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A12461	The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning. an⁰: 1584. to this present 1624. With the procedings of those severall colonies and the accidents that befell them in all their journyes and discoveries. Also the maps and descriptions of all those countryes, their commodities, people, government, customes, and religion yet knowne. Divided into sixe bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Barra, John, ca. 1574-1634, engraver.	1624 (1624)	STC 22790; ESTC S111882	354,881	269

no such matter and that he would lend me m●n to fish and hunt He sent me word he would come himselfe to Roanock but delaying time eight dayes that all his men were there to be assembled not liking so much company I resolued the next day to goe visit him but first to giue them in the I le a Canvisado and at an instant to seaze on all their Canows about the I le But the towne tooke the Alarum before I ment it For when I sent to take the Canows he met one going from the shore ouerthrew her and cut off two Salvages heads wherevpon the cry arose being by their spyes perceiued for they kept as good watch over vs as we of them Vpon this they to their Bowes and we to our Armes three or foure of them at the first were slaine the rest fled into the woods The next morning I went to Dassamonpeack and sent Pemissapan word I was going to Croatan and tooke him in my way to complaine Osocon would haue stole my prisoner Skico Herevpon he did abide my comming being among eight of the principall est I gaue the watchword to my men and immediately they had that they purposed for vs. Himselfe being shot through with a Pistoll fell downe as dead but presently start vp and ran away from them all till an Irish Boy shot him over the buttocks where they tooke him and cut off his head Seauen dayes after Captaine Stafforton sent to me he descryed twentie-three Sayle The next day came to me himselfe of whom I must say this from the first to the last he neither spared labour or perill by land or sea fayre weather or foule to performe any serious seruice committed to him He brought me a letter from Sir Francis Drake whose generous mind offered to supply all my defects of shipping boats munition victuall clothes and men to further this action and vpon good consultation and deliberation he appointed me a ship of 70. tuns with an hundred men and foure moneths victuals two Pinnaces foure small Boats with two sufficient Masters with sufficient Gangs All this being made ready for me suddenly arose such a storme for foure dayes that had like to haue driuen the whole Fleete on shore many of them were forced to the Sea whereof my ship so lately giuen me was one with all my prouision and Company appoynted Notwithstanding the storme ceasing the Generall appointed me a ship of 170. tuns with all prouisions as before to carry me into England the next August or when I had performed such Discoueries as I thought fit Yet they durst not vndertake to bring her into the harbour but she must ride in the road leauing the care of the rest to my selfe advising me to consider with my Company what was fittest and with my best speed returne him answer Herevpon calling my Company together who were all as priuy of the Generals offer as my selfe their whole request was in regard of all those former miseries and no hope of the returne of Sir Richard Grenvill and with a generall consent they desired me to vrge him we might all goe with him for England in his Fleete for whose reliefe in that storme he had sustained more perill of wrack then in all his honorable actions against his enemies So with prayses to God we set sayle in Iune 1586. and arriued in Portsmouth the 27. of Iuly the same yeare Leaving this remembrance to posteritie To reason lend me thine attentiue eares Exempt thy selfe from mind-distracting cares Least that's here thus proiected for thy good By thee reiected be ere vnderstood Written by Mr Ralph Layne Governour The Observations of Mr. Thomas Heriot in this Voyage For Marchandize and Victualls WHat before is writ is also confirmed by that learned Mathematician Mr Thomas Heriot with them in the Country whose particular Relation of all the Beasts Birds Fishes Foules Fruites and Rootes and how they may be vsefull because I haue writ it before for the most part in the Discourse of Captaine Amidas and Captaine Layne except Silk grasse Wormesilke Flax like Hempe Allum Wapeith or Terra sigillata Tar Rosen Turpentine Civet-cats Iron ore Copper that hold Silver Coprose and Pearle Let those briefes suffice because I would not trouble you with one thing twice Dyes For Dyes Showmack the herbe Wasebur little rootes called Chapacor and the barke of a tree called by the Inhabitants Tangomockonominge which are for divers sorts of Reds What more then is related is an herbe in Dutch called Melden described like an Orange growing foure foote high the seede will make good broth and the stalke burnt to ashes makes a kinde of Salt other Salt they know not and we vsed of it for Pot-herbs Of their Tobacco we found plenty which they esteeme their chiefe Physicke Ground nuts Tiswaw we call China roots they grow in clusters and bring forth a bryer stalke but the leafe is far vnlike which will climbe vp to the top of the highest tree the vse knowne is to cut it in small peeces then stampe straine it with water and boyled makes a gelly good to eate Cassavia growes in Marishes which the Indians oft vse for bread and broth Habascon is like a Parsnip naught of it selfe except compounded and their Leekes like those in England Sequenummener a kinde of Berry like Capers and three kinde of Berries like Acornes called Sagatamenor Osamenor and Pummuckoner Saquenuckot and Maquowoc two kinde of beasts greater then Conies and very good meate in some places such plenty of gray Conies like hayres that all the people make them mantels of their skins I haue the names of 28. severall sorts that are dispersed in the Country of which 12. kindes we haue discouered and good to eate but the Salvages sometimes kill a Lyon and eate him There is plentie of Sturgeon in February March Aprill and May all Herings in abundance some such as ours but the most part of 18.20 or 24. ynche● long and more Trouts Porpisses Rayes Mullers Old-wiues Pla●ce Tortoises both by Sea and Land Crabs Oysters Mussels Scalops Periwinckles Crevises Secanank we haue the Pictures of 12. sorts more but their names we know not Turkeys Stockdoues Partridges Cranes Hernes Swans Geese Parrots Faulcons Merlins I haue the names in their language of 86. severall sorts Their woods are such as ours in England for the most part except Rakeock a grea● sweet tree whereof they make their Canowes and Ascopo a kinde of tree like Lowrell and Saxefras Their Natures and Manners Their Clothing Townes Houses Warres Arts Tooles handy crafts and educations are much like them in that part of Virginia we now inhabite which at large you may reade in the Description thereof But the relation of their Religion is strange as this Author reporteth Some Religion they haue which although it be farre from the truth yet being as it is there is hope it may be the

feare being gone and our men recovered we were all content to take some paines to know the name of that seuen mile broad riuer for thirtie myles sayle we could see no inhabitants then we were conducted by two Savages vp a little bayed creeke towards Onawmanient where all the woods were layd with ambuscado's to the number of three or foure thousand Salvages so strangely paynted grimed and disguised shouting yelling and crying as so many spirits from hell could not haue shewed more terrible Many brauado's they made but to appeale their fury our Captaine prepared with as seeming a willingnesse as they to incounter them But the grazing of our bullets vpon the water many being shot on purpose they might see them with the Ecco of the of the woods so amazed them as downe went their bowes and arrowes and exchanging hostage Iames Watkins was sent six myles vp the woods to their Kings habitation We were kindly vsed of those Salvages of whom we vnderstood they were commanded to betray vs by the direction of Powhatan and he so directed from the discontents at Iames towne because our Captaine did cause them stay in their country against their w●lls The like incounters we found at Patowomek Cecocawonee and diuers other places but at Moyaones Nacotchtant and Toegs the people did their best to content vs. Hauing gone so high as we could with the bote we met diuers Saluages in Canowes well loaden with the flesh of Beares ●eere and other beasts whereof we had part here we found mighty Rocks growing in some places aboue the grownd as high as the shrubby trees and diuers other solid quarries of diuers tinctures and diuers places where the waters had falne from the high mountaines they had left a tinctured spāgled skurfe that made many bare places seeme as guilded Digging the growne aboue in the highest clifts of rocks we saw it was a claie sand so mingled with yeallow spangles as if it had beene halfe pin-dust In our returne inquiring still for this Matchqueon the king of Patawomeke gaue vs guides to conduct vs vp a little riuer called Quiyough vp which we rowed so high as we could Leauing the bote with six shot and diuers Salvages he marched seuen or eight myle before they came to the mine leading his hostages in a small chaine they were to haue for their paines being proud so richly to be adorned The mine is a great Rocky mountaine like Antimony wherein they digged a great hole with shells hatchets and hard by it runneth a fayre brooke of Christal-like water where they wash a way the drosse and keepe the remainder which they put in little baggs and sell it all ouer the country to paint there bodyes faces or Idols which makes them looke like Blackmores dusted over with siluer With so much as we could carry we returned to our bote kindly requiting this kinde king and all his kinde people The cause of this discovery was to search this mine of which Newport did assure vs that those small baggs we had giuen him in England he had tryed to hold halfe siluer but all we got proued of no value also to search what furrs the best whereof is at Cuscarawaoke where is made so much Rawranoke or white beads that occasion as much dissention among the the Salvages as gold and siluer amongst Christians and what other mineralls riuers rocks nations woods fishings fruites victuall and what other commodities the land afforded and whether the bay were endles●e or how farre it extended of mines we were all ignorant but a few Beuers Otters Beares Martins and minkes we found and in diuers places that aboundance of fish lying so thicke with their heads aboue the water as for want of nets our barge driuing amongst them we attempted to catch them with a frying pan but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with neither better fish more pl●nty nor more variety for smal fish had any of vs euer seene in any place so swimming in the water but they are not to be caught with frying pans some small codd also we did see swim close by the shore by Smiths Iles and some as high as Riccards Clifts And some we haue found dead vpon the shore To exprest all our quarrels trecheries and incounters amongst those Salvages I should be too tedious but in breefe at all times we so incountred them and curbed their insolencies that they concluded with presents to purchase peace yet we lost not a man at our first meeting out Captaine euer obserued this order to demand their bowes and arrowes swordes mantells and furrs with some childe or two for hostage whereby we could quickly perceiue when they intended any villany Hauing finished this discouery though our victuall was neere spent he intended to see his imprisonment-acquaintances vpon the riuer of Rapahanock by many called Toppahanock but our bote by reason of the ebbe chansing to grownd vpon a many shoules lying in the entrances we spyed many fishes lurking in the reedes our Captaine spotting himselfe by nayling them to the grownd with his sword set vs all a fishing in that manner thus we tooke more in owne houre then we could eate in a day But it chansed our Captaine taking a fish from his sword not knowing her condition being much of the fashion of a Thornback but a long tayle like a ryding rodde whereon the middest is a most poysoned sting of two or three inches long bearded like a saw on each side which she strucke into the wrest of his arme neere an inch and a halfe no bloud nor wound was seene but a little blew spot but the torment was instantly so extreame that in foure houres had so swolen his hand arme and shoulder we all with much sorrow concluded his funerall and prepared his graue in an Island by as himselfe directed yet it pleased God by a precious oyle Docter Russell at the first applyed to it when he sounded it with pro●e ere night his tormenting paine was so well asswaged that he eate of the fish to his supper which gaue no lesse ioy and content to vs then ease to himselfe for which we called the Island Stingray Isle after the name of the fish Hauing neither Chirurgian nor Chirurgery but that preseruatiue oyle we presētly set sayles for Iames towne passing the mouthes of the riuers of Payankatank Pamavnkee the next day we safely arriued at Kecougtan The simple Salvages seeing our Captaine hurt and an other bloudy by breaking his shinne our numbers of bowes arrowes swords mantles and furrs would needes imagine we had beene at warres the truth of these accidents would not satisfie them but impatiently importuned vs to know with whom Finding their aptnesse to beleeue we fayled not as a great secret to tell them any thing that might affright them what spoyle we had got and made of the Massawomeks This rumor went faster vp the river then our Barge that arrived at

charge but care must be had they arriue in the Spring or else that prouision be made for them against winter Of certaine red berries called Kermes which is worth ten shillings the pound but of these haue beene sold for thirty or forty shillings the pound may yeerely be gathered a good quantity Of the Muskrat may be well raised gaines worth their labour that will endeuour to make triall of their goodnesse Of Beuers Otters and Martins blacke Foxes and Furres of price may yeerely be had six or seuen thousand and if the trade of the French were preuented many more 25000. this yeere were brought from those northerne parts into France of which trade we may haue as good part as the French if we take good courses Of Mines of Gold and Siluer Copper and probabilities of Lead Crystall and Allum I could say much if relations were good assurances it is true indeed I made many trialls according to the instructions I had which doth perswade me I need not despaire but that there are metals in the Country but I am no Alcumist nor will promise more then I know which is who will vndertake the rectifying of an iron Forge if those that buy meat and drinke coles ore and all necessaries at a deare rate gaine where all these things are to be had for taking vp in my opinion cannot lose Of woods seeing there is such plenty of all sorts if those that build ships and boats buy wood at so great a price as it is in England Spaine France and Holland and all other prouisions for the nourishment of mans life liue well by their trade when labour is all required to take these necessaries without any other tax what hazard will be here but to doe much better and what commodity in Europe doth more decay then wood for the goodnesse of the ground let vs take it fertill or barren or as it is seeing it is certaine it beares fruits to nourish and feed man beast as well as England and the Sea those seuerall sorts of fishes I haue related thus seeing all good things for mans sustenance may with this facility be had by a little extraordinary labour till that transported be increased all necessaries for shipping onely for labour to which may added the assistance of the Saluages which may easily be had if they be discreetly handled in their kinds towards fishing planting and destroying woods what gaines might be raised if this were followed when there is but once men to fill your store houses dwelling there you may serue all Europe better and farre cheaper then can the Iland Fishers or the Hollanders Cape-blanke or Newfound land who must be at much more charge then you may easily be coniectured by this example Two thousand will fit out a ship of 200. tunnes one of 100. tuns if of the dry fish they both make fraught that of 200. and goe for Spaine sell it but at ten shillings a quintall but commonly it giues fifteene or twenty especially when it commeth first which amounts to 3. or 4000 pound but say but ten which is the lowest allowing the rest for waste it amounts at that rate to 2000. which is the whole charge of your two ships and the equipage then the returne of the mony and the fraught of the ship for the vintage or any other voyage is cleere gaine with your ship of one hundred tunnes of traine Oile and Cor-fish besides the Beuers and other commodities and that you may haue at home within six moneths if God please to send but an ordinary passage then sauing halfe this charge by the not staying of your ships your victuall ouerplus of men and wages with her fraught thither with necessaries for the Planters the Salt being there made as also may the nets and lines within a short time if nothing may be expected but this it might in time equalize your Hollanders gaines if not exceede them hauing their fraughts alwaies ready against the arriuall of the ships this would so increase our shipping and sailers and so incourage and imploy a great part of our Idlers and others that want imployment fitting their qualities at home where they shame to doe that they would doe abroad that could they but once taffe the sweet fruits of their owne labours doubtlesse many thousands would be aduised by good discipline to take more pleasure in honest industry then in their humors of dissolute idlenesse But to returne a little more to the particulars of this Countrey which I intermingle thus with my proiects and reasons not being so sufficiently yet acquainted in those parts to write fully the estate of the Sea the Aire the Land the Fruits their Rocks the People the Gouernment Religion Territories Limitations Friends and Foes But as I gathered from their niggardly relations in a broken language during the time I ranged those Countries c. the most Northerne part I was at was the Bay of Pennobscot which is East and West North and South more then ten leagues but such were my occasions I was constrained to be satisfied of them I found in the Bay that the Riuer ranne farre vp into the Land and was well inhabited with many people but they were from their habitations either fishing amongst the Iles or hunting the Lakes and Woods for Deere and Beuers the Bay is full of great Iles of one two six or eight miles in length which diuides it into many faire and excellent good Harbours On the East of it are the Tarrentines their mortall enemies where inhabit the French as they report that liue with those people as one Nation or Family And Northwest of Pennobscot is Mecaddacut at the foot of a high Mountaine a kinde of fortresse against the Tarrentines adioyning to the high Mountaines of Pennobscot against whose feet doth beat the Sea but ouer all the Land Iles or other impediments you may well see them foureteene or eighteene leagues from their situation Segocket is the next then Nuskoucus Pemmaquid and Sagadahock vp this Riuer where was the Westerne Plantation are Aumoughcawgen Kinnebeke and diuers others where are planted some Corne fields Along this Riuer thirtie or fortie miles I saw nothing but great high clifts of barren Rocks ouergrowne with Wood but where the Saluages dwell there the ground is excellent salt and fertill Westward of this Riuer is the Country of Aucocisco in the bottome of a large deepe Bay full of many great Iles which diuides it into many good Harbours Sawocotuck is the next in the edge of a large Sandy Bay which hath many Rockes and Iles but few good Harbours but for Barkes I yet know but all this Coast to Pennobscot and as farre as I could see Eastward of it is nothing but such high craggy clifty Rockes and stony Iles that I wonder such great Trees could grow vpon so hard foundations It is a Countrey rather to affright then delight one and how to describe a

more plaine spectacle of desolation or more barren I know not yet are those rocky Iles so furnished with good Woods Springs Fruits Fish and Fowle and the Sea the strangest Fish-pond I euer saw that it makes me thinke though the coast be rocky and thus affrightable the Vallies and Plaines and interior parts may well notwithstanding be very fertill But there is no Country so fertill hath not some part barren and New-England is great enough to make many Kingdomes and Countries were it all inhabited As you passe the coast still westward Accominticus and Passataquack are two conuenient Harbours for small Barkes and a good Country within their craggy clifts Augoan is the next this place might content a right curious iudgement but there are many sands at the entrance of the Harbour and the worst is it is imbayed too farre from the deepe Sea here are many rising hils and on their tops and descents are many corne fields and delightfull groues On the East is an I le of two or three leagues in length the one halfe plaine marish ground fit for pasture or salt Ponds with many faire high groues of Mulbery trees and Gardens there is also Okes Pines Walnuts and other wood to make this place an excellent habitation being a good and safe Harbour Nai●mkeck though it be more rocky ground for Augoan is sandy not much inferiour neither for the harbour nor any thing I could perceiue but the multitude of people from hence doth stretch into the Sea the faire headland Tragabigzanda now called Cape An fronted with the three Iles wee called the three Turkes heads to the north of this doth enter a great Bay where we found some habitations and Corne fields they report a faire Riuer and at least 30. habitations doth possesse this Country But because the French had got their trade I had no leisure to discouer it the Iles of Mattahunts are on the west side of this Bay where are many Iles and some Rocks that appeare a great height aboue the water like the Pyramides in Aegypt and amongst them many good Harbours and then the country of the Massachusits which is the Paradice of all those parts for here are many Iles planted with Corne Groues Mulberies saluage Gardens and good Harbours the Coast is for the most part high clayie sandy clifts the sea Coast as you passe shewes you all along large Corne fields and great troupes of well proportioned people but the French hauing remained here neere six weekes left nothing for vs to take occasion to examine the Inhabitants relations viz. if there be three thousand people vpon those Iles and that the Riuer doth pierce many daies iourney the entrailes of that Country we found the people in those parts very kinde but in their f●ry no lesse valiant for vpon a quarrell we fought with forty or fifty of them till they had spent all their Arrowes and then we tooke six or seuen of their Canowes which towards the euening they ransomed for Beuer skinnes and at Quonahasit falling out there but with one of them he with three others crossed the Harbour in a Canow to certaine rockes whereby wee must passe and there let flie their Arrowes for our shot till we were out of danger yet one of them was slaine and another shot through his thigh Then come you to Accomacke an excellent good Harbour good land and no want of any thing but industrious people after much kindnesse wee fought also with them though some were hurt some slaine yet within an houre after they became friends Cape Cod is the next presents it selfe which is onely a headland of high hils ouer-growne with shrubby Pines hurts and such trash but an excellent harbour for all weathers This Cape is made by the maine Sea on the one side and a great Bay on the other in forme of a Sickell on it doth inhabit the people of Pawmet and in the bottome of the Bay them of Chawum towards the South and South-west of this Cape is found a long and dangerous shoule of rocks and sand but so farre as I incercled it I found thirty fathome water and a strong currant which makes mee thinke there is a chanell about this Shoule where is the best and greatest fish to be had winter and summer in all the Country but the Saluages say there is no Chanell but that the Shoales beginne from the maine at Pawm●t to the I le of Nawset and so extends beyond their knowledge into the Sea The next to this is Capawucke and those abounding Countries of Copper Corne People and Mineralls which I went to discouer this last yee●e but because I miscarried by the way I will leaue them till God please I haue better acquaintance with them The Massachusets they report sometimes haue warres with the Bashabes of Pennobscot are not alwaies friends with them of Chawum and their alliance but now they are all friends and haue each trade with other so farre as they haue society on each others frontiers for they make no such voyages as from Pennobscot to Cape Cod seldome to Massachset In the North as I haue said they haue begun to plant Corne whereof the south part hath such plenty as they haue what they will from them of the North and in the Winter much more plenty of fish and fowle but both Winter Summer hath it in one part or other all the yeere being the meane and most indifferent temper betwixt heat and cold of all the Regions betwixt the Line and the Pole but the Furs Northward are much better and in much more plenty then Southward The remarkablest Iles and Mountaines for land Markes are these the highest Ile is Sorico in the Bay of Pennobscot but the three Iles and the Iles of Matinack are much further in the Sea Merynacus is also three plaine Iles but many great Rocks Monahigan is a round high I le and close by it Monanis betwixt which is a small Harbour where we rid in Damerils Iles is such another Sagadahocke is knowne by Satquin and foure or fiue Iles in their mouth Smiths Iles are a heape together none neere them against Accomintycus the three Turkes heads are three Iles seene farre to Sea-ward in regard of the Head-land The chiefe Head-lands are onely Cape Tragabigzanda and Cape Cod now called Cape Iames and Cape A●ne The chiefe Mountaines them of Pennobscot the twinkling Mountaine of Acocisco the great Mountaine of Sassanow and the high Mountaine of M●ss●c●uset Each of which you shall finde in the Map their places forme and al●●●des The waters are most pure proceeding from the intrailes of rocky Mounta●●es the Herbs and Fruits are of many sorts and kinds as Alkermes Currans Mu●beries Vines Respises Gooseberies Plums Wall-nuts Chesse-nuts Small 〈◊〉 Pumpions Gourds Strawberies Beanes Pease and Maize a kinde or two of Flax wherewith they make Nets Lines and Ropes both small and great very strong for their quantities Oake is the

amongst vs not fearing any thing and kindly bad vs welcome in English he was a Sagamo towards the North where the ships vse to fish and did know the names of most of the Masters that vsed thither such victuall as we had we gaue him being the first Saluage we yet could speake with he told vs this place where we were was called Patuxet and that all the people three or foure yeeres agoe there died on the plague in a day or two we could not be rid of him then he returned to the Massasoyts from whence he came where is some sixty people but the Nawsits are 100. strong which were they encountred our people at the first Two daies after this Samoset for so was his name came againe and brought fiue or six of the Massasoyts with him with certaine skinnes and certaine tooles they had got that we had left in the woods at their alarums much frie●-dship they promised and so departed but Samoset would not leaue vs but fained himselfe sicke yet at last he went to entreat the Saluages come againe to confirme a peace now the third time as we were consulting of our Marshall orders two Saluages a●peared but when we went to them they vanished not long after came Samo●et Squanto a natiue of Patuxet where we dwell and one of them carried into Spaine by Hunt thence brought into England where a good time he liued and now here signified vnto vs their great Sachem of Massasoyt with Quadaquina his brother and all their men was there by to see vs not willing to send our Gouernour we sent Edward Wollisto with presents to them both to know their minds making him to vnderstand by his Interpreters how King Iames did salute him and was his friend after a little conference with twenty of his men he came ouer the brooke to our Plantation where we set him vpon a rug and then brought our Gouernour to him with Drums and Trumpets where after some circumstances for they vse few complements we treated of peace with them to this effect That neither he nor any of his should iniury or doe hurt to any of vs if they did he should send vs the offender that we might punish him and wee would doe the like to him if any did vniustly warre against him we would aid him as he should vs against our enemies and to send to his neighbour confederats to certifie them of this that they might likewise be comprised in these conditions that when any of them came to vs they should leaue their Bow and Arrowes behinde them as we would our peeces when we came to them all which the King seemed to like well of and was applauded of his followers in his person hee is a very lusty man in his best yeeres an able body graue of countenance and spare of speech in his attire little differing from the rest after all was done the Gouernour conducted him to the brooke but kept our hostage till our messengers returned in like manner we vsed Quaddaquina so all departed good friends Two of his people would haue staied with vs but wee would not permit them onely Sam●set and Squanto wee entertained kindly as yet wee haue found they intend to keepe promise for they haue not hurt our men they haue found stragling in the Woods and are afraid of their powerfull Aduersaries the Narrobiggansets against whom hee hopes to make vse of our helpe The next day Squanto went a fishing for Eeles and in an houre he did tread as many out of the Ose with his feet as he could lift with his hand not hauing any other instrument But that we might know their habitations so well as they ours Stephen Hopkins and Edward Winslo had Squa●tum for their guide and Interpreter to Packanoki the habitation of the King of Massasoyt with a red horsemans coat for a present to entreat him by reason we had not victuall to entertaine them as we would he would defend his people so much from visiting vs and if hee did send he should alwaies send with the Messenger a copper Chaine they gaue him that they might know he came from him and also giue them some of his Corne for seede that night they lodged at Namasoet some fifteene miles off by the way we found ten or twelue women and children that still would pester vs till we were weary of them perceiuing it is the manner of them where victuall is to bee gotten with most ease there they will liue but on that Riuer of Namasch●t haue beene many habitations of the Saluages that are dead and the land lies waste and the Riuer abounding with great plenty of fish and hath beene much frequented by the French The next day trauelling with six or seuen Indians where we were to wade ouer the Riuer did dwell onely two old men of that Nation then liuing that thinking vs enemies sought the best aduantage they could to fight with vs with a wonderfull shew of courage but when they knew vs their friends they kindly welcommed vs after we came to a towne of the Massasoits but at Pakanoki the King was not towards night he arriued and was very proud both of our message and presents making a great oration to all his people Was not he Massasint Commander of the country about him was not such a towne his and the people of it and 20. townes more he named was his and should they not bring their skins to vs to which they answered they were his and they would victual they had none nor any lodging but a poore planke or two a foot high from the ground wheron his wife and he lay at the one end we at the other but a thin Mat vpon them two more of his chiefe men pressed by and vpon vs so that we were worse weary of our lodging then of our iourney Although there is such plenty of fish and fowle and wild beasts yet are they so lasie they will not take paines to catch it till meere hunger constraine them for in two or three daies we had scarce a meales meat whereby we were so faint we were glad to be at home besides what for the fleas and their howling and singing in the night in their houses and the Musketas without doores our heads were as light for want of sleepe as our bellies empty for want of meat The next voiage we made was in a Shallop with ten men to Nawsit sixteene miles from vs to fetch a Boy was lost in the Woods we heard was there whom Aspinet their King had bedecked like a saluage but very kindly he brought him to vs and so returned well to Patuyet Immediatly after the arriuall of the last ship they sent another of fiue and fifty tuns to supply them with seuen and thirty persons they set saile in the beginning of Iuly but being crossed by westernly winds it was the end of August ere they could passe Plimoth and arriued in

well much more him that was sicke women rubbing him to keepe heat in him but their charmes ended vnderstanding of vs though he had lost his sight his vnderstanding failed not but taking Winslow by the hand said Art thou Winslow Oh Winslow I shall neuer see thee againe Hobamock telling him what restauratiues they had brought he desired to taste them with much adoe they got a little Confexion of many comfortable Conserues into his mouth as it desolued he swallowed it then desoluing more of it in water they scraped his tongue which was al furred swolne and washed his mouth and then gaue him more of it to eat and in his drinke that wrought such an alteration in him in two or three houres his eies opened to our great contents with this and such brothes as they there prouided for him it pleased God he recouered and thus the manner of his sicknesse and cure caused no small admiration amongst them During the time of their stay to see his recouery they had sent to New Plimoth for diuers good things for him which he tooke so kindly that he fully reuealed all the former conspiracies against vs to which he had oft beene moued and how that all the people of Powmet Nawset Succonet Mattachist Manamet Augawam and Capawac were ioyned to murder vs therefore as we respected our liues kill them of Massachuset that were the authors for take away the principals and the plot wil cease thus taking our leaues arriuing at our fort we found our braue liberall friend of Pamet drawing Standish to their Ambuscados which being thus discouered we sent him away as though he knew not suspected any thing Them at the Massachusets some were so vilde they serued the Saluages for victuall the rest sent vs word the Saluages were so insolent they would assault them though against their Commission so fearefull they were to breake their Commission so much time was spent in consultations they all were famished till Wassapinewat againe came and told them the day of their execution was at hand Then they appointed Standish with eight chosen men vnder colour of Trade to catch them in their owne trap at Massachuset acquaint it with the English in the Towne where arriuing he found none in the Barke and most of the rest without Armes or scarce clothes wandering abroad all so sencelesly secure he more then wondered they were not all slaine with much adoe he got the most of them to their Towne The Saluages suspecting their plots discouered Pecksnot a great man and of as great a spirit came to Habamak who was then amongst them saying Tell Standish we know he is come to kill vs but let him begin when he dare Not long after many would come to the Fort and whet their Kniues before him with many brauing speeches One amongst the rest was by Wittawamat bragging he had a Knife that on the handle had the picture of a womans face but at home I haue one hath killed both French English and that hath a mans face on it and by and by these two must marrie but this here by and by shall see and by and by eat but not speake Also Pecksnot being of a greater stature then the Captaine told him though he were a great Captaine he was but a little man and I though no Sachem yet I am of great strength and courage These things Standish bare patiently for the present but the next day seeing he could not get many of them together but these two Roarers and two more being in a conuenient roome and his company about him Standish feased on Pecksnots Knife then hanging about his necke wherewith he slew him and the rest slew Wittuwamat and the other Saluage but the youth they tooke who being Brother to Wittuwamat and as villanous as himselfe was hanged It is incredible how many wounds they indured catching at their weapons without any feare or bruit till the last gasp Habamack stood by all this time very silent but all ended he said Yesterday Pecksnot bragged of his strength and stature but I see you are big enough to lay him on the ground The Towne he left to the guard of Westons people three Saluages more were slaine vpon which rumour they all fled from their houses The next day they met with a file of Saluages that let fly their Arrowes shot for shot till Hobamack shewed himselfe and then they fled For all this a Saluage Boy to shew his innocency came boldly vnto vs and told vs Had the English Fugitiues but finished the three Canowes they were a making to haue taken the ship they would haue done as much to all the English which was onely the cause they had forborne so long But now consulting and considering their estates those that went in the Pinnace to Barty Iles to get passage for England the rest to New Plimoth where they were kindly entertained The Sachem Obtak●est Powas and diuers other were guilty the three fugitiues in their fury there slew but not long after so distracted were those poore scattered people they left their habitations liuing in swamps where wi●h cold and infinite diseases they endured much mortalitie suing for peace and crying the God of England is angry with them Thus you see where God pleases as some flourish others perish Now on all hands they prepare their ground and about the middest of Aprill in a faire season they begin to plant till the latter end of May but to God pleased that in six weekes after the latter setting there scarce fell any raine so that the stalke was first set began to care ere it came to halfe growth and the last not like to yeeld any thing at all Our Beanes also seemed so withered we iudged all vtterly dead that now all our hopes were ouerthrowne and our ioy turned into mourning And more to our sorrow we heard of the twice returne of the Paragon that now the third time was sent vs three moneths agoe but no newes of her onely the signes of a wracke we saw on the Coast which wee iudged her This caused not euery of vs to enter into a priuate consideration betwixt God and our consciences but most solemnly to humble our selues before the Lord by fasting and praying to releeue our deiected spirits by the comforts of his mercy In the morning when wee assembled all together the skies were as cleere and the drought as like to continue as euer yet our exercise continued eight or nine houres Before our departure the skies were all ouer-cast and on the next morning distilled such soft sweet moderate showers continuing foureteene daies mixed with such seasonable weather as it was hard to say whether our withered Corne or drooping affections were most quickned and reuiued such was the bounty and mercy of God Of this the Indians by the meanes of Hobamock tooke notice who seeing vs vse this exercise in the midst of the