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A11056	A true relation of the most prosperous voyage made this present yeere 1605, by Captaine George Waymouth, in the discouery of the land of Virginia where he discouered 60 miles vp a most excellent riuer; together with a most fertile land. Written by Iames Rosier. a gentleman employed in the voyage.	Rosier, James, 1575-1635.	1605 (1605)	STC 21322; ESTC S101216	25,801	39

A TRVE RELATION of the most prosperous voyage made this present yeere 1605 by Captaine George Waymouth in the Discouery of the land of Virginia Where he discouered 60 miles vp a most excellent Riuer together with a most fertile land Written by IAMES ROSIER a Gentleman employed in the voyage LONDINI Impensis GEOR. BISHOP 1605. TO THE READER BEing employed in this Voyage by the right honourable Thomas Arundell Baron of Warder to take due notice and make true report of the discouery therein performed I became very diligent to obserue as much as I could whatsoeuer was materiall or of consequence in the businesse which I collected into this briefe summe intending vpon our returne to publish the same But he soone changed the course of his intendments and long before our arriuall in England had so farre engaged himselfe with the Archduke that he was constrained to relinquish this action But the commodities and profits of the countrey together with the fitnesse of plantation being by some honourable Gentlemen of good woorth and qualitie and Merchants of good sufficiency and iudgement duly considered haue at their owne charge intending both their priuate and the common benefit of their countrey vndertaken the transporting of a Colony for the plantation thereof being much encouraged thereunto by the gracious fauour of the KINGS MAIESTY himselfe and diuers Lords of his Highnesse most Honourable Priuie Councell After these purposed designes were concluded I was animated to publish this briefe Relation and not before because some forrein Nation being fully assured of the fruitfulnesse of the countrie haue hoped hereby to gaine some knowledge of the place seeing they could not allure our Captaine or any speciall man of our Company to combine with them for their direction nor obtaine their purpose in conueying away our Saluages which was busily in practise And this is the cause that I haue neither written of the latitude or variation most exactly obserued by our Captaine with sundrie instruments which together with his perfect Geographicall Map of the countrey he entendeth hereafter to set forth I haue likewise purposedly omitted here to adde a collection of many words in their language to the number of foure or fiue hundred as also the names of diuers of their gouernours aswell their friends as their enemies being reserued to be made knowen for the benefit of those that shal goe in the next Voyage But our particular proceedings in the whole Discouerie the commodious situation of the Riuer the fertilitie of the land with the profits there to be had and here reported I refer to be verified by the whole Company as being eye-witnesses of my words and most of them neere inhabitants vpon the Thames So with my prayers to God for the conuersion of so ingenious and well disposed people and for the prosperous successiue euents of the noble intenders the prosecution thereof I rest Your friend I. R. A TRVE RELATION of Captaine George Waymouth his Voyage made this present yeere 1605 in the Discouerie of the North part of Virginia VPon Tuesday the 5 day of March about ten a clocke afore noone we set saile from Ratcliffe and came to an anker that tide about two a clocke before Grauesend From thence the 10 of March being Sunday at night we ankered in the Downes and there rode til the next day about thrée a clocke after noone when with a scant winde we set saile and by reason the winde continued Southwardly we were beaten vp and downe but on Saturday the 16 day about foure a clocke after noon we put into Dartmouth Hauen where the continuance of the winde at South Southwest constrained vs to ride till the last of this moneth There we shipped some of our men and supplied necessaries for our Ship and Uoyage Upon Easter day being the last of March Vpon Easter day we put to sea the winde comming at North-North-East about fiue a clocke after noone we wayed anker and put to sea In the name of God being well victualled and furnished with munition and all necessaries Our Companie 29 persons Our whole Company being but 29 persons of whom I may boldly say few voyages haue béene manned forth with better Sea-men generally in respect of our small number Munday the next day being the first of Aprill by sixe a clocke in the morning we were sixe leagues South-South-East from the Lizarde At two a clocke in the afternoone this day the weather being very faire our Captaine for his owne experience and others with him sounded Sounding and had sixe and fiftie fathoms and a halfe The sounding was some small blacke perrie sand some reddish sand a match or two with small shels called Saint Iames his Shels The foureteenth of Aprill being Sunday betwéene nine and ten of the clocke in the morning our Captaine descried the Iland Cueruo which bare South-West and by West about seuen leagues from vs by eleuen of the clocke we descried Flores to the Southward of Cueruo We fell with the Ilands of Azores as it lieth by foure a clocke in the afternoone we brought Cueruo due South from vs within two leagues of the shore but we touched not because the winde was faire and we thought our selues sufficiently watered and wooded Héere our Captaine obserued the Sunne and found himselfe in the latitude of 40 degrees and 7 minutes so he iudged the North part of Cueruo to be in 40 degrees After we had kept our course about a hundred leagues from the Ilands by continuall Southerly windes we were forced and driuen from the Southward whither we first intended And when our Captaine by long beating saw it was but in vaine to striue with windes not knowing Gods purposes héerein to our further blessing which after by his especiall direction wée found he thought best to stand as nigh as he could by the winde to recouer what land we might first discouer Munday the 6 of May being in the latitude of 39 and a halfe about ten a clocke afore noone we came to a riplin which we discerned a head our ship which is a breach of water caused either by a fall or by some meeting of currents which we iudged this to be for the weather being very faire and a small gale of winde we sounded and found no ground in a hundred fathoms Munday the 13 of May about eleuen a clocke afore noone our Captaine iudging we were not farre from land sounded and had a soft oaze in a hundred and sixty fathomes At fowre a clocke after noone we sounded againe and had the same oaze in a hundred fathoms From 10 a clocke that night till thrée a clocke in the morning our Captaine tooke in all sailes and lay at hull being desirous to fall with the land in the day time because it was an vnknowen coast which it pleased God in his mercy to grant vs otherwise we had run our ship vpon the hidden rockes and perished all For when we set saile we

sounded in 100 fathoms and by eight a clock hauing not made aboue fiue or six leagues our Captaine vpon a sudden change of water supposing verily he saw the sand presently sounded and had but fiue fathoms Much maruelling because we saw no land he sent one to the top who thence descried a whitish sandy cliffe which bare West-North-West about six leagues off from vs but comming néerer within thrée or fowre leagues we saw many breaches still néerer the land at last we espied a great breach a head vs al along the shore into which before we should enter our Captaine thought best to hoise out his ship boate and sound it Which if he had not done we had béene in great danger for he bare vp the ship as néere as he durst after the boate vntill Thomas Cam his mate being in the boat called to him to tacke about stand off for in this breach he had very showld water two fathoms and lesse vpon rockes and sometime they supposed they saw the rocke within thrée or fowre foote whereon the sea made a very strong breach which we might discerne from the top to run along as we sailed by it 6 or 7 leagues to the Southward This was in the latitude of 41 degrées 20 minuts wherefore we were constrained to put backe againe from the land and sounding the weather being very faire and a small winde we found our selues embaied with continuall showldes and rockes in a most vncertaine ground from fiue or sixe fathoms at the next cast of the lead we should haue 15 18 fathoms Ouer many which we passed and God so blessed vs that we had wind and weather as faire as poore men in this distresse could wish whereby we both perfectly discerned euery breach and with the winde were able to turne where we saw most hope of safest passage Thus we parted from the land which we had not so much before desired and at the first sight reioiced as now we all ioifully praised God that it had pleased him to deliuer vs from so imminent danger Héere we found great store of excellent Cod fish and saw many Whales as we had done two or three daies before We stood off all that night and the next day being Wednesday but the wind still continuing betwéen the points of South South-West and West-South-West so as we could not make any way to the Southward in regard of our great want of water and wood which was now spent we much desired land and therefore sought for it where the wind would best suffer vs to refresh our selues Thursday the 16 of May we stood in directly with the land and much maruelled we descried it not wherein we found our sea charts very false putting land where none is Friday the 17 of May about sixe a clocke at night we descried the land which bare from vs North-North-East but because it blew a great gale of winde the sea very high and néere night not fit to come vpon an vnknowen coast we stood off till two a clocke in the morning being Saturday then standing in with it againe we descried it by eight a clocke in the morning bearing North-East from vs. The description of the Iland It appeared a meane high land as we after found it being but an Iland of some six miles in compasse but I hope the most fortunate euer yet discouered About twelue a clocke that day we came to an anker on the North side of this Iland about a league from the shore About two a clocke our Captaine with twelue men rowed in his ship-boat to the shore where we made no long stay but laded our boat with dry wood of olde trées vpon the shore side and returned to our ship where we rode that night This Iland is woody growen with Firre Birch Oke and Béech as farre as we saw along the shore and so likely to be within On the verge grow Gooseberries Strawberries Wild pease and Wild-rose bushes The water issued foorth downe the Rocky cliffes in many places and much fowle of diuers kinds bréed vpon the shore and rocks While we were at shore our men aboord with a few hooks got aboue thirty great Cods and Hadocks which gaue vs a taste of the great plenty of fish which we found afterward wheresoeuer we went vpon the coast From hence we might discerne the maine land from the West-South-West to the East-North-East and a great way as it then séemed and as we after found it vp into the maine we might discerne very high mountaines though the maine séemed but low land which gaue vs a hope it would please God to direct vs to the discouerie of some good although wée were driuen by winds farre from that place whither both by our direction and desire we euer intended to shape the course of our voyage The next day being Whit-Sunday because we rode too much open to the sea and windes we weyed anker about twelue a clocke and came along to the other Ilands more adioyning to the maine and in the rode directly with the mountaines about thrée leagues from the first Iland where we had ankered When we came néere vnto them sounding all along in a good depth our Captaine manned his ship-boat and sent her before with Thomas Cam one of his Mates whom he knew to be of good experience to sound search betweene the Ilands for a place safe for our shippe to ride in in the meane while we kept aloofe at sea hauing giuen them in the boat a token to weffe in the ship if he found a conuenient Harbour which it pleased God to send vs farre beyond our expectation in a most safe birth defended from all windes in an excellent depth of water for ships of any burthen in six seuen eight nine and ten fathoms vpon a clay oaze very tough We all with great ioy praised God for his vnspeakable goodnesse who had from so apparent danger deliuered vs directed vs vpon this day into so secure an Harbour in remembrance wherof we named it Pentecost-harbor Whitsund●y we arriuing there that day out of our last Harbor in England from whence we set saile vpon Easterday About foure a clocke after we were ankered and well mored our Captaine with halfe a dozen of our Company went on shore to séeke fresh watering and a conuenient place to set together a pinnesse which we brought in pieces out of England both which we found very fitting Upon this Iland as also vpon the former we found at our first comming to shore where fire had béene made and about the place were very great egge shelles bigger than goose egges fish bones and as we iudged the bones of some beast Héere we espied Cranes stalking on the shore of a little Iland adioyning Cranes where we after saw they vsed to bréed Whitsun-munday the 20 day of May very early in the morning our Captaine caused the pieces of the pinnesse to be carried a shore where while