Gentleman his Lieutenant dead Captaine Charles Parker brother to the Right Honourable the Lord Morley lived there six yeares after Mr. Iohn Christmas five yeares so well they would not returne although they might with divers ether Gentle-men of qualitie and others all thus destitute of any supplyes from England But all authoritie being d●ssolved want of government did more wrong their proceedings than all other crosses whatsoever Some releefe they had sometime from the Dutch who knowing their estates gave what they pleased and tooke what they list Two brothers Gentlemen Thomas and William Hixon who stayed three yeares there are now gone to stay in the Amazons in the ships lately sent thither The businesse thus remaining in this sort three private men left of that Company named Mr Thomas Warriner Iohn Rhodes and Robert Bims having lived there about two yeares came for England and to be free from the disorders that did grow in the Amazons for want of Government amongst their Countrey-men and to be quiet amongst themselves made meanes to set themselves out for St. Christophers their whole number being but fifteene persons that payed for their passage in a ship going for Virginia where they remained a yeare before they were supplyed and then that was but foure or five men Thus this I le by this small beginning having no interruption by their owne Countrey hath now got the start of the Continent and maine Land of Guiana which hath beene layd apart and let alone untill that Captaine North ever watching his best opportunitie and advantage of time in the state hath now againe pursued and set on foot his former designe Captaine Harco●e being now willing to surrender his grant and to joyne with Captaine North in passing a new Patent and to erect a company for trade and plantation in the Amazons and all the Coast and Countrey of Guiana for ever Whereupon they have sent this present yeare in Ianuarie and since 1628. foure ships with neere two hundred persons the first ship with 112. men not one miscarried that rest went since not yet heard of and are preparing another with their best expedition and since Ianuarie is gone from Holland 100. English and Irish conducted by the old Planters This great River lieth under the Line the two chiefe head lands North and South are about three degrees asunder the mouth of it is so full of many great and small Iles it is an easie matter for an unexperienced Pilot to lose his way It is held one of the greatest rivers in America and as most men thinke in the world and commeth downe with such a fresh it maketh the Sea fresh more than thirtie miles from the shore Captaine North having seated his men about an hundred leagues in the Maine sent Captaine William White with th●rtie Gentlemen