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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04690	A discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Ile of Diuels by Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Sommers, and Captayne Newport, with diuers others. Set forth for the loue of my country, and also for the good of the plantation in Virginia. Sil. Iourdan.	Jourdain, Silvester, d. 1650.	1610 (1610)	STC 14816; ESTC S109240	6,473	28

A DISCOVERY OF THE BARMVDAS OTHERWISE called the I le of DIVELS By Sir THOMAS GATES Sir GEORGE SOMMERS and Captayne NEWPORT with diuers others Set forth for the loue of my Country and also for the good of the Plantation in Virginia SIL. IOVRDAN LONDON Printed by Iohn Windet and are to be sold by Roger Barnes in S. Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleet-streete vnder the Diall 1610. TO THE RIGHT WORshipfull Master IOHN FITZIAMES Esquire one of his MAiesties chiefe Iustices of Peace within the Countie of DORSET SIR Amongst all the sinnes that humane nature doth stand possest with ingratitude doth challenge a propertie in man although it bee a thing repugnant to reason and disagreeing with all mutuall focietie To free myselfe from this vitium naturae I am bold in these fewe lines to dedicate my loue to you for it were too tedious to vse many wordes where good wil is the bond of loue This smal gift I would intreate you to accept if not for the quantitie yet for the qualitie From London the thirteenth of October 1610. Your Worships to commannd SIL. IOVRDAN A DISCOVERY OF THE BARMVDAS OTHER VVISE called the I le of Diuels I Being in ship called the sea-venture with Sir THOMAS Gates our Gouernour Sir GEORGE Sommers and Captaine Newport three most worthy honoured Gentlemen whose valour and fortitude the world must needes take notice off and that in most Honourable designes bound for Virginia in the height of thirty degrees of northerly latitude or thereabouts we were taken with a most sharpe and cruell storme vpon the fiue and twentieth day of Iuly Anno 1609. which did not only separate vs from the residue of our fleete which were eight in number but with the violent working of the Seas our ship became so shaken torne and leaked that shee receiued so much water as couered two ●ire of hogsheads aboue the ballast that our men stoode vp to the middles with buckets baricos and kettles to baile out the water and continually pumped for three dayes and three nights together without any intermission and yet the water seemed rather to increase then to diminish in so much that all our men being vtterly spent tyred and disabled for longer labour were euen resolued without any hope of their liues to shut vp the hatches and to haue committed themselues to the mercy of the sea which is said to be mercilesse or rather to the mercy of their mighty God and redeemer whose mercies exceed all his works seeing no helpe nor hope in the apprehension of mans reason that any mothers child could escape that ineuitable danger which euery man had proposed and digested to himselfe of present sinking So that some of them hauing some good and comfortable waters in the ship fetcht them and drunke one to the other taking their last leaue one of the other vntill their more ioyfull and happy meeting in a more blessed world when it pleased God out of his most gracious and mercifull prouidence so to direct and guide our ship being left to the mercy of the sea for her most aduantage that Sir George Sommers sitting vpon the poope of the ship where he sate three dayes and three nights together without meales meate and little or no sleepe couning the shippe to keepe her as vpright as he could for otherwise shee must needes instantly haue foundred most wishedly happily discryed land whereupon he most comfortably encouraged the company to follow their pumping and by no meanes to cease bayling out of the water with their buckets baricos and kettles whereby they were so ouer wearied and their spirits so spent with long fasting and continuance of their labour that for the most part they were fallen asleepe in corners and wheresoeuer they chanced first to sit or lie but hearing news of land wherewith they grew to bee somewhat reuiued being carried with wil and desire beyond their strength euery man busled vp and gathered his strength and feeble spirits together to performe as much as their weake force would permit him through which weake meanes it pleased God to worke so strongly as the water was staide for that little time which as we all much feared was the last period of our breathing and the ship kept from present sinking when it pleased God to send her within halfe an English mile of that land that Sir George Sommers had not long before discryed Which were the Ilandes of the Barmudas And there neither did our ship sincke but more fortunately in so great a misfortune fell in betweene two rockes where shee was fast lodged and locked for further budging whereby we gayned not only sufficient time with the present helpe of our boate and skiffe safely to set and conuey our men ashore which were one hundred and fifty in number but afterwards had time and leasure to saue some good part of our goodes and prouision which the water had not spoyled with all the tackling of the ship and much of the yron about her which were necessaries not a litle auaileable for the building and furnishing of a new ship and pinnis which we made there for the transporting and carrying of vs to Virginia But our deliuery was not more strange in falling so opportunely and happily vpon the land as our feeding and preseruation was beyond our hopes and all mens expectations most admirable For the Ilands of the Barmudas as euery man knoweth that hath heard or read of them were neuer inhabited by any Christian or Heathen people but euer esteemed and reputed a most prodigious and inchanted place affoording nothing but gusts stormes and foule weather which made euery Nauigator and Mariner to auoide thē as Scylla and Charibdis or as they would shunne the Deuill himselfe and no man was euer heard to make for the place but as against their wils they haue by stormes and dangerousnesse of the rocks lying seauen leagues into the Sea suffered shipwracke yet did we finde there the ayre so temperate and the Country so aboundantly fruitful of all fit necessaries for the sustentation and preseruation of mans life that most in a manner of all our prouisions of bread beare and victuall being quite spoyled in lying long drowned in salt water notwithstanding we were there for the space of nine moneths few dayes ouer or vnder not only well refreshed comforted and with good satiety contented but out of the aboundance thereof prouided vs some reasonable quantity and proportion of prouision to carry vs for Virginia and to maintaine our selues and that company wee ●ound there to the great releefe of them as it fell out in their so great extremities and in respect of the shortnesse of time vntill it pleased God that by my Lords comming thither their store was better supplyed And greater and better prouisions wee might haue made if we had had better meanes for the storing and transportation thereof Wherefore my opinion sincerely of this Iland is that whereas it hath beene and is still accounted the most