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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

this last yeare was there at least two or th●ee and twenty saile They have oft much salt fi●h from New England but fresh fish enough when they will take it Peaches in abundance at Kecoughtan Apples Peares Apricocks Vines figges and other fruits some have planted that prosper●d ●xceedin●ly but their diligence about Tobacco left them to be spoiled by the c●ttell yet now they beginne to revive Mistresse Pearce an honest indus●rious woman hath beene there neere twentie yeares and now returned sait● shee hath a Garden at Iames towne containing three ●r s●me a●●e● where in one yeare shee hath gathered neere an hundred b●shels of ●x●ellent figges and that of her owne provision she can keepe a b●tter house in Virginia than here in London for 3. or 400. pounds a yeare yet went thither with little or nothing They have some tame geese ducks and turkies The masters now do so traine up their servants and youth in shooting deere and fowle that the youths will kill them as well as their Mast●●s They have two brew-houses but they finde the Indian corne so much better than ours they beginne to leave sow●●g it Their Cities and Townes are onely scattered houses they call plantations as are our Country Villages but no Ordnance mounted The Forts Captaine Smith left a building so ruined there is scarce mention where they were no discoveries of any thing more than the curing of Tobacco by which hitherto being so present a commodity of gaine it hath brought them to this abundance but that they are so disjoynted and every one commander of himselfe to plant what he will they are now so well provided that they are able to subsist and if they would joyne together now to worke upon Sope-ashes Iron R●pe-oile Mader Pitch and Tarre Flax and Hempe as for their Tobacco there comes from many places such abundance and the charge so great it is not worth the bringing home There is gone and now a going divers Ships as Captaine Perse Captaine Prine with Sir Iohn Harvy to be their governour with two or three hundred people there is also some Bristow and other parts of the West Country a preparing which I heartily pray to God to blesse and send them a happy and prosperous voyage Nathaniel Causie Master Hutchins Master Floud Iohn Davis William Emerson Master William Barnet Master Cooper and others CHAP. XXII The proceedings and present estate of the Summer Iles from An. Dom. 1624 to this present 1629. FRom the Summer Iles Master Ireland and divers others report their Forts O●dnance and proceedings are much as they were in the yeare 1622. as you may read in the generall History page 199. Captaine Woodhouse governour There are few sorts of any fruits in the West Indies but they grow there in abundance yet the fertility of the soile in many places decayeth being planted every yeare for their Plantaines which is a most delicate fruit they have lately found a way by pickling or drying them to bring them over into England there beinq no such fruit in Europe wonderfull for increase For fish flesh figs wine and all sorts of most excellent hearbs fruits and rootes they have in abundance In this Governours time a kinde of Whale or rather a Iubarta was driven on shore in Southampton tr●be from the west over an infinite number of rocks so bruised that the water in the Bay where she lay was all oily and the rocks about it all bedasht with Parmacitty congealed like ice a good quantity we gathered with which we commonly cured any byle hurt or bruise some burnt it in their lamps which blowing out the very snuffe will burne so long as there is any of the oile remaining for two or three dayes together The next Governour was Captaine Philip Bell whose time being expired Captaine Roger Wodd possessed his place a worthy Gentleman of good desert and hath lived a long time in the Country their numbers are about two or three thousand men women and children who increase there exceedingly their greatest complaint is want of apparell and too much custome and too many officers the pity is there are more men than women yet no great mischiefe because there is so much lesse pride the cattell they have increase exceedingly their forts are well maintained by the Merchants here and Planters there to be briefe this I le is an excellent bit to rule great horse All the Cohow birds and Egbirds are gone seldome any wilde cats seene no Rats to speake of but the wormes are yet very troublesome the people very healthfull and the Ravens gone fish enough but not so neere the shore as it used by the much beating it it is an I le that hath such a rampire and a ditch and for the quantity so manned victualled and fortified as few in the world doe exceed it or is like it The 22. of March two ships came from thence the Peter-Bonaventure neere two hundred tunnes and sixteene peeces of Ordnance the Captaine Thomas Sherwin The Master Master Edward Some like him in condition a goodly lusty proper valiant man the Lydia wherein was Master Anthony Thorne a smaller ship were chased by eleuen ships of Dunkerk being thus overmatched Captaine Sherwin was taken by them in Turbay only his valiant Master was slaine the ship with about seventy English men they carried betwixt Dover and Callis to Dunk●rk but the Lydia safely recovered Dartmouth These noble adventurers for all those losses patiently doe beare them but they hope the King and state will understand it is worth keeping though it afford nothing but Tobacco and that now worth little or nothing custome and fraught payed yet it is worth keeping and not supplanting though great men feele not those losses yet Gardiners Carpenters and Smiths doe pay for it From the relation of Robert Chesteven and others Chap. XXIII The proceedings and present estate of New England Since 1614. to this present 1629. WHen I went first to the North part of Virginia where the Westerly Colony had beene planted it had dissolved it selfe within a yeare and there was not one Christian in all the land I was set forth at the sole charge of foure Merchants of London the Country being then reputed by your westerlings a most rockie barren desolate desart but the good returne I brought from thence with the maps and relations I made of the Country which I made so manifest some of them did beleeve me and they were well embraced both by the Londoners and Westerlings for whom I had promised to undertake it thinking to have joyned them all together but that might well have become a worke for Hercules Betwixt them long there was much contention the Londoners indeed went bravely forward but in three or foure yeares I and my friends consumed many hundred pounds amongst the Plimothians who only sed me but with delayes promises and excuses but no performance of any thing to any purpose In the interim many particular ships

the information of three or foure Christians escaped out of the Towne upon every Alarum where there was greatest assemblies and throng of people caused Captaine Smith to put in practice his fiery Dragons hee had demonstrated unto him and the Earle Von Sulch at Comora which hee thus performed Having prepared fortie or fiftie round-bellied earthen pots and filled them with hand Gunpowder then covered them with Pitch mingled with Brimstone and Turpentine and quartering as many Musket-bullets that hung together but only at the Center of the division stucke them round in the mixture about the pots and covered them againe with the same mixture over that a strong Searcloth then over all a good thicknesse of Towze-match well tempered with oyle of Lin-seed Campheer and powder of Brimstone these he fitly placed in Slings graduated so neere as they could to the places of these Assemblies At midnight upon the Alarum it was a fearfull sight to see the short flaming course of their flight in the aire but presently after their fall the lamentable noise of the miserable slaughtered Turkes was most wonderfull to heare Besides they had fired that Suburbe at the Port of Buda in two or three places which so troubled the Turkes to quench that had there beene any meanes to have assaulted them they could hardly have resisted the fire and their enemies The Earle Rosworme contrary to the opinion of all men would needs undertake to finde meanes to surprize the Segeth and Suburbe of the Citie strongly defended by a muddie Lake which was thought unpassable The Duke having planted his Ordnance battered the other side whilest Rosworme in the darke night with every man a bundle of sedge and bavins still throwne before them so laded up the Lake as they surprized that unregarded Suburbe before they were discovered upon which unexpected Alarum the Turkes fled into the Citie and the other Suburbe not knowing the matter got into the Citie also leaving their Suburbe for the Duke who with no great resistance tooke it with many peeces of Ordnance the Citie being of no such strength as the Suburbs with their owne Ordnance was so battered that it was taken perforce with such a mercilesse execution as was most pitifull to behold The Bashaw notwithstanding drew together a partie of five hundred before his owne Pallace where he intended to die but seeing most of his men slaine before him by the valiant Captaine Earle Meldritch who tooke him prisoner with his owne hands and with the hazard of himselfe saved him from the fury of other troopes that did pull downe his Pallace and would have rent him in peeces had he not beene thus preserved The Duke thought his victory much honoured with such a Prisoner tooke order hee should bee used like a Prince and with all expedition gave charge presently to repaire the breaches and the ruines of this famous Citie that had beene in the possession of the Turkes neere threescore yeares CHAP. VI. A brave encounter of the Turkes Armie with the Christians Duke Mercury overthroweth Assan Bashaw Hee divides the Christian Armie His noblenesse and death MAHOMET the great Turke during the siege had raised an Armie of sixtie thousand men to have releeved it but hearing it was lost he sent Assan Bashaw Generall of his Armie the Bashaw of Buda Bashaw Amaro● to see if it were possible to regaine it The Duke understanding there could be no great experience in such a new levied Armie as Assan had having put a strong Garrison into it and with the brave Colonell Rosworme Culnits Meldritch the Rhine-Grave Vahan and many others with twenty thousand good souldiers set forward to meet the Turke in the Plaines of Girke Those two Armies encountred as they marehed where began a hot and bloudy Skirmish betwixt them Regiment against Regiment as they came in order till the night parted them Here Earle Meldritch was so invironed amongst those halfe circuler Regiments of Turkes they supposed him their Prisoner and his Regiment lost but his two most couragious friends Vihan and Culnits made such a passage amongst them that it was a terror to see how horse and man lay sprawling and tumbling some one way some another on the ground The Earle there at that time made his valo● shine more bright than his armour which seemed then painted with Turkish bloud he slew the brave Zanzack Bugola and made his passage to his friends but neere halfe his Regiment was slaine Captain Smith had his horse sl●●e under him and himselfe sore wounded but he was not long unmounted for there was choice enough of horses that wanted masters The Turke thinking the victory sure against the Duke whose Armie by the Siege and the Garrison he had left behind him was much weakned would not be content with one but he would have all and left the Duke should returne to Alba Regalis he sent that night twenty thousand to besiege the Citie assuring them he would keepe the Duke or any other from releeving them Two or three dayes they lay each by other entrenching themselves the Turkes daring the Duke daily to a sett battell who at length drew out his Army led by the Rhine-Grave Culnits and Meldritch who upon their first encounter charged with that resolute and valiant courage as disordered not only the formost squadrons of the Turkes but enforced all the whole Armie to retire to the Campe with the losse of five or six thousand with the Bashaw of Buda and foure or five Zanzacks with divers other great Commanders two hundred Prisoners and nine pecces of Ordnance At that instant appeared as it were another Armie comming out of a valley over a plaine hill that caused the Duke at that time to be contented and to retire to his Trenches which gave time to Assan to reorder his disordered squadrons Here they lay nine or ten dayes and more supplies repaired to them expecting to try the event in a sett battell but the souldiers on both parties by reason of their great wants and approach of winter grew so discontented that they were ready of themselves to breake up the Leager the Bashaw retiring himselfe to Buda had some of the Reare Troopes cut off Amaroz Bashaw hearing of this found such bad welcome at Alba Regalis and the Towne so strongly repaired with so brave a Garrison raised his siege and retired to Zigetum The Duke understanding that the Arch-duke Ferdinando had so resolutely besieged Caniza as what by the losse of Alba Regalis and the Turks retreat to Buda being void of hope of any reliefe doubted not but it would become againe the Christians To the furtherance whereof the Duke divided his Armie into three parts The Earle of Rosworme went with seven thousand to Caniza the Earle of Meldritch with six thousand he sent to assist Georgio Busca against the Transilvanians the rest went with himselfe to the Garrisons of Strigonium and Komara having thus worthily behaved himselfe he

and others in a pinuace of thirtie tun to discover further which they did some two hundred leagues where they found the River to divide it selfe in two parts till then all full of Ilands and a Countrey most healthfull pleasant and fruitfull for they found food enough and all returned safe in good health In this discoverie they saw many Townes well inhabited some with three hundred people some with five six or seven hundred and of some they understood to be of so many thousands most differing verie much especially in their languages whereof they suppose by those Indians they understand are many hundreds more unfrequented till then by any Christian most of them starke naked both men women and children but they saw not any such giant-like women as the Rivers name importeth But for those where Captaine North hath feated his company it is not knowen where Indians were ever so kinde to any Nation not sparing any paines danger or labour to feed and maintaine them The English following their buildings fortifications and sugar-workes for which they have sent most expert men and with them all things necessarie for that purpose to effect which they want not the helpe of those kinde Indians to produce and many other good commodities which God willing will ere long make plaine and apparent to this Kingdome and all the Adventurers and Well-willers to this Plantation to bee well worthy the cherishing and following with all alacritie CHAP. XXV The beginning and proceedings of the new plantation of St. Christopher by Captaine Warner MAster Ralfe Merifield and others having furnished this worhty industrious Gentleman hee arrived at St. Christophers as is said with fifteene men the 28. of Ianuarie 1623. viz. William Tested Iohn Rhodes Robert Bims Mr. Benifield Sergeant Iones Mr. Ware William Royle Rowland Grascocke Mr. Bond Mr. Langley Mr. Weaver Edward Warner their Captaines sonne and now Deputy-Governour till his fathers returne Sergeant Aplon one Sailor and a Cooke At their arrivall they found three French-men who sought to oppose Captaine Warner and to set the Indians upon us but at last we all became friends and lived with the Indians a moneth then we built a Fort and a house and planting fruits by September we made a crop of Tobacco but upon the nineteenth of September came a Hericano and blew it away all this while wee lived upon Cassada bread Potatoes Plantines Pines Turtels Guanes and fish plentie for drinke wee h●d Nicnobbie The 18. of March 1624. arrived Captaine Iefferson with three men passengers in the Hope-well of London with some trade for the Indians and then we had another crop of Tobacco in the meane time the French had planted thems●lves in the other end of the I le with this crop Captaine Warner returned for England in September 1625. In his absence came in a French pinnace under the command of Monsieur de Nombe that told us the Indians had slaine some Frenchmen in other of the Charybes Iles and that there were six Peryagoes which are huge great trees formed as your Canowes but so laid out on the sides with boords they will seeme like a little Gally six of those with about soure or five hundred strange Indians came unto us we bade them be gone but they would not whereupon we and the French joyned together and upon the fifth of November set upon them and put them to flight upon New-yeares Even they came againe found three English going about the I le whom they slue Vntill the fourth of August we stood upon our guard living upon the spoile and did nothing But now Captaine Warner arriving againe with neere an hundred people then we fell to worke and planting as before but upon the fourth of September came such a Hericano as blew downe all our houses Tobacco and two Drums into the aire we know not whither drove two ships on shore that were both split all our provision thus lost we were very miserable living onely on what we could get in the wilde woods we made a small party of French and English to goe aboord for provision but in their returning home eight French men were slaine in the harbour Thus wee continued till neere Iune that the Tortels came in 1627. but the French being like to starve sought to surprize us and all the Cassado Potatos and Tobacco we had planted but we did prevent them The 26. of October came in Captaine William Smith in the Hope-well with some Ordnance shot and powder from the Earle of Carlile with Captaine Pelham and thirty men about that time also came the Plow also a small ship of Bristow with Captaine Warners wife and six or seven women more Vpon the 25. of November the Indians set upon the French for some injury about their women and slew six and twentie French men five English and three Indians Their weapons are bowes and arrowes their bowes are never bent but the string lies flat to the bow their arrowes a small reed foure or five foot long headed some with the poysoned sting of the taile of a Stingray some with iron some with wood but all so poysoned that if they draw but bloud the hurt is incurable The next day came in Captaine Charles Saltonstall a young Gentleman son of Sir Samuell Saltonstall who brought with him good store of all commodities to releeve the plantation but by reason some Hollanders and others had bin there lately before him who carried away with them all the Tobacco he was forced to put away all his commodities upon trust till the next crop in the meane time hee resolved there to stay and imploy himselfe his company in planting Tobacco hoping thereby to make a voyage but before he cou●d be ready to returne for England a Hericano h●pu●●g his ship was split to his great losse being sol● Merc●ant and owner himselfe notwithstand●ng forced to pay to the Governour the fi lt part of his Tobacco and for fraught to England three pence a pound and nine pence a pound custome wh●ch amounts together to more than thre●score pound in the hundred pound to the great d●scouragement of him and many others that intended well to those plantations Neverthelesse he is gone againe this present yeare 1629. with a ship of about three hundred tunnes and very neere two hundred people with Sir William Tuffton Govenour for the Barbados and divers gentlemen and all manner of commodities fit for a plantation Captaine Prinne Captaine Stone and divers others came in about Christmas so that this last yeare there hath beene about thirtie saile of English French and Dutch ships and all the Indians forced out of the I le for they had done much mischiefe amongst the French in cutting their throats burning their houses and spoyling their Tobacco amongst the rest Tegramund a little childe the Kings sonne his parents being slaine or fled was by great chance saved and carefully brought to

England by Master Merifield who brought him from thence and bringeth him up as his owne children It lyeth seventeene degrees Northward of the line about an hundred and twenty leagues from the Cape de tres Puntas the neerest maine land in America it is about eight leagues in length and foure in bredth an Iland amongst 100. Iles in the West Indies called the Caribes where ordinarily all them that frequent the West Indies refresh themselves those most of them are rocky little and mountainous yet frequented with the Canibals many of them inhabited as Saint Domingo Saint Mattalin Saint Lucia Saint Vincent Granada and Margarita to the Southward Northward none but Saint Christophers and it but lat●ly yet they will be ranging Marigalanta Guardalupo Deceado Monserat Antigua Mevis Bernardo Saint Martin and Saint Bartholomew but the worst of the foure Iles possessed by the Spanyard as Portorico or Iamica is better than them all as for Hispaniola and Cuba they are worthy the title of two rich Kingdomes the rest not respected by the Spanyards for want of harbors and their better choice of good land and profit in the maine But Captaine Warner having beene very familiar with Captaine Painton in the Amazon hearing his information of this St. Christophers and having made a yeares tryall as it is said returned for England ioyning with Master Merifield and his friends got Letters Pattents from King Iames to plant and possesse it Since then the Right Honourable the Earle of Carlile hath got Letters Pattents also not only of that but all the Caribes Iles about it who is now chiefe Lord of them and the English his tenants that doe possesse them over whom he appointeth such Governours and Officers as their affaires require and although there be a great custome imposed upon them considering their other charges both to feed and maintaine themselves yet there is there and now a going neere upon the number of three thousand people where by reason of the rockinesse and thicknesse of the woods in the I le it is difficult to passe and such a snuffe of the Sea goeth on the shore ten m●y better defend than fifty assault In this I le are many springs but yet water is scarce againe in many places the valleyes and sides of the hills very fertile but the mountaines harsh and of a sulphurous composition all overgrowne with Palmetas Cotten trees Lignum vitae and divers other sorts but none like any in Christendome except those carried thither the aire very pleasant and healthfull but exceeding ●ot yet so tempered with coole breaths it seemes very temperate to them that are a little used to it the trees being alwaies greene the daies and nights alwayes very neere equall in length alwayes Summer only they have in their seasons great gusts and raines and somtimes a Hericano which is an overgrowne and a most violent storme In some of those Iles are cattell goats and hogges but here none but what they must carry Gwanes they have which is a little harmelesse beast like a Crokadell or Aligator very fat and good meat she layes egges in the sand as doth the land Crabs which live here in abundance like Conies in Boroughs unlesse about May when they come downe to the Sea side to lay in the sand as the other and all their egges are hatched by the heat of the Sunne From May to September they have good store of Tortasses that come out of the Sea to lay their egges in the sand and are hatched as the other they will lay halfe a pecke at a time and neere a bushell ere they have done and are round like Tenis-balls this fish is like veale in taste the fat of a brownish colour very good and wholsome We seeke them in the nights where we finde them on shore we turne them upon their backs till the next day we fetch them home for they can never returne themselves being so hard a cart may goe over them and so bigge one will suffice forty or fifty men to dinner Divers sorts of other fish they have in abundance and Prawnes most great and excellent but none will keepe sweet scarce twelve houres The best and greatest is a Passer Flaminga which walking at her length is as tall as a man Pigeons and Turtle Doves in abundance some Parrots wilde Hawkes but divers other sorts of good Sea fowle whose names we know not Cassado is a root planted in the ground of a wonderfull increase and will make very good white bread but the Iuyce ranke poyson yet boyled better than wine Potatos Cabbages and Radish plenty Mayes like the Virginia wheat we have Pine-apples neere so bigge as an Hartichocke but the most daintiest taste of any fruit Plantnais an excellent and a most increasing fruit Apples Prickell Peares and Pease but differing all from ours There is Pepper that groweth in a little red huske as bigge as a Walnut about foure inches in length but the long cods are small and much stronger and better for use than that from the East Indies There is two sorts of Cotten the silke Cotten as in the East Indies groweth upon a small stalke as good for beds as downe the other upon a shrub and beareth a cod bigger than a Walnut full of Cotten wooll Anotto also groweth upon a shrub with a cod like the other and nine or ten on a bunch full of Anotto very good for Dyers though wilde Sugar Canes not tame 4. or 5. foot high also Mast●cke and Locus trees g●eat and hard timber Gourds Muske Melons Water Melons Lettice P●rsly all places naturally beare pursl●ine of it selfe Sope-berries like a Musket bullet that washeth as white as Sope in the middle of the root is a thing like a sedge a very good f●uit we call Pengromes a Pappaw is as great as an apple coloured like an Orange and good to eat a small hard nut like a hazell nut growes close to the ground and like this growes on the Palmetas which we call a Mucca nut Mustard-seed will grow to a great tree but beares no seed yet the leaves will make good mustard the Mancinell tree the fruit is poyson good figs in abundance but the Palmeta serveth to build Forts and houses the leaves to cover them and many other uses the iuyce we draw from them till we sucke them to death is held restorative and the top for meat doth serve us as Cabbage but oft we want poudered Beefe and Bacon and many other needfull necessaries by Thomas Simons Rowland Grascocke Nicholas Burgh and others CHAP. XXVI The first planting of the Barbados THe Barbados lies South-west and by South an hundred leagues from Saint Christophers threescore leagues West and South from Trinidado and some fourescore leagues from Cape de Salinos the next part of the maine The first planters brought thither by Captaine Henry Powel were forty English with seven or eight Negros then he went to Disacuba in the maine where