before 1605. Captaine of a Pinnasse of the King of Denmarke for the Discouery of the North-west passage begunne the eighteenth of Aprill 1606. H. pag. 827. CHAP. XVII The fourth Voyage of Iames Hall to Groaneland wherein he was set forth by English Aduenturers Anno 1612. and slaine by a Greenelander Written by William Baffin H. pag. 831. CHAP. XVIII A true Relation of such things as happened in the fourth Voyage for the Discouerie of the North-west Passage performed in the yeere 1615. written by William Baffin H. P. pag. 836. CHAP. XIX A briefe and true Relation of Iournall containing such accidents as happened in the fift Voyage for the discouery of a passage in the North-west set forth at the charges of the right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Smith Knight Sir Dudly Digges Knight Master Iohn Mostenholme Esquire Master Alderman Iones with others in the goodship called the Discouery of London Robert Bileth Master and my selfe Pilot performed in the yeere of our Lord 1616. pag. 844. CHAP. XX. A briefe Discourse of the probability of a passage to the Westerne or South Sea illustrated with testimonies and a briefe Treatise and Map by Master Brigges H.P. pag. 848. The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the Fifth Booke of the second part of Purchas his PILGRIMS CHAP. I. A Description of the West Indies by Antonio de Herrera his Maiesties chiefe Chronicler of the Indies and his Chronicler of Castile H. P. pag. 855 The Presidents Counsellors Secretaries and Attourneys which vnto this present day haue serued and doe serue in the supreme Councell of the Indies from their first Discouerie pag. 916. The Gouernours and Vice-royes which haue gouerned vntill this time the Kingdomes of New-Spaine and of Peru. pag. 917. CHAP. II. Obseruations gathered out of the First Second Third and Fourth Bookes of Iosephus Acosta a learned Iesuite touching the naturall historie of the Heauens Ayre Water and Earth at the West Indies Also of their Beasts Fishes Fowles Plants and other remarkeable rarities of Nature pag. 918. § 1. Of the fashion and forme of Heauen at the new-found World and of the Ayre and Winds ibid. § 2. Of the Ocean that inuirons the Indies and of the North and South Seas their ebbing flowing Fishes fishing Lakes Riuers and Springs pag. 928. § 3. Of the qualitie of the Land at the Indies in generall Properties of Peru and of new Spaine and other parts of Vulcanes and Earthquakes pag. 935. § 4. Of Metals in the Indies and especially of the Gold and Siluer and Quick-siluer pag. 941. § 5. Of Emeralds Pearles Indian Bread Trees Fruits Flowers naturall and carried thither from Spaine pag. 952. § 6. Of Beasts and Fowles in the Indies pag. 962. Of Fowles that are proper to the Indies and Venison pag. 965. CHAP. III. Extracts of Gonzalo Ferdinando de Ouiedo his Summarie and the generall Historie of the Indies pag. 970. Of the Mynes of Gold and the manner of working in them ibid. Of the manner of fishing for Pearles pag. 972. Of the familiaritie which certaine of the Indians haue with the Deuill and how they receiue answere of him of things to come and other superstitions pag. 973. Of diuers particular things as Wormes Serpents Beasts Fowles Trees c. pag. 975. Of Trees Fruits and Plants pag. 981. Of Reedes or Canes pag. 983. Of venemous Apples wherwith they poyson their Arrowes pag. 985. Of Fishes and of the manner of fishing p. 986. Of the increase and decrease that is rising and falling of our Ocean Sea and South Sea called the Sea of Sur. pag. 989. Of the straight or narrow passage of the Land lying betweene the North and South Sea by the which Spices may much sooner and easilier be brought from the Ilands of Molucca into Spaine by the West Ocean then by that way wherby the Portugals saile into the East India ibid. How things that are of one kinde differ in forme and qualitie according to the nature of the place where they are engendred or grow and of the beasts called Tigres pag. 990. Of the manners and customes of the Indians of the Firme Land and of their Women pag. 991. Of the chiefe Ilands Hispaniola and Cuba pag. 993. CHAP. IIII. Mexican Antiquities gathered out of the writings of Iosephus Acosta a learned Iesuite pag. 1000. § 1. Of the ancient Inhabitants of new Spain and of the sixe Linages of the Nauatlacas Of the Mexican Exodus and aduentures by the way the foundation of Mexico their first King and Tribute ibid. § 2. Of the second King Vitzilouitli and of his successours and their Acts vntill the reigne of Motezuma their last King pag. 1009. § 3. Of the election of great Motezuma the last King of Mexico his pompe and manner of gouernment prodigious fore-warnings of his ruine and the Spanish conquest pag. 1018. CHAP. V. Of the ancient superstitions of the Mexicans and Indians of America gathered out of the fifth booke of Iosephus Acosta pag. 1026. CHAP. VI. Ciuill Customes and Arts of the Indians taken out of Acostas 6. Booke pag. 1050. CHAP. VII The Historie of the Mexican Nation described in pictures by the Mexican Author explained in the Mexican language which exposition translated into Spanish and thence into English together with the said Picture-historie are heere presented H. pag. 1066 § 1. The Mexican Chronicle ibid. § 2. The second part of this Booke contayning the particular Tributes which euery Towne subdued payed vnto the Lords of Mexico pag. 1080 § 3. The third part of this Booke contayneth the priuate behauiour in Marriages education of Children and Trades with the Martiall Ecclesiasticke and Ciuill policie of the Mexican people pag. 1102. CHAP. VIII Conquest of Mexico and New Spaine by Hernando Cortes pag. 1118. CHAP. IX Larger Relations of things most remarkeable obserued by the Spaniards at their first comming Cholallas holies Popocatepecs ashes Mutezumas multiforme Magnificence and Maiestie Mexican Citie and Temple with other Antiquities gathered out of the Third part of the Historie of Francis Lopez de Gomara pag. 1123. The Hill called Popocatepec ibid. Description of Mexico as it flourished in those times pag. 1131. Other Mexican Antiquities Letters Numbers Yeeres Dayes Weekes c. pag. 1135. Their reckoning by numbers ibid. The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the sixth Booke of the Second part of Purchas his PILGRIMS CHAP. I. A Briefe Relation of the seuerall Voyages vndertaken and performed by the Right Honourable George Earl of Cumberland in his owne person or at his owne charge and by his direction collected out of the Relations and Iournals of credible persons Actors therein pag. 1141. CHAP. II. The Voyage to Saint Iohn de Porto Rico by the Right Honourable George Earle of Cumberland written by himselfe H. pag. 1150. CHAP. III. A large Relation of Port Ricco Voyage written as is reported by that learned man and reuerend Diuine Doctor Eglambie his Lordships Chaplaine and Attendant in that Expedion very much abbreuiated H. pag.
1155. § 1. The Ships employed in the Voyage and accidents on the Coasts of Spaine in the Canaries and the Nauigation thence to Dominica ibid. § 2. Description of Dominica and the Virgines Their landing on Port Ricco March fights and taking the Towne pag. 1157. § 3. The Fort Mora besieged and taken The Towne described the Mines Purpose to hold the place altered by the death and sicknesse of manie pag. 1162. A resolution which they were to trust to p. 1163. § 4. Purpose of returne Treatie with the Spaniards His Lordships departure Description of the Iland the Beasts Fruits Plants c. pag. 1168. § 5. Accidents by Sea in their way to the Azores and there pag. 1174. CHAP. IIII. The first Voyages made to diuers parts of America by Englishmen Sir Sebastian Cabot Sir Thomas Pert also of Sir Iohn Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake and many others collected briefly out of Master Camden Master Hakluit and other Writers pag. 117â— A briefe Historie of Sir Francis Drakes Voyages pag. 1179. A briefe recitall or nomination of Sea-fights other Englishmens Voyages related at large in the printed Workes of Master Hakluit pag. 1186. CHAP. V. The Relation of Peter Carder of Saint Verian in Cornwall within seuen miles of Falmouth which went with Sir Francis in his Voyage about the World begun 1577. who with seuen others in an open Pinnasse or Shallop of fiue tunnes with eight Oares was separated from his Generall by foule weather in the South Sea in October Anno 1578. who returning by the Straites of Magellan toward Brasill were all cast away saue this one onely aforenamed who came into England nine yeeres after miraculously hauing escaped many strange dangers aswell among diuers Sauages as Christians H. pag. 1187. CHAP. VI. Master Thomas Candish his Discourse of his fatall and disastrous Voyage towards the South Sea with his many disaduentures in the Magellan Straits and other places written with his owne hand to Sir Tristram Gorges his Executor H. pag. 1192. CHAP. VII The admirable aduentures and strange fortunes of Master Anthonie Kniuet which went with Master Thomas Candish in his second Voyage to the South Sea 1591. H. P. pag. 1201. § 1. What befell in their Voyage to the Straits and after till hee was taken by the Portugals ibid. § 2. Anthonie Kniuet his comming to the R. of Ianero and vsage amongst the Portugals and Indians his diuers Trauels thorow diuers Regions of those parts pag. 1207. § 3. His strange trauels with twelue Portugals whom the Sauages did eate His life with the Canibals and after that with the Portugals from whom hee fleeth to Angola is brought backe and after manifold chances is shipped to Lisbone pag. 1216. § 4. The diuers Nations of Sauages in Brasill and the adioyning Regions their diuersities of Conditions States Rites Creatures and other thinges remarkeable which the Author obserued in his many yeeres manifold Peregrinations pag. 1225. The Giants of Port Desire and Inhabitants of Port Famine also Angola Congo and Massangana and Angica Countries of Africa pag. 1232. § 5. The description of diuers Riuers Ports Harbours Ilands of Brasill for instruction of Nauigators pag. 1237. CHAP. VIII Relations of Master Thomas Turner who liued the best part of two yeeres in Brasill c. which I receiued of him in conference touching his Trauels pag. 1243. CHAP. IX The taking of Saint Vincent and Puerto Bello by Captaine William Parker of Plimouth the seuenth of February 1601. ibid. CHAP. X. Certayne Notes of a Voyage made by Dauid Middleton into the West Indies with Captaine Michael Geare Ann. Dom. 1601. H. pag. 1242. CHAP. XI The Description of the I le of Trinidad the rich Countrey of Guiana and the mightie Riuer of Orenoco written by Francis Sparrey left there by Sir Walter â—aileigh 1595. and in the end taken by the Spaniards and sent Prisoner into Spaine and after long Captiuitie got into England by great sute H. pag. 1247. CHAP. XII Captaine Charles Leigh his Voyage to Guiana and plantation there H. pag â—250 CHAP. XIII A true Relation of the traiterous Massacre of the most part of threescore and seuen English men set on Land out of a Ship of Sir Oliph Leagh bound for Guiana in Santa Lucia an Iland of the West Indie the three and twentieth of August written by Iohn Nicol. H. P. pag. 1255. CHAP. XIIII The Relation of Master Iohn Wilson of Wansteed in Essex one of the last tenne that returned into England from Wiapoco in Guiana 1606. H. pag. 1260. CHAP. XV. Part of a Treatise written by Master William Turner Sonne to Doctor Turner of London a Physitian touching the former Voyage H. pag. 1265 CHAP. XVI A Relation of a Voyage to Guiana performed by Robert Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt in the Countie of Oxford Esquire pag. 1267. The names of the Riuers falling into the Sea from Amazones to Dessequebe and of the seuerall Nations inhabiting those Riuers pag. 1282. CHAP. XVII A Relation of the habitation and other Obseruations of the Riuer of Marwin and the adioyning Regions pag. 1283. Riuers from Brabisse to the Amazones p. 1286 CHAP. XVIII A Description and Discouerie of the Riuer of Amazons by William Dauies Barber Surgeon of London pag. 1287. The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the Seuenth Booke of the second part of Purchas his PILGRIMS CHAP. I. A Treatise of Brasill written by a Portugall which had long liued there H. pag. 1289. § 1. Of the beginning and originall of the Indians of Brasill and of their Customes Religions and Ceremonies ibid. § 2. Of their manner of killing and eating of Humane flesh and of their creating Gentlemen pag. 1294. § 3. Of the diuersitie of Nations and Languages and of the Soyle and Climate pag. 1297. § 4. Of the Beasts Land-serpents and Fowles pag. 1301. Of Land-snakes and Serpents pag. 1303. Of the Fowles that are in the Land and are thereon sustained pag. 1304. § 5. Of the Brasilian Trees for Fruit Medicine and other vses and their Herbes of rare operations pag. 1306. Of the Herbes that yeeld Fruit and are eaten pag. 1309. § 6. Of the Fishes that swimme in the Salt-water also Shel-fishes Trees and Fowles of the Sea of Riuers and the Creatures which liue therein and the Beasts and Plants brought thither out of Portugall pag. 1312. Birds that doe feed and are found in the Salt-water pag. 1316. Fresh-water Snakes and Creatures of the water pag. 1317. Of the Beasts Trees and Herbes that came from Portugall and doe grow and breed in Brasill pag. 1318. CHAP. II. Articles touching the dutie of the Kings Maiestie our Lord and to the common good of all the estate of Brasill Written as is thought by the Author of the former Treatise H. pag. 1320. CHAP. III. Extracts out of the Historie of Iohn Lerius a Frenchman who liued in Brasill with Monsieur Villagagnon Anno 1557. and 58. H.P. pag. 1325 § 1. Of the Beasts and other liuing Creatures and Plants
so often mentioned and praysed I smell a Friars Lyars hand in this businesse Our Mandevile trauelled from Ierusalem beyond Ierico from Christendome to remotest Ethnikes and hath fallen among Theeues The Friarly Priest and Leuite not onely neglected him but I am afraid played the Theeues thus to rob and wound him mayming the two former parts and iuggling in the third which I haue therefore chopped off not daring in the former but with the Nilus Dogge to taste and away for feare of a false Crocodile Here you may finde lyes by retaile efficta afficta affixa to this Mandevile who there is made a maunde vile full of such pedlerie vnworthy thy sight CHAP. VI. Briefe Collections of the Trauels and Obseruations of Sir IOHN MANDEVILE written by Master BALE Cent. 6. IOhn Mandevile Knight borne in the Towne of Saint Albons was so well giuen to the studie of Learning from his childhood that he seemed to plant a good part of his felicitie in the same for he supposed that the honour of his birth would nothing auaile him except hee could render the same more honorable by his knowledge in good Letters Hauing therefore well grounded himselfe in Religion by reading the Scriptures he applyed his studies to the Art of Physick a Profession worthy a noble wit but amongst other things hee was rauished with a mightie desire to see the greater parts of the World as Asia and Africa Hauing therefore prouided all things necessarie for his iourney hee departed from his Countrey in the yeere of Christ 1332. and as another Vlysses returned home after the space of foure and thirtie yeeres and was then knowne to a very few In the time of his trauaile he was in Scythia the greater and lesse Armenia Egypt both Lybias Arabia Syria Media Mesopotamia Persia Chaldaea Greece Illyrium Tartarie and diuers other Kingdomes of the World and hauing gotten by this meanes the knowledge of the Languages leâ—â— so many and great varieties and things miraculous whereof himselfe had beene an eye witâ—esse should perish in obliuion hee committed his whole Trauell of three and thirtie yeeres to writing in three diuers Tongues English French and Latine Being arriued againe in England and hauing seene the wickednesse of that Age hee gaue out this speech In our time said hee it may bee spoken more truly then of old that Vertue is gone the Church is vnder foot the Clergie is in error the Deuill raigneth and Simonie beareth the sway c. Hee dyed at Leege in the yeere 1372. the 17. day of Nouember being there buried in the Abbey of the Order of the Guilielmites The Tombe and Epitaph of Sir Iohn Mandevile in the Citie of Leege spoken of by Ortelius in his Booke called Itinerarium Belgiae in this sort MAgna populosa Leodij suburbia ad collium radices in quorum iugis multa sunt pulcherrima Monasteria inter quae magnificum illud ac nobile D. Laurentio dicatum ab Raginardo Episcopo Est in hac quoque Regione vel suburbijs Leodij Guilielmitarum Coenobium in quo Epitaphium hoc Ioannis à Mandeville excepimus Hic jacet vir nobilis D. Ioannes de Mandeville aliter dictus ad Barbam Miles Dominus de Campdi natus de Anglia Medicinae Professor deuotissimus orator bonorum largissimus pauperibus erogator qui toto quasi orbe lustrato Leodij diem vitae suae clausit extremum Anno Dom. 1371. Mensis Nouembris die 17. Haec in lapide in quo caelata viri armati imago Leonem calcantis barba bifurcata ad caput manus benedicens vernacula haec verba Voâ— qui paseis sor mi pour l'amour deix prâ—ïes por mi. Clipeus erat vacuus in quo olim fuisse dicebant laminam aeream eius in ea itidem caelata insignia Leonem videlicet argenteum cui ad pectus lunula rubea in campo caeruleo quem Lâ—mbus ambiret denticulatus ex auro Eius nobis ostendebant cultros ephipiaque calcaria quibus vsum fuisse asserebant in peragrando toto fere terrarum orbe vt clariùs testatur eius Itinerarium quod typis etiam excusum passim habetur PRincipi Excellentissimo prae cunctis mortalibus praecipue venerando Domino Edwardo ejus nominis Tertio diuina prouidentia Francorum Anglorum Regi Serenissimo Hiberniae Domino Aquitaniae Duci mari ac eius Insulis Occidentalibus dominanti Christianorum encomio ornatui vniuersâ—rumque arma gerentium Tutori ac Probitatis strenuitatis exemplo Principi quoq inuicto mirabilis Alexandri Sequaci ac vniuerso Orbi tremendo cum reuerentia non qua decet cum ad talem tantam reuerentiam minus sufficientes extiterint sed qua paruitas possibilitas mittentis ac offerentis se extendunt contenta tradantur CVm terra Hierosolymitana terra promissionis filiorum Dei dignior cunctis mundi terris sit habendâ— multis ex causis praecipuè illa quod Deus conditor coeli mundi ipsam tanti dignatus fuit aestimare vt in eo proprium filium Saluatorem mundi Christum exhibuerit geueri humano per incarnationem ex intemerata Virgine per eius conuersationem humillimam in eadem ac per dolorosam mortis suae consummationem ibidem atque indè per eius admirandam Resurrectionem ac Ascensionem in coelum postremo quia creditur illic in fine saeculi reuersurus omnia iudicaturus certum est quòd ab omnibus qui Christiano nomine à Christo dicuntur sit tanquam à suis proprijs haeredibus diligenda pro cuiusque potestate ac modulo honoranda Verum quia iam nostris temporibus verius quà m olim dici potest Virtus Ecclesia Clerus Daemon Simonia Cessat calcatur errat regnat dominatur ecce iusto Dei iudicio credita est terra tam inclyta Sacrosancta impiorum manibus Saracenorum quod non est absque dolore pijs mentibus audiendum recolendum Ego Ioannes Mandeuil militaris ordinis saltem gerens nomen natus educatus in terra Angliae in Villa Sancti Albani ducebar in Adolescentiamea tali inspiratione vt quamuis non per potentiam nec per vires proprias possem praefatam terram suis haeredibus recuperare irem tamen per aliquod temporis spacium peregrinari ibidem salutarem aliquantulum de propinquo Vnde in Anno ab Incarnatione Domini 1322. imposui me nauigations Marsiliensis marâ—s vsque in hoc temporis Anni 1355. scilicet per 33. annos in transmarinis partibus mansi peregrinatus sum ambulaui circuiui multas ac diuersas Patriaâ— Regiones Prouincias Insulas Turciam Armeniam maiorem minorem Aegyptum Lybiam bassam altam Syriam Arabiam Persiam Chaldaeam Aethiopiae partem magnam Tartariam Amazoniam Indiam minorem mediam ac partem magnam de maiori in istis
wherein I vnderstand of the backwardnesse of your Voyage the which I am hartily sorrie for but you must be content seeing it is the will of God it shall be so and that other harbours take neighbours fare with you our best hopes of our Voyage was vpon you for of our selues we doe little in regard we are much troubled with Ice and haue bin so this ten dayes which hath made vs hale ashoare sixe or seauen times for it we haue had the windes at North-east and East North-east and at North-west which now keepes in the Ice we haue killed ten Whales whereof eight are made into Oyle which hath made one hundred and eleauen Tuns a halfe the other two were killed the fourth of this present being very large fish not doubting but they will make sixe and thirtie or fortie tunnes we haue the hundred tunnes aboord the rest Master Barker taketh in in regard Master Bushes shippe is not fitted up we shall make her fore-Mast to serue againe and all things else for this Voyage The fourth of this present George Wiuelden came from Horne-sound where they haue killed foure Whales they haue bin much troubled with windes Easterly also much Ice there is so much Ice off of Point Looke out that George could not get about This Ice hath put in young Duke of Hull into Horne-sound his ship being much torne with the Ice his Merchant is now aboord of vs his name is Medcafe whom the Captaine doth detaine his Voyage is vtterly ouerthrowne for he hath lost one shallop with sixe men and another shallop broken with the Ice his Ruther Irons being all broken his Steeme broke a way close to the Woodings also George did meete with a Fleming of Flushing burthen two hundred tuns the which he thinkes is cast away with Ice for the Ice did beate her very sore I vnderstand by M. Catchers Letter that there is eleauen saile of Flemmings and Danes about them I doubt not but we shall call them to account of how many tunnes of Oyle they haue made as they did call vs the last Voyage to account my loue is such vnto them that I protest I could wish with all my heart that we might goe and see them and to spend my best bloud in the righting of our former wrongs Also I vnderstood by Robert Foxe that Aâ—rian of Flushing is one of them I should be very glad to see him that I might balance the account with him The Captaine willed mee to write vnto you concerning the Russe house that if you cannot set it vp that then you should make an English house of it and to place the post of a Deales length and to be three Deales in length and so much in breadth and so to couer it with Deales the next yeare and so he thinketh that it will make two frames also hee could wish that you would remoue the Coppers more vp into the Bay I pray you commend me to my louing friend Master Sherwine Master Wilkinson Master Henderson and Michael Greene also my loue remembred vnto your selfe I take my leaue hoping we shall see you at the Fore-land ere it be long till when I pray God to blesse you and prosper you in all your proceedings Resting still Bell-sound the fifth of Iuly 1619. Your assured friend to command ROBERT SALMON Iunior A Letter of I. CATCHER to Master HELEY from Faire-hauen Laus Deo this seuenteenth of Iune 1620. LOuing Brother with my best loue I salute you wishing you better then we at this time to haue good store of Whales to make for you and vs a Voyage for we haue seene small store of Whales but haue killed none as yet In the Flemish harbour there is three Flemings great shippes whereof is one Statesman of Warre who haue set to Sea eighteene shallops with three Biscaners in euerie shallop and in our harbour two of the Kings of Denmarkes ships who haue set to Sea seauen shallops with three Biscainers in euerie shallop the Hollanders haue killed one Whale and found one Whale of the last yeares killing I thought good to send to you the sooner because we hope you haue good store of Whales that you may send for vs to you which I pray God you may for we are in great doubt but our hope is if that you are not yet prouided to send for vs we haue a great time to stay in this Countrie in which time it may so please God that we may here make a Voyage For our selues one of our men is dead and one other sicke so that wee haue but one and fiftie men which is too little as you know therefore if you can spare vs three men they will stand vs in good stead if our Voyage commeth in there is to the Northward good store of Ice which putteth vs in good comfort that we shall haue Whales the Danes doe report that there is two shippes to come from Denmarke to our harbour but as yet are not come I pray you commend vs to Master Wilkinson Master Greene Master Hedlam Master Cleyborne Master Alpho and all the rest of our good friends Humfrey Moore is very sicke so that we shall want a Harponiere I know not what to write more to you for with griefe I write this Thus kindely taking my leaue beseeching God to blesse vs and send vs a good Voyage with a merry meeting I rest Your louing brother to vse IOHN CATCHER A Letter of ROBERT SALMON from Sir THOMAS SMITHS Bay Iuly 6. 1621. LOuing friend Master Heley with-my loue I salute you c. These are to certifie you that vpon the fifteenth of the last we arriued at Sir Thomas Smiths vnfortunate Bay since which time we haue killed sixe Whales which are almost reduced into Oyle being some seuentie tunnes or somewhat more so within a day or two we may goe sleepe for I feare we haue our portion of Whales in this place wee haue not seene a Whale this fourteene dayes and faire weather is as scarce as the Whales for ten daies together nothing but blow sometime Southerly and sometime Northerly I doe verily perswade my selfe that God is much displeased for the blood which was lost in this place and I feare a perpetuall curse still to remaine yet God I know is all sufficient and may if it please him send a Voyage in this place Newes from Faire-hauen I can write you none for as yet we haue not heard from him the reason thereof I cannot conceiue I feare his Shallop is miscarried for certainely else we should haue heard from him ere this or some other cause there is I pray God it be not so I pray commend me to Master Iohn Hedlam and tell him that the Master and Pilot doe set both their horse together being very great friends also I pray commend me to my Coseu William Driuer and Master Wilkinson wishing them all happinesse I am in good hope that you haue done some good vpon the Whale not doubting but
Imperiall Pallace and beganne to gouerne the Empire more inclining to the Poles and forreiners then to the Russes which vntimely expressing himselfe hastned his ruine Seuentie noble Families of Boris his kindred or faction were exiled that their Goods might be â—hared amongst strangers and new Colonies of men planted brought into Russia His clemency was remarkable to Suisky who being condemned for not onely refusing to acknowledge this Emperour but vttering also reproachfull speeches of him as being of base Parentage and one which had conspired with the Poles to ouerthrow the Russian Temples Nobility and now his prayers ended and the fatall stroake on his knees expected on the seauenth of Iuly by vnexpected mercy euen then receiued his pardon The last which yeelded to him were the Plescouites Some tell of exceeding Treasures also which hee found laid vp for other purposes which through his profusenesse soone vanished The first of September was designed to his inauguration being New yeeres day to the Russes as sometimes to the Iewes but for other causes it was hastned and his Mother was sent for out of a Monasterie into which Boris had thrust her farâ—e from the Court An honorable Conuoy was herein employed and himselfe with great shew of Pietie went to meet her embraced her with teares and bare-headed on foot attended her Chariot to the Castle whence afterwards she remoued with her women into a Monasterie where the Noblest Virgins and Widdowes of Russia vse to sequester themselues from the World His Mother was noted to answere with like affection to him whether true or dissembled on both parts At his entrance to the Kingdome after Ceremonies ended Nicolas Cnermacouius a Iesuite made him a goodly Oration the like was done by the Senate To the Iesuits was alotted a faire place of entertaynment not far from the Castle wherein to obserue the Romish Rites and Holies and euen then by their meanes he had declared himselfe in that point but for feare of Suiskie hee stayed till fitter oportunitie Hauing thus setled things his care was to recompence the Poles to enter league with that Nation and to consummate the Marriage For which purpose hee sent three hundred Horsemen with Athanasius the Treasurer who in Nouember came to Cracouia had audience of King Sigismund where he with all thankfulnesse acknowledged the Kings forwardnesse with his Nobles to recouer his right whereto God had giuen answerable successe beyond expectation that he deplored the Turkish insolencies in Hungary and other parts to vindicate which he would willingly joyne with the Pole and other Christian Princes meane whiles hee was willing to make an euerlasting league with him and to that end entreated his good leaue to take vnto himselfe a Wife out of Poland namely Anna Maria the Daughter of George Miecinsie the Palatine of Sendomir to whom for money men and endangering of his owne life hee was so much engaged The eight day after the Contract was solemnely made by the Cardinall Bishop of Cracouia and the Embassadour with her Parents feasted by the King Demetrius had sent her and her Father Iewels worth 200000. Crownes Thus farre haue wee followed Thuanus and hee Iacobus Margaretus a French Captayne of Demetrius guard of Partisans which published a Booke hereof Now let vs present you a little English Intelligence touching this Demetrius and his respect to men of our Nation in those parts and first his Letter to Sir Iohn Mericke The Copie of a Letter sent from the Emperor DEMETRY EVANOWICH otherwise called GRISHCO OTREAPYOV the which Letter was sent to Master IOHN MERRICK Agent out of the Campe as Master MERRICK was taking his Iournie to the Sea-side the eighth of Iune Anno 1605. FRom the great Lord Emperour and great Duke Demetry Euanowich of all Russia To the English Marchant Iohn Merrick wee giue to vnderstand that by the iust iudgement of God and his strong power we are raised to our Fathers throne of Vladedmer Mosko and of all the Empire of Russia as great Duke and sole commander likewise we calling to memorie the loue and amitie of our Father the great Lord Emperour and great Duke Euan Vassilywich of all Russia and our Brother Theodor Euanowich of all Russia which was held and kept by them and other great Christian Princes in the same forme and manner doe we likewise intend and purpose to hold and keepe Loue and amitie but especially and aboue all others doe we intend to send and to haue loue and friendship with your King Iames and all you his English Merchants we will fauour more then before Further as soone as this our Letter doth come to your hand and as soone as you haue ended your Markets at the shipping place of Michael the Archangell then to come vp to Mosco to behold our Maiesties presence And for your poste Horse I haue commanded shall be giuen you and at your comming to Mosco then to make your appearance in our Chancery to our Secretarie Ofanasy Vlassou Written in our Maiesties Campe at Tooly in the yeare of the world Anno seauen thousand one hundred and thirteene The Copie of the translation of a Passe giuen to Master IOHN MERRICK which was giuen him in the time of his being in the Campe at Molodoue with the Emperour DEMETRY EVANOWICH otherwise called GRISHCO OTREAPYOVE FRom the great Lord Emperour and great Duke Demetry Euanowich of all Russia from Mosco to our Cities and Castles as also to the Castle of Archangell at the Shipping place and hauen to our Generals Secretaries and all other our Officers c. There did make suite vnto vs the English Marchant Iohn Merricke and his Company that we would gratifie them to be suffered to passe to the new Castle of Archangell or to the shipping place or hauen in regard of trafficke of Merchandise Also that if he doe send home any of his fellowes and seruants from the shipping place being of the English that then they might be suffered to passe into England Also that to whatsoeuer Citie of ours the English Marchant Iohn Mericke and his fellowes doth or shall come vnto then all yee our Generals Secretaries and oll other our Officers shall suffer them to passe euery where without all delay And as for our Customes as for passing by or for head mony our custome of goods you shall not take any of them nor of their seruants Likewise when the English Merchants Iohn Merricke with his fellowes and seruants shall come to the Castle of Archangell then Timophey Matphewich Lazaroue and our Secretary Rohmaneum Mocaryoued Voronoue at the foresaid Castle of Archangell shall suffer and permit the English Merchant Iohn and his companie to trade freely Moreouer when at the shipping place they haue ended and finished their Markets and that then the said Iohn Merricke shall desire to send into England any of his fellowes or seruants with goods then likewise they shall be suffered to passe But Russâ— people and other strangers of
demeanour like to bruâ—t beasts whom the King kept a long time after Two yeeres after I saw two of them at Westminster apparelled like English c. Master Robert Thorne writes that his Father and Master Hugh Eliot a Merchant of Bristoll were the first discouerers of New-found Land and if the Mariners would haue beene ruled and followed their Pilots minde the West Indies had beene ours so that it seemeth this Discouerie was before that of Columbus Master Hakluyt hath published the particulars of these things more fully as also diuers Treatises touching the North-west of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and others to which I referre the Reader and no lesse for the Voyages made by diuers English into those parts three by Sir Martin Frobisher in the yeeres 1576 77 and 78. Two of Captaine Iohn Dauies in 86 and 87. that of Master Hore An. 1536. that of Sir Humphrey Gilbert 1583. that of Master Charles Leigh to Ramea An. 1597. and before in 1593. that of George Drake with those of Iaques Cartier and diuers others My purpose is not to steale Master Hakluyts labours out of the World by culling and fleecing them for our purpose but by this Index to instruct men where they may haue festiuall store in this kinde I had rather giue you new things Such are to the World these that you had before in Hudsons voyages set together as also those of Greenland and such are those of Waymouth Knight Hall Baffin c. And first as Foreman of our Quest we will giue you Sir Humphrey Gilberts Letter written with his owne hand from New-found Land whereof he tooke formall possession to the Crowne of England and was as a Martyr of those Discoueries It was written to Sir George Peckham a great Aduenturer in that voyage and a greater in one of longer life his written Treatise of Westerne planting extant in Master Hakluyts third Tome and I haue here inserted it being hitherto vnprinted as a memorial of both their worths and after it though in time before wee will recreate you with a plaine Mariners Letter endorsed in homely phrase To the Honorable Kings Grace of England here as I thinke giuen you from the Originall I haue also another written to Cardinall Wolsey touching the same voyage in Latin by Albertus de Prato for the antiquitie rather then any remarkable raritie worthy here to be mentioned SIr George I departed from Plymouth on the eleuenth of Iune with fiue sailes and on the thirteenth the Barke Rawley ran from me in faire and cleere weather hauing a large winde I pray you solicite my brother Rawley to make them an example of all Knaues On the third of August wee arriued at a Port called Saint Iohns and will put to the Seas from thence God willing so soone as our ships will be ready Of the New-found Land I will say nothing vntill my next Letters Be of good cheare for if there were no better expectation it were a very rich demaynes the Country being very good and full of all sorts of victuall as fish both of the fresh water and Sea-fish Deere Pheasants Partridges Swannes and diuers Fowles else I am in haste you shall by euery Messenger heare more at large On the fifth of August I entred here in the right of the Crowne of England and haue engrauen the Armes of England diuers Spaniards Portugals and other strangers witnessing the same I can stay no longer fare you well with my good Lady and be of good cheare for I haue comforted my selfe answerable to all my hopes From Saint Iohns in the New-found Land the 8. of August 1583. Yours wholly to command no man more HVM GILBART I mentioned before Master Thornes fathers finding New-found Land with Master Eliot These animated King Henrie the eight to set forth two ships for discouerie one of which perished in the North parts of New-found Land The Master of the other Iohn Rut writ this Letter to King Henrie in bad English and worse Writing Ouer it was this superscription Master Grubes two ships departed from Plymouth the 10. day of Iune and arriued in the New-found Land in a good Harbour called Cape de Bas the 21. day of Iuly and after we had left the sight of Selle we had neuer sight of any Land till we had sight of Cape de Bas. PLeasing your Honorable Grace to heare of your seruant Iohn Rut with all his Company here in good health thanks be to God and your Graces ship The Mary of Gilford with all her thanks be to God And if it please your honorable Grace we ranne in our course to the Northward till we came into 53. degrees and there we found many great Ilands of Ice and deepe water we found no sounding and then we durst not goe no further to the Northward for feare of more Ice and then we cast about to the Southward and within foure dayes after we had one hundred and sixtie fathom and then wee came into 52. degrees and fell with the mayne Land and within ten leagues of the mayne Land we met with a great Iland of Ice and came hard by her for it was standing in deepe water and so went in with Cape de Bas a good Harbor and many small Ilands and a great fresh Riuer going vp farre into the mayne Land and the mayne Land all wildernesse and mountaines and woods and no naturall ground but all mâ—sse and no inhabitation nor no people in these parts and in the woods wee found footing of diuers great beasts but we saw none not in ten leagues And please your Grace the Samson and wee kept company all the way till within two dayes before wee met with all the Ilands of Ice that was the first day of Iuly at night and there rose a great and a maruailous great storme and much foule weather I trust in Almightie Iesu to heare good newes of her And please your Grace we were considering and a writing of all our order how we would wash vs and what course wee would draw and when God doe send foule weather that with the Cape de Sper shee should goe and he that came first should tarry the space of sixe weeks one for another and watered at Cape de Bas ten dayes ordering of your Graces ship and fishing and so departed toward the Southward to seeke our fellow the third day of August we entered into a good Hauen called Saint Iohn and there we found eleuen saile of Normans and one Brittaine and two Portugall Barkes and all a fishing and so we are readie to depart toward Cape de Bas and that is twentie fiue leagues as shortly as we haue fished and so along the coast till we may meete with our fellow and so with all diligence that lyes in me toward parts to that Ilands that we are commanded by the grace of God as we were commanded at our departing And thus Iesu saue and keepe your honorable Grace and all your honourable Reuer in
want of time to stay in the Countrey may bee some let yet they may well tarry till the last of August in which space much businesse may be done and good store of Oile made neuerthelesse if store of Whales come in as no feare to the contrarie what cannot bee made in Oile may bee brought home in Blubber and the Finnes will arise to good profit Another hinderance may bee because the bottome of the Sounds will not be so soone cleere as would be wished by meanes thereof now and then a Whale may be lost the same case sometime chanceth in Greenland yet I am perswaded those Sounds before named will all be cleere before the twentieth of Iuly for we this yeere were in Whale Sound the fourth day among many Whales and might haue strooke them without let of Ice Furthermore there is little wood to bee expected either for fire or other necessaries therefore Coles and other such things must bee prouided at home they will bee so much the readier there Thus much I thought good to certifie your Worship wherein I trust you will conceiue that much time hath not beene spent in vaine or the businesse ouer carelesly neglected and although wee haue not performed what we desired that is to haue found the passage yet what wee promised as to bring certaintie and a true description truth will make manifest that I haue not much erred And I dare boldly say without boasting that more good discouerie hath not in shorter time to my remembrance beene done since the action was attempted considering how much Ice we haue passed and the difficultie of sayling so neere the Pole vpon a trauerse and aboue all the variation of the Compasse whose wonderfull operation is such in this Bay increasing and decreasing so suddenly and swift being in some part as in Wostenholme Sound and in Sir Tho. Smiths Sound varied aboue fiue Points or 56. degrees a thing almost incredible and matchlesse in all the world beside so that without great care and good obseruations a true description could not haue beene had In fine whatsoeuer my labours are or shall be I esteeme them too little to expresse my thankefull minde for your many fauours wherein I shall be euer studious to supply my other wants by my best endeuours and euer rest at Your Worships command WILLIAM BAFFIN A briefe and true Relation or Iournall contayning such accidents as happened in the fift voyage for the discouerie of a passage to the North-west set forth at the charges of the right Worshipfull Sir Tho. Smith Knight Sir Dudly Digges Knight Master Iohn Wostenholme Esquire Master Alderman Iones with others in the good ship called the Discouerie of London Robert Bileth Master and my selfe Pilot performed in the yeere of our Lord 1616. IN the Name of God Amen The forenamed ship being in full readinesse vpon the twentie sixe of March we set saile at Grauesend being in number seuenteene persons hauing very faire weather which continued till the second of April by that time we were off Portland then the winde comming Westward with foule weather we kept Sea till the fourth day then being not able to fetch Plimouth bore roome for Dartmouth where wee stayed eleuen dayes in which time was much foule weather and westerly windes The fifteenth day of Aprill being cleere of Dartmouth we were forced the next day to put into Plimouth The nineteenth day we set saile from thence and the twentieth in the morning we past betweene the Lands end and Silly with a faire winde Continuing our course as in the briefe Table or Iournall is set downe with euery particular from noone to noone that here I need not make a tedious repetition nothing worthy of note hapning but that we had a good passage and the first Land we saw was in Fretum Dauis on the coast of Groinland in the latitude of 65. degrees 20. minutes On the fourteenth of May in the forenoone then sixe of the people being a fishing came to vs to whom we gaue small pieces of Iron they keeping vs companie being very ioyfull supposing wee had intended to come to anchor but when they saw vs stand off from shoare they followed vs a while and then went away discontented to our seeming We prosecuting our Voyage were loth to come to anchor as yet although the winde was contrarie but still plyed to the Northward vntill we came into 70. degrees 20. minutes then wee came to anchor in a faire Sound neere the place Master Dauis called London Coast. The twentieth of May at euening the people espying vs fled away in their Boates getting on Rocks wondring and gasing at vs but after this night we saw them no more leauing many Dogs running to and fro on the Iland At this place we stayed two dayes in which time wee tooke in fresh water and other necessaries here we had some dislike of the passage because the Tydes are so small as not arising aboue eight or nine foot and keepe no certaine course but the neerest time of high water on the change day is at a quarter of an houre past nine and the Flood commeth from the South The two and twentieth day at a North Sunne wee set saile and plyed still Northward the winde being right against vs as we stood off and on Vpon the sixe and twentieth day in the afternoone we found a dead Whale about sixe and twentie leagues from shoare hauing all her finnes Then making our ship fast wee vsed the best meanes wee could to get them and with much toile got a hundred and sixtie that euening The next morning the Sea went very high and the winde arising the Whale broke from vs and we were forced to leaue her and set saile and hauing not stood past three or foure leagues North-westward came to the Ice then wee tacked and stood to the shoare-ward a sore storme ensued By the thirtieth day in the afternoone wee came faire by Hope Sanderson the farthest Land Master Dauis was at lying betweene 72. and 73. degrees and that euening by a North Sunne we came to much Ice which we put into plying all the next day to get through it The first of Iune we were cleere of the Ice before named and not farre from shoare the winde blowing very hard at North North-east then we put in among diuers Ilands the people seeing vs fled away in all haste leauing their Tents behinde and vpon a small Rocke they hid two young Maides or Women Our ship riding not farre off we espyed them to whom our Master with some other of our companie went in the Boate they making signes to be carried to the Iland where their Tents were close adioyning When they came thither they found two old women more the one very old to our esteemation little lesse then fourescore the other not so old The next time we went on shoare there was another Woman with a child at her back who had hid
Turkish add other Letters and not onely the transcript from their languages As for translations and collections thou hast them here also out of the Hebrew Auncient and Moderne Greeke Abassine Tartarian Russian Polonian Aegyptian and innumerable other Nations Christian Iewish Mahumetan Ethnike Ciuill Barbarian and Sauage innumerable wayes diuersified Yet all these in letters or characters In hieroglyphicall mysticall pictures the ancient Aegyptians and Ethiopians haue by way of Emblemes obscurely and darkly deliuered their obscure mysteries vncertaine waxenly pliant conceits to the world some of which our Pilgrimage hath mentioned But a Historie yea a Politicke Ethike Ecclesiastike Oeconomike History with iust distinctions of times places acts and arts we haue neither seene of theirs nor of any other Nation but of this which our light and slight apprehensions terme not barbarous alone but wilde and sauage Such an one we here present a present thought fit for him whom the senders esteemed the greatest of Princes and yet now presented to thy hands before it could arriue in his presence For the Spanish Gouernour hauing with some difficultie as the Spanish Preface imports obtained the Booke of the Indians with Mexican interpretations of the Pictures but ten daies before the departure of the Ships committed the same to one skilfull in the Mexican language to be interpreted who in a very plaine stile and verbatim performed the same vsing also some Morisco words as Alâ—aqui and Mezquitas for Priest and Temples import This Historie thus written sent to Charles the fifth Emperour was together with the Shippe that carried it taken by Fâ—enchmen of war from whom Andrew Theuet the French Kings Geographer obtained the same after whose death Master Hakluyt then Chaplaine to the English Embassadour in France bought the same for 20. French crownes and procured Master Michael Locke in Sir Walter Raleighs name to translate it It seemes that none were willing to be at the cost of cutting the Pictures and so it remained amongst his papers till his death whereby according to his last will in that kinde I became possessour thereof and haue obtained with much earnestnesse the cutting thereof for the Presse The rather was I eagerly vehement herein as being a thing desired by that most industrious Antiquary iudicious Scholler Religious Gentleman our Ecclesiastike Secular the Churches champion Sir Henry Spelman Knight whom for honors sake I name that his name may honour our ruder lines a name so fitting to the Man as one which â—an in regard of his wise spell and science in diuine humane learning and is ready with maine courage and alacritie to shew himselfe the Churches Man and to exhibit himselfe in deede whatsoeuer any man can spell out of Spel-man The commending from such a friend let the Muses impetrate pardon for so bold a name was a commanding vnto me which here I againe commend to Him and thee It is diuided into three parts the first being the Annales and Mexican Chronicle the second their Exchequer or the Accounts of their seuerall Tributes paid them from the Nations and peoples tributary whereby may be seene the Naturall riches of those parts peculiarly sorted the third the Mexican Oeconomie and Policie in warre and peace religious and secular their priuate and publike rites from the graue of the wombe to the wombe of the graue Obscure places I haue explained besides what before in Acosta thou hast read comparing the translation with the originall adding many of mine owne and perhaps there is not any one History of this kinde in the world comparable to this so fully expressing so much without Letters hardly gotten and easily lost that thou maist here finde it CHAP. VII The History of the Mexican Nation described in pictures by the Mexican Author explained in the Mexican language which exposition translated into Spanish and thence into English together with the said Picture-historie are here presented §. I. The Mexican Chronicle HEre beginneth the Historie and foundation of the Citie of Mexico founded and inhabited by the Mexicans who at that time were called Meçiti whose originall beginning of being Lords and their acts and liues are declared briefely in this Historie according as it is signified and set out successiuely by the pictures and paintings following In the yeare 1324. after the comming of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ the Mexican people first arriued at the place of the Citie of Mexico and because they liked well the greatnesse and the scituation of that place after that they had trauailed in their Iournies and wandered many yeares from Country to Countrey in some of them had made their abode for some yeares being come from far Countries in following their Iournies and not being contented with the other places where they had made their abode they came and setled themselues in the place of Mexico The which place at that time was all drowned with water and was couered with great bogs and bankes of moorish shegs and bulrushes which they call Tuli and it had Carrizales and great plats of dry ground couered with shrubbes bushes and briars like woods And through all the space of that place there went a spring streame of fair cleere water which was free from all segges and bushes which water streame went through it crossewise in manner of Saint Andrewes crosse as it is shewed in the picture and about the middle of that place of that water-streame the Meçiti found a great rocke of stone and growing thereon a great Tree or bush called Tunal wherein a great Eagle Candal had her haunt and abode for her foode so as all about that place was scattered full of bones and feathers of diuers Birds and Foules of diuers colours And they hauing gone throughout all that place and Countrie thereabout and finding it very fruitfull and full of wilde beasts wilde Foules Birds and Fishes and things of the water wherewith to sustaine themselues and to profit themselues in their businesse in dealing with the Townes thereabouts and finding the water-courses of that place so commodious and that their Neighbours could not trouble nor hurt them and for other things and causes to their good liking they determined to passe no further on their iourneyes in trauelling but to settle themselues and dwell still And according to their determination they did settle themselues there effectually And made themselues a strong Citie of defence with bankes and walles about the waters and on the plats of ground among the â—egges and Bushes of Tulis and Carrizales And for a beginning of that their seate and habitation it was determined by them to giue name and title to that place calling it Tenultitlan By reason and cause of the Tunal growing out of the Rocke for Tenuchtitlan interpreted in our Castilian Spanish Tongue is Tunal growing vpon a Rocke The armie of the Mexican people had with them for chiefe Gouernours ten persons named Ocelopan Quapan Acacitli Ahuexolt Teâ—uch Tâ—cincuh 〈◊〉 Xocoyol Xuihcaqui Atototl as it is
Varieties of their tempers and tasts 932.50 Lambri a Kingdome of Iaua 104.1 Lamps before Tombes in China 265 266.1 Land in 73. degrees Noâ—th not mentioned in any Sea Card 568.40 Called Hold with Hope ibid. A temperate land ibid. The Sun is long together aboue the Horizon there 569.20 Lands set apart for sacred vses in Peru 1056.60 Lands in Pâ—ru how the profits are distributed according to each mans necessity 1057.30 Langa and Solanga a Tartarian people 23.20 Their habits ibid. Langenes in Noua Zembla 474 30. 513 1 Land-lords Iudges ouer their Tenants 216.40 Language of China discoursed vpon 384 Language and writing the same through all China 101.50 Language of Island is the pure old Goâ—ish or Nâ—rwegian 658.1 Languages forty seuerall ones spoken in so many Castles in Kersoua 2 Languages diuers in Persian Prouinces 74 Language of Russia different from the Polish 761.30 Laos Siones Maons a great Kingdome where 168.20 Hath Muâ—ke and Gold ibid. Their complexion and habit ibid. A mighty Riuer amongst them a wonder of that 169.1 10 Lipland the length and breadth 443.50 It hath two sorts of people ibid. To whom subiect Their poore liuing some are wild and the greatest witches in the world 444. Excellent Bowmen and Gunners their Commodities and Faires 444.1.10.223.20 Laplanders their miserable liuing 516.1 Their swiftnesse 517.30 Laque a Perfume in China 196.1 Latitudes which the Spanish Fleets obserue in going and comming to the West Indies 924. See Courses and Nauigations Laua Riuer in Russia his mouth and fall into the Lake Lodiga 794 40 Laulo the Iland 307.50 Lautimey in China fired by the Tartars 278.40 Law of Nature the Iesuits hope that the Chinois were saued by it 396.60 Law altogether studied in China 185.20 Lawes made by Kings in China 387.40 Law-sutes in China most about their Buriall places 368.50 Lawes of Island some rehearsed 666.667 c. Lawes in Russia 435.20 None written but all speaking Lawes ibid. 216. 217 Lawes of the Tartars 443.1 Lawyer none may plead in the West Indies where his Kinsman is Iudge 913 Lawyers bribes taken and giuen to honest men 276 Lawyers forbidden to goe to the Spanish Indies and why 998.30 Lawing of the Russes the order 433.40 Their seuerall Courts and Iudges ibid. Lawing vnknowne to the Tartars 639.1 Saint Lawrence in Canada discouered 463 Saint Lawrence Bay 477.20 The latitude ibid. Lâ—uzu a China Sect 398.40 Their Legends and Fooleries their Paradice ibid. Lay-Commissaries to Bishops in Russia appointed by the Emperour 446 40. They ouer-rule the Clergie ibid. Lead Myne in Cherry Iland 558 50. 564 Leafe in India that heales a broken Arme prâ—sently 986.40 Learning only giues Wealth Honour and Nobility in China 367.40 Learning feared by Tyrants 447 30 Leaue-rites in Curland 628.10 Lechias a rare Fruit in China 178 50 Left-hand most honourable where 373.20 Left-hand noâ— vsed to touch their meate with it where 105.1 Legends and Prophesies the effects of them 1021 Legend of Huiunsuns killing the Dragon and flying into Heauen 337.20 Legend of Leus 398.40 Legges Armes heads c. Offered by sicke Men to their Idols 271.1 Lent-time to the people of the East 34 20 Lent the Armenians and Nestorians eate no fish in Lent 35 20 Lents foure in a yeare 217.60 227. They begin on Munday the endings of all foure 218.1 No flesh nor White-meates eaten in Lent 218 Lents foure in Russia and when and how 456 Leopards vsed like Hounds 80.50 Leprous people are Toll-gatherers in Tartary 10.50 Lequios Ilands by Iapan and China rich in Gold c. 906.50 See Lucaios Lesgi a Tartarian people 12.50 Their border 16 10 Letany of the Tartars for their Prince 85.10 Letters of the Islanders 646.30 Letters of Demetrius of Russia to the Nobility 752. Of him to the English Agent 758.20 Letters of Mexico their manner 1135.10 Letters of Almeida to Eâ— Sand 330.40 Of Longobard and Taiso 343.40.344 Of Pantoia to Luys de Guzman 350 Letters of the Visitor of Concheo in China to the Gouernour of the Philippinaes 309. The answere to them 310. Of Ierome Xauiere 310.50 Letters of the Russian Emperour 221 Letter of the Duke of Brabant concerning the Tartars 60.50 And of the Emperour to the King of England 61.30 Letters of the Tartarians to the French King 45.50 To the Pope 59.30 Of one Tartarian Prince to another 59.50 Letters the West Indians ignorance of them they thought the Spaniards Packets of Letters could speake 994.50 Letters about businesse of Greenland fishing 731.732.733.734.735.736.737 Letters vnknowne to the West Indies 1051.40 Letter of Sir Humphrey Gilbert from New-found-land 808.50 Of Iohn Rut a Mariner to King Henry the Eighth 809. Of Albert de Prato to Cardinall Wolsey 809. Of William Baffin to Master Wostenholme 843 Letters of Master Locke to a Greeke Pilot and their answers 851 Letters of Suiskey Emperour of Russia to our King Iames 765 Of English Merchants concerning Russian troubles 780. Of Doctor Hall 781 Letters of Xauier the Iesuite 318.10 Of the King of Bungo to the Pope 322.30 Of the King of Arima to the Pope 323.20 Of the Iaponian Tyrant to the Spanish Viceroy 324 Lettow is Lithuania 624.50 Leuca Iland where 633.10 Leuconia where 53.40 Lewfoot Ilands 212.10 222.50 Lewis in Orkney 827.40 Lezards are Crocodiles Liampeo where 190.50 Liampoo a Portugall Towne in China raced by the Chinois 259.50 Libanus inhabited by Christians 122.20 Lice sold for meate in Mexico 1133.10 Lice eating men to the bones 614.40 Lice forsake Saylers and finde them againe comming to the same place 975 Licence written on a board 292.20.299.20 Licotice where described 233.1 Liefland how diuided betwixt the Russe the Sweden and the Pole 627.60 Light-Dogge of the Indies his strange heauinesse described 966.50 Sings musically 978.50.60 Lignum Aloes where it growes 102.60 103.10 Lignum Guacum or Sanctum the vse and where it growes 938.10 Lignum Sanctum better for the French Poxe then Guyacum 998.30 Lignum vitae or Guayac whence brought 959.60 See Guacum Life much studied in China 369.20 Lying in China is prudence 339.10 Lima Citie in Peru. See Los Reyes Limahon a Chinese Pirate 286.50 His Storie 287. A mighty Fleete made out against him ibid. How hee came to the Philippinaes ibid. Goes to surprise the Spaniards there ibid. Comes before Manilla 288.1 Burnes the Citie ibid. Seates himselfe on the Riuer Pangasinan and erects a Fort ibid. 40. The Spaniards ioyne against him ibid. They set vpon him at two seuerall places 289. Heâ— flees to his Fort they besiege him three Moneths ibid. His fiue Stratagem to escape 289.30 308.30 Omoncon the Chinese comes with Commission to take him ibid. Lime and Stone built withall in China 292.10 Lincin in China 352.60 Linna or the Frier of Linne his Story 624 Linnen and â—â—perie of the Cotton-tree 1132.40 Lions taught to Hunt like Hounds 85.20 And Leopards and Wolues ibid. The maâ—er of it ibid. Lions how slaine 94 40.50 Lions
seuerall sorts of Whales with the manner of killing them Whereto is added the description of Greenland p. 470. The description of Greenland pag. 472. CHAP. III. The first Nauigation of William Barents alias Bernards into the North Seas Written by Gerart de Veer pag. 473. CHAP. IIII. A briefe declaration of Barents his second Nauigation made in Anno 1595. behind Norway Muscouia and Tartaria written by Gerart de Veer pag. 478. Chap. V. The third voyage Northward to the Kingdoms of Cathaia and China in Anno 1596. Written by Gerart de Veer pag. 482. § 1. What happened to them at Sea before they came to build their House ibid. § 2. Their cold comfortlesse darke and dreadfull winter the Sunnes absence Moones light Sunnes vnexpected returne with miraculous speed Of Beares Foxes and many many wonders p. 492. § 3. Their preparation to goe from thence they depart in a Boat and Scute both open and come to Cola 1143. miles Their many dangers by Beares Ice Famine Scorbute in the way pag. 505. This was written by William Barentson in a loose Paper which was lent mee by the Reuerend Peter Plantius in Amsterdam March the seuen and twentieth 1609. pag. 518. CHAP. VI. A Treatise of Iuer Boty a Gronlander translated out of the North language into High Dutch H. ibid. The Course from Island to Groneland p. 520. CHAP. VII A description of the Countries of Siberia Samoieda and Tingoesia Together with the Iourneyes leading vnto the same Countries toward the East and North-east as they are daily frequented by the Moscouites pag. 522. § 1. Discouerie of Siberia and the subiecting of the same to the Russes ibid. § 2. A briefe description of the Wayes and Riuers leading out of Moscouia toward the East and North-east into Siberia Samoiedia and Tingoesia as they are daily frequented by the Russes with further discoueries towards Tartaria and China pag. 525. § 3. A Note of the trauels of the Russes ouer Land and by water from Mezen neere the Bay of Saint Nicholas to Pechora to Obi to Yenisse and to the Riuer Geta euen vnto the Frontiers of Cataia brought into England by Master Iohn Mericke the English Agent for Moscouie and translated out of the Russe by Richard Finch H. pag. 530. CHAP. VIII A voyage made to Pechora 1611. Written by William Gourdon of Hull appointed chiefe Pilot for discouerie to Ob c. H. ibid. CHAP. IX A Letter of Richard Finch to the Right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Smith Gouernour and to the rest of the Worshipfull Companie of English Merchants trading into Russia touching the former voyage and other obseruations H. pag. 534. The names of the places that the Russes sayle by from Pechorskoie Zauorot to Mongozey with the manner of their trauell and distance betweene each place or time of Sayling Halling and Rowing vnto the same pag. 539. CHAP. X. The Voyage of Master Iosias Logan to Pechora and his wintering there with Master William Pursglone and Marmaduke Wilson Anno 1611. H. pag. 541. Extracts taken out of two Letters of Iosias Logan from Pechora to Master Hakluyt Prebend of Westminster pag. 546. CHAP. XI A briefe relation of a Voyage to Pechora and wintering there began in the yeere 1611. Written by William Pursglone H. pag. 547. Other obseruations of the said William Pursglone pag. 550. The trauell from Pechora to Permia Ougoria and to the Riuer Ob and the Townes situated thereupon ouer Land pag. 551. Commodities for Pechora Siberia Permia Ougoria and among the Tingussies pag. 552. Commodities for the Tingussies ibid. CHAP. XII Later obseruations of William Gourdon in his wintering at Pustozera in the yeeres 1614. and 1615. with a description of the Samoyeds life H. pag. 553. CHAP. XIII Diuers Voyages to Cherie Iland in the yeeres 1604 1605 1606 1608 1609. Written by Ionas Poole H. pag. 556. CHAP. XIIII Diuers Voyages and Northerne discoueries of that worthy irrecouerable Discouerer Master Henrie Hudson His Discouerie toward the North Pole set forth at the charge of certaine Worshipfull Merchants of London in May 1607. Written partly by Iohn Playse one of the Companie and partly by H. Hudson H. pag. 567. CHAP. XV. A second voyage or employment of Master Henrie Hudson for finding a passage to the East Indies by the North-east written by himselfe H. pag. 574. CHAP. XVI The third voyage of Master Henrie Hudson toward Noua Zembla and at his returne his passing from Farre Ilands to New-found-Land and along to fortie foure degrees and ten minutes and thence to Cape Cod and so to thirtie three degrees and along the Coast to the Northward to fortie two degrees and an halfe and vp the Riuer neere to fortie three degrees Written by Robert Iuâ—t of Lime-house H. pag. 581. CHAP. XVII An Abstract of the Iournall of Master Henrie Hudson for the discouerie of the North-west passage begun the 17. of Aprill 1610. ended with his end being treacherously exposed by some of the Companie H. pag. 596. A larger discourse of the same voyage and the successe thereof written by Abacuk Pricket pag. 597. A Note found in the Deske of Thomas Widhouse Student in the Mathematikes he being one of them who was put into the Shallop pag. 609. CHAP. XVIII The discoueries of M. M. Nicolo and Antonio Zeni gathered out of their Letters by Francisco Marcolino whereto is added Quirino his shipwracke H. P. pag. 610. The shipwracke of Master Piero Quirino described by Christophoro Fiorauanti and Nicolo di Michiel who were present there here contracted H. P. pag. 611. CHAP. XIX Ancient commerce betwixt England and Norway and other Northerne Regions pag. 619. CHAP. XX. A briefe Memoriall of the great trauels by Sea and Land of Master George Barkley Merchant of London in Europe Asia Africa and America and their Ilands pag. 625. CHAP. XXI Collections out of Martin Broniouius de Biezerfedea sent Ambassadour from Stephen King of Poland to the Crim Tartar Contayning a description of Tartaria or Chersonesus Taurica and the Regions subiect to the Perecop or Crim Tartars with their Customes priuate and publike in peace and warre pag. 632. CHAP. XXII Dithmar Blefkens his Voyages and History of Island and Groenland pag. 643. Of the Islanders Religion pag. 645. The Life and Manners of the Islanders ibid. Of the wonderfull standing Pooles Lakes and Fountaines in Island pag. 647. Of the wonderfull Mountaines in Island pag. 648. Of the Riches of the Islanders pag. 649. Of the Iudgement of the Islanders pag. 650. Of Groneland pag. 651. CHAP. XXIII Extracts of Arngrim Ionas an Islander his Chrymogaea or History of Island published Anno Dom. 1609. H. P. pag. 654. § 1. Of Island the Situation Discouerie Plantation and Language ibid. § 2. A discourse of the first Inhabitants of the Northerne World supposed to be Giants expelled from Canaan Of the Islanders Houses Fewell Victuall pag. 659. § 3. Of their Politic and Religion in old times pag. 664 The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the fourth Booke
of the Second part of Purchas his PILGRIMS CHAP. I. A Voyage set forth by the Right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Smith and the rest of the Muscouie Company to Cherry Iland and for a further Discouerie to bee made towards the North-Pole for the likelihood of a Trade or a passage that way in a Ship called the Amitie of burthen seuentie tunnes in the which I Ionas Poole was Master hauhauing foureteene Men and one Boy Anno Dom. 1610. H. pag. 699. A briefe note what Beasts Fowles and Fishes were seene in this land pag. 707. CHAP. II. A Commission for Ionas Poole our Seruant appointed Master of a small Barke called the Elizabeth of fiftie tunnes burthen for Discouery to the Northward of Greeneland giuen the last day of May 1610. H. P. ibid. CHAP. III. A briefe Declaration of this my Voyage of Discouery to Greeneland and towards the West of it as followeth being set forth by the right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Smith Gouernour of the right Worshipfull Company of new Trades c. written by Ionas Poole H. pag. 711. CHAP. IIII. A Relation written by Ionas Poole of a Voyage to Greeneland in the yeere 1612. with two Shippes the one called the Whale the other the Sea-horse set out by the right Worshipfull the Muscouie Merchants H. pag. 713. CHAP. V. A Iournall of the Voyage made to Greeneland with sixe English Shippes and a Pinnasse in the yeere 1613. written by Master William Baffin H.P. pag. 716. CHAP. VI. A Voyage of Discouery to Greeneland c. An. 161â— written by Ro. Fotherbye H.P. pag. 720. CHAP. VII A true report of a Voyage Anno 1615. for Discouerie of Seas Lands and Ilands to the Northwards as it was performed by Robert Fotherbie in a Pinnasse of twenty tunnes called the Richerd of London H.P. pag. 728. A Letter of Robert Fotherby to Captain Edge written in Crosse-rode Iuly 15. 1615. pag. 731. CHAP. VIII Diuers other Voyages to Greenland with Letters of those which were there employed communicated to me by Master William Heley in the yeere 1617. 1618. 1619. 1620. 1621. 1623. pag. 732. A Letter of Master Robert Salmon to Master Sherwin In Sir Thomas Smiths Bay the 24. of Iune 1618. pag 733. A Letter of Master Th. Sherwin Bell-sound this â—9 of Iune 1618. â—bid A Letter of Iames Beuersham to Master Heley From Faire-hauen the 12. of Iuly 1618. ibid. A Letter of Iohn Chambers to W. Heley Bel-sound Iune 16. 1619. pag. 734. A Letter of I. Catcher to Master Heley from Faire-hauen Laus Deo this seuenteenth of Iune 1620. pag. 735. A Letter of Robert Salmon from Sir Thomas Smiths Bay Iuly 6. 1621. ibid. Laus Deo in Faire-Hauen the foure and twentieth of Iune 1623. pag. 736. Master Catchers Letter the nine and twentieth of Iune 1623. pag. 737. Captaine William Goodlards Letter â— Bel-sound this eight of Iuly 1623. ibid. CHAP. IX The late changes and manifold alterations in Russia since Iuan Vasilowich to this present gathered out of many Letters and Obseruations of English Embassadours and other Trauellers in those parts pag. 738. § 1. Of the reigne of Iuan Pheodore his sonne and of Boris ibid. The most solemne and magnificent coronation of Pheodor Iuanowich Emperour of Russia c. the tenth of Iune in the yeere 1â—84 seene and obserued by Master Ierom Horsey Gentleman and seruant to her Maiestie pag. 740. § 2. Occurrents of principall Note which happened in Russia in the time while the Honorable Sir Thomas Smith remained there Embassadour from his Maiestie pag. 748. § 3. One pretending himselfe to be Demetrius with the Popes and Poles helpes attaineth the Russian Empire his Arts Acts Mariage fauour to the English and miserable end pag. 755. The Copie of a Letter sent from the Emperor Demetry Euanowich otherwise called Grishco Otreapyoue pag. 758. The Copie of the translation of a Commission that was sent from the Mosko from the Emperour Demetry Euanowich alias Gryshca Otreapyoue by a Courtier named Gauaryla Samoylowich Salmanoue who was sent downe to the Castle of Archangell to Sir Thomas Smith then Lord Embassadour pag. 759. The Copie of the Translation of a new Priuiledge that was giuen to the Company by the Emperour Demetry Euanowich otherwise called Gryshca Otreapyoue the which Priuiledge was sent into England ouer-land by Olyuer Lysset Merchant and seruant to the foresaid Company ibid. The Copie of the translation of a Contract made by the Emperour Demetry Euanowich otherwise called Gryscha Otreapyoue and the daughter of the Palatine Sendamersko chiefe Generall of Poland pag. 761. § 4. The Copie of the Translation of a Letter sent from the new Emperour Vassily Euanowich Shoskey to the Kings Maiesty by Master Iohn Mericke pag. 765. Captaine Margarets Letter to Master Mericke from Hamborough Ian. 29. 1612. pag. 780. § 5. Of the miserable estate of Russia after Swiskeys deportation their election of the King of Polands Sonne their Interregnum and popular estate and choosing at last of the present Emperour with some remarkeable accidents in his time H.P. pag. 782. Pacta inter Primarium Ducem Exercituum Regni Poloniae inter Heroes Moscouiae pag. 783. CHAP. X. A briefe Copie of the points of the Contracts betweene the Emperours Maiestie and the Kings Maiestie of Sweden in Stolboua the seuen and twentieth of February 1616. pag. 792. CHAP. XI A Relation of two Russe Cossacks trauailes out of Siberia to Catay and other Countries adioyning thereunto Also a Copie of the last Patent from the Muscouite A Copie of a Letter written to the Emperour from his Gouernours out of Siberia pag. 797. The Copie of the Altine Chars or golden Kings Letter to the Emperour of Russia ibid. A Description of the Empires of Catay and Labin and other Dominions as well inhabited as places of Pasture called Vlusses and Hords and of the great Riuer Ob and other Riuers and Land passages pag. 799. CHAP. XII Notes concerning the discouery of the Riuer of Ob taken out of a Roll written in the Russian tongue which was attempted by the meanes of Antonie Marsh a chiefe Factor for the Moscouie Company of England 1584 with other notes of the North-east H. pag. 804. The report of Master Francis Cherry a Moscouie Merchant and Master Thomas Lyndes touching a warme Sea to the South-east of the Riuer Ob and a Note of Francis Gaulle H.P. p. 806. CHAP. XIII Discoueries made by Englishmen to the North-west Voyages of Sir Sebastian Cabot Master Thorne and other Ancients and Master Weymouth H.P. ibid. The Voyage of Captaine George Weymouth intended for the discouery of the North-west Passag toward China with two flye Boates. pag. 809. CHAP. XIV Iames Hall his Voyage forth of Denmarke for the discouery of Greenland in the yeere 1605. abbreuiated H. pag. 814. CHAP. XV. The second Voyage of Master Iames Hall forth of Denmarke into Greeneland in the yeere 1606. contracted H. pag. 821. CHAP. XVI The Voyage of Master Iohn Knight which had beene at Greeneland once
Mexico dated in the moneth of December 1591. With a Letter added written 1605. of later Discoueries H. pag. 1562. A Letter written from Valladolid by Ludouicus Tribaldus Toletus to Master Richard Hakluyt translated out of Latine touching Iuan de Onate his Discoueries in New Mexico fiue hundred leagues to the North from the Old Mexico H. pag. 1565. The Prologue of the Bishop Frier Bartholomew de las Casas or Casaus to the most high and mightie Prince Our Lord Don Philip Prince of Spaine pag 1568. CHAP. IIII. A briefe Narration of the destruction of the Indies by the Spaniards written by a Frier Bartholmew de las Casas a Spaniard and Bishop of Chiapa in America pag. 1569. Of the I le of Hispaniola pag. 1570. Of the two Iles Saint Iohn Iamayca pag. 1573 Of the I le of Cuba ibid. Of Terra Firma or the firme Land pag. 1575 Of the Prouince of Nicaragua pag. 1576. Of New Spaine pag. 1577. Of the Prouince and Realme of Guatimala pag. 1579. Of New Spaine and Panuco and Xalisco pag. 1580. Of the Realme of Yucatan pag. 1581. Of the Prouince of Saint Martha pag. 1583. Of the Prouince of Carthagene pag. 1584. Of the Coast of Pearles and of Paria and of the I le of the Trinitie ibid. Of the Riuer Yuia pari pag. 1587. Of the Realme of Venesuela ibid. Of the Prouinces of the firme Land or quarter that is called Florida pag. 1589. Of the Riuer of La plata ibid. Of the mightie Realmes and large Prouinces of Peru. ibid. Of the new Realme of Granado pag. 1591. Part of a Letter written by one which saw things mentioned pag. 1596. The summe of the Disputation betweene Frier Bartholomew de las Casas or Casaus and Doctor Sepulueda pag. 1601. CHAP. V. Notes of Voyages and Plantations of the French in the Northerne America both in Florida and Canada pag. 1603. CHAP. VI. The Voyage of Samuel Champlaine of Brouage made vnto Canada in the yeere 1603. dedicated to Charles de Montmorencie c. High Admirall of France H. pag. 1605 CHAP. VII The Patent of the French King to Monsieur de Monts for the Inhabiting of the Countries of La Cadia Canada and other places in New France pag. 1619. The Voyage of Monsieur de Monts into New France written by Marke Lescarbot pag. 1620. CHAP. VIII Collections out of a French Booke called Additions to Noua Francia contayning the Accidents there from the yeere 1607. to 1611. pag. 1642. CHAP. IX The first Plantation of English Colonies in Virginia briefly mentioned pag. 1645. CHAP. X. The Relation of Captaine Gosnols Voyage to the North part of Virginia begun the six and twentieth of March Anno 42. Elizabethae Reginae 16â—2 and deliuered by Gabriel Archer a Gentleman in the said Voyage H. pag. 1647. CHAP. XI Notes of the same Voyage taken out of a Tractate written by Iames Rosier to Sir Walter Raileigh and of Maces Voyage to Virginia pag. 1651. CHAP. XII A Voyage set out from the Citie of Bristoll at the charge of the chiefest Merchants and Inhabitants of of the said Citie with a small Ship and a Barke for the Discouery of the North part of Virginia in the yeere 1603. vnder the command of mee Martin Pringe H. pag. 1654. A Relation of the voyage made to Virginia in the Elizabeth of London a Barke of fiftie tunnes by Captaine Bartholmew Gilbert in the yeere 1603. Written by Master Thomas Canner a Gentleman of Barnards Inne his Companion in the same Voyage H. pag. 1656. CHAP. XIII Extracts of a Virginian Voyage made An. 1604. by Captaine George Waymouth in the Archangell Set foorth by the Right Honourable Henrie Earle of South-hampton and the Lord Thomas Arundel written by Iames Rosier H.P. pag. 1659 CHAP. XIIII The description of the Ilands of Azores or the Flemish Ilands taken out of Linschoten with certaine occurrents and English acts pag. 1667. Of certaine notable and memorable Accidents that happened during my continuance in Tercera in which are related many English Fleets Sea-fights and Prizes pag. 1672. The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the Ninth Booke of the Second part of Purchas his PILGRIMS CHAP. I. PArt of the first Patent granted by his Maiestie for the Plantation of Virginia Aprill the tenth 1606. pag. 1683. CHAP. II. Obseruations gathered out of a Discourse of the Plantation of the Southerne Colonie in Virginia by the English 1606. Written by that Honorable Gentleman Master George Percy H. pag. 1684 CHAP. III. The Description of Virginia by Captaine Iohn Smith inlarged out of his written Notes pag. 1691. Of such things which are naturall in Virginia and how they vse them pag. 1694. Of their planted Fruits in Virginia and how they vse them pag. 1696. Of the naturall Inhabitants of Virginia and their Customes pag. 1697. Of their Religion pag. 1701. Of the manner of the Virginians Gouernment pag. 1703. CHAP. IIII. The proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia taken faithfully out of the writings of Thomas Studley Cape-Merchant Anas Todkill Doctor Russell Nathaniel Powell William Phetiplace and Richard Pot Richard Wiffin Tho. Abbay Tho. Hope and since enlarged out of the Writings of Captaine Iohn Smith principall Agent and Patient in these Virginian Occurrents from the beginning of the Plantation 1606. till Anno 1610. somewhat abbreuiated pag. 1705. The Proceedings and Accidents with the second suppy pag. 1719. CHAP. V. A Letter of Master Gabriel Archer touching the Voyage of the Fleet of Ships which arriued at Virginia without Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Summers 1609. H. pag. 1733. CHAP. VI. A true reportorie of the wracke and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight vpon and from the Ilands of the Bermudas his comming to Virginia and the estate of that Colonie then and after vnder the Gouernment of the Lord La Warre Iuly 15. 1610. written by Wil. Strachy Esq H. p. 1734 § 1. A most dreadfull Tempest the manifold deaths whereof are heere to the life described their Wracke on Bermuda and the description of those Ilands pag. 1734. § 2. Actions and Occurrents whiles they continued in the Ilands Rauens sent for Virginia Diuers Mutinies Paine executed Two Pinnaces built pag. 1742. § 3. Their departure from Bermuda and arriuall in Virginia Miseries there departure and returne vpon the Lord La Warres arriuing Iames Towne described pag. 1747. § 4. The Lord La Warres beginnings and proceedings in Iames Towne Sir Thomas Gates sent into England his and the Companies testimony of Virginia and cause of the late miseries pag. 1754. CHAP. VII The Voyage of Captaine Samuell Argal from Iames Towne in Virginia to seeke the I le of Bermuda and missing the same his putting ouer toward Sagadahoc and Cape Cod and so backe againe to Iames Towne begun the nineteenth of Iune 1610. H. pag. 1758. CHAP. VIII A short Relation made by the Lord De la Warre to the Lords and others of the Counsell of Virginia touching his vnexpected returne home and
afterwards deliuered to the generall Assembly of the said Companie at a Court holden the 25. of Iune 1611. Published by authority of the said Counsell pag. 176â— CHAP. IX A Letter of Sir Samuell Argoll touching his Voyage to Virginia and Actions there Written to Master Nicholas Hawes Iune 1613. H. p. 1764. CHAP. X. Notes of Virginian Affaires in the gouernment of Sir Thomas Dale and of Sir Thomas Gates till Ann. 1614. taken out of Master Ralph Hamor Secretarie to the Colonie his Booke pag. 1766. CHAP. XI A Letter of Sir Thomas Dale and another of Master Whitakers from Iames Towne in Virginia Iune 18. 1614. And a peece of a Tractate written by the said Master Whitakers from Virginia the yeere before pag. 1768. To the R. and my most esteemed friend M. D.M. at his house at F. Ch. in London ibid. Part of a Tractate written at Henrico in Virginia by M. Alexander Whitaker Minister to the Colonie there which then gouerned by Sir Thomas Dale 1613. pag. 1771. CHAP. XII Of the Lotterie Sir Thomas Dales returne the Spaniards in Virginia Of Pocahuntas and Tomocomo Captaine Yerdley and Captaine Argoll both since Knighted their Gouernment the Lord La Warres Death and other occurrents till Anno 1619. pag. 1773. CHAP. XIII The estate of the Colonie Anno 1620. and Master Dermers Letter to me from Virginia touching his Voyage for the South Sea pag. 1775. A Note of the Shipping Men and Prouisions sent to Virginia by the Treasurer and Companie in the yeere 1619. pag. 1776. CHAP. XIIII A true Relation of a Sea-fight betweene two great and well appointed Spanish Ships or Men of Warre and an English ship called the Margaret and Iohn or the Black Hodge going for Virginia pag. 1780 CHAP. XV. Virginian affaires since the yeere 1620. till this present 1624. pag. 1783. § 1. A Note of the shipping Men and prouisions sent and prouided for Virginia by the Right Honourable Henry Earle of South-hampton and the Companie and other priuate Aduenturers in the yeere 1621. c. With other Occurrents then published by the Companie ibid. Ships and People ibid. And for the benefit of the Plantations these things following haue beene here done this yeere ibid. Other Occurrents of note ibid. Gifts pag. 1784. § 2. Newes from Virginia in Letters sent thence 1621. partly published by the Company partly transcribed from the Originals with Letters of his Maiestie and of the Companie touching Silke-workes pag. 1787. His Maiesties gracious Letter to the Earle of South-hampton Tresurer and to the Counsell and Companie of Virginia here commanding the present setting vp of Silke-workes and planting of Vines in Virginia pag. 1787. § 3. The barbarous Massacre committed by the Sauages on the English Planters March the two and twentieth 1621. after the English accompt pag. 1788. § 4. A Note of prouisions necessarie for euery Planter or personall Aduenturer to Virginia and accidents since the Massacre pag. 1719. CHAP. XVI English Voyages to the Summer Ilands Henry Mays Shipwracke there 1593. The first Colony sent 1612. pag. 1793. A Copie of the Articles which Master R. More Gouernour Deputie of the Summer Ilands propounded to the Company that were there with him to be subscribed vnto which both hee and they subscribed the second of August in his House Anno 1612. which about the same time hee sent into England to the Worshipfull Companie of the Aduenturours pag. 1795. CHAP. XVII Relations of Summer Ilands taken out of Master Richard Norwood his Map and Notes added thereto printed 1622. The Historie of the Creatures growing or liuing therein being inlarged out of Captaine Smiths written Relations pag. 1796. CHAP. XVIII Extracts out of Captaine Iohn Smiths Historie of Bermudas or Summer Ilands touching the English acts and occurrents there from the beginning of the Plantation pag. 1801. CHAP. XIX Briefe intelligence from Virginia by Letters a supplement of French-Virginian occurrants and their supplantation by Sir Samuel Argal in right of the English plantation pag. 1â—05 CHAP. XX. Virginias Verger or a discourse shewing the benefits which may grow to this Kingdome from American-English Plantations and specially those of Virginia and Summer Ilands p. 1809. The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the tenth Booke of the Second part of Purchas his PILGRIMS CHAP. I. A Briefe Relation of the discouerie and plantation of New England and of sundrie accidents therein occurring from the yeer of our Lord 1607. to this present 1622. published by the President and Councell and dedicated to the Princes Highnesse here abbreuiated p. 1827. CHAP. II. The voyage of Master Henrie Challons intended for the North plantation of Virginia 1606. taken by the way and ill vsed by Spaniards written by Iohn Stoneman Pilot. H. pag. 1832. CHAP. III. Extracts of a Booke of Captaine Iohn Smith printed 1622. called New Englands trialls and continuing the storie thereof with Motiues to the businesse of fishing there pag. 1837. An Abstract of Letters sent from the Colonie in New England Iuly sixteene 1622. p. 1840. CHAP. IIII. A Relation or Iournall of a plantation setled at Plimoth in New England and proceedings therof printed 1622. and here abbreuiated p. 1842. CHAP. V. Good newes from New England or a relation of things remarkable in that Plantation written by E. Winslow and here abbreuaited pag. 1853. CHAP. VI. Noua Scotia The Kings Paâ—ent to Sir William Alexander Knight for the plantation of New Scotland in America and his proceedings therein with a description of Mawooshen for better knowledge of those parts pag. 1871. The description of the Country of Mawooshen discouered by the English in the yeere 1602.3 5 6 7 8 and 9. H. pag. 1873. CHAP. VII The beginning of the Patent for New-found-land and the plantation there made by the English 1610. deliuered in a Letter dated thence from M. Guy to M. Slany Also of the weather the three first winters and of Captaine Weston with other remarkable occurrents H. pag. 1876. Master Iohn Guy his Letter to Master Slany Treasurer and to the Counsell of the New-found-land plantation pag. 1877. To Master Iohn Slany Treasurer and others of the Councell and Companie of the New-found-land plantation the 29. of Iuly 1612. pag. 1879. CHAP. VIII Captaine Richard Whitbournes voyages to New-found-land and obseruations there and thereof taken out of his printed booke p. 1882. A Relation of New-found-land pag. 1884. CHAP. IX The names of diuers honourable persons and others who haâ—e vndertaken to helpe to aduance his Maiesties plantation in the New-found-land written by the said R. W. with extracts of certaine Letters written from thence pag. 1888. The second Part of the tenth Booke CHAP. X. DIuers warlike Fleets set forth to Seâ— against the Spaniards by our English Debora Queene Elizabeth of glorious memorie Her manifold deliueries and victories pag. 1891. CHAP. XI The Popes Bull the King of Spaines preparations the Duke of Medinas Expedition the Duke of Parmas Forces for the inuasion of England diuers Sea fights twixt
haue made any Voyage that yeere whereby to haue earned their bread Yet it pleased God afterwards in some Harbours Whales hitting in a Voyage was performed and 1100. tunnes of Oyle brought home to the great encouragement of the said Aduenturers otherwise that Trade had beene vtterly ouerthrowne The yeere following 1622. the said Aduenturers at their owne charge set forth nine ships vnder the command aforesaid and therein employed diuers Land-men many of which afterwards proue good Sea-men and are fit for any Sea seruice Eight of which ships were appointed to make their Voyage vpon the Whale and one to goe on discouerie to the South-eastwards But ill successe happening one of their greatest ships of burthen whereof Iohn Masson was Master hauing in her two hundred tuns of Caske Coppers and diuers prouisions was vnfortunatly cast away against a piece of Ice vpon the coast of King Iames Newland foure leagues from the shoare in which ship perished nine and twentie men and the remainder being three and twenty were by the prouidence of the Almightie miraculously saued in a Shallop coasting thirtie leagues afterwards to meet with some other ships to find some succour hauing neither bread nor drinke nor any meanes whereby to get any food and so remayned three dayes in extreme cold weather being in a small Boat ready to bee swallowed vp of euery waue but that God prouided better for them Many of which people their hands and feet rotted off being frozen and they died in the Countrey The rest of the ships returned home laden bringing in them 1300. tuns of Oyle yet the foresaid chiefe Harbour could not performe their full lading there by reason of the Flemmings and Danes being to the Northwards as aforesaid which doth yeerely hinder the Companies ships from making a Voyage §. III. The Description of the seuerall sorts of Whales with the manner of killing them Whereto is added the Description of Greenland THe Whale is a Fish or Sea-beast of a huge bignesse about sixtie fiue foot long and thirtie fiue foot thicke his head is a third part of all his bodies quantitie his spacious mouth contayning a very great tongue and all his finnes which we call Whale finnes These finnes are fastned or rooted in his vpper chap and spread ouer his tongue on both sides his mouth being in number about two hundred and fiftie on one side and as many on the other side The longest finnes are placed in the midst of his mouth and the rest doe shorten by their proportionable degrees backward and forwards from ten or eleuen foot long to foure inches in length his eyes are not much bigger then an Oxes eyes his body is in fashion almost round forwards growing on still narrower towards his tayle from his bellie his tayl◠is about twentie foot broad and of a tough solid substance which we vse for blockes to chop the Blubber on which yeelds Oyle and of like nature are his two swimming finnes and they grow forward on him This creature commeth oftentimes aboue water spouting eight or nine times before he goeth downe againe whereby he may be descried two or three leagues off Then our Whale-killers presently rowe forth from the place where they stand to watch for him making what haste they can to meet him but commonly before they come neere him he will be gone downe againe and continue a good while before he riseth so that sometimes they rowe past him Yet are they very circumspect euer looking round where they may espie him risen or discerne his way vnder water which they call his Walke When he is vp and the Shallops neere him they rowe towards him very resolutely as if they would force the Shallop vpon him if hee went downe vnder water but the Harponyre who standeth vp in the head of the Boat darteth his Harping-iron at the Whale with both his hands so soone as he commeth within his reach wherwith the Whale being strucken presently descendeth to the bottome and therefore doe they reare out a rope of two hundred fathome which is fastned to the Harping-iron and lieth coyled in the Boat And they let him haue as much of the rope as reacheth to the bottome and when they perceiue him rising they hale in the rope to get neere him and when the Whale commeth vp aboue water then do the men lance him with their lances either out of one Shallop or the other for most commonly there bee two Shallops about the killing of one Whale In lancing him they strike neere to the finnes he swimmeth withall and as lowe vnder water neere his bellie as conueniently they can but when he is lanced he friskes and strikes with his tayle so forcibly that many times when hee hitteth a Shallop hee splitteth her in pieces so that the men are relieued and taken in by another Shallop and sometimes he striketh so fully vpon them that some of the men are either maymed or killed with his stroke Therefore they who vndertake this businesse which is the principall thing in the Voyage must not onely bee bold and resolute but also discreet and wary otherwise their rash forwardnesse may preuent them of their expected conquest considering they haue no shield to withstand the offended beast their enemy but onely by a heedfull warinesse to auoide the receiuing of his dangerous stroke Swimming is also requisite for a Whale-killer to be expert in for it may be a meanes to saue his life when he hath lost his Boat and another is not neere presently to helpe him The Whale hauing receiued his deadly wound then he spouteth bloud whereas formerly he cast forth water and his strength beginneth to fayle him but before he dieth hee will sometimes draw the Shallop three or foure miles from the place where he was first stricken and as he is a dying he turneth his bellie vpwards which lieth vppermost being dead Then they fasten a rope to his tayle and with the Shallops one made fast to another they towe him towards the ship with his tayle foremost Then doe they lay him crosse the sterne of the ship where he is cut vp in this manner two or three men in a Boat or Shallop come close to the side of the Whale and hold the Boat fast there with a Boat-hooke and another standing either in the Boat or most commonly vpon the Whale cutteth the fat which we call Blubber in square pieces with a cutting Knife three or foure foot long Then to race it from the flesh there is a Crane or Capsten placed purposely vpon the poope of the ship from whence there descendeth a rope with a hooke in it this hooke is made to take hold on a piece of Blubber and as the men winde the Capsten so the cutter with his long knife looseth the fat from the flesh euen as if the lard of a Swine were to be cut off from the leane When a piece is in order cut off then let they lower the Crane
at the least the three that went forward in that sort were Cornelius Iacobson Master of William Barents ship William Gysen Pylot of the Pinnasse and Hans van Nuflen William Barents Purser and after that the sayd Master and Pylot had shot three times and mist the Purser stepping somewhat further forward and seeing the Beare to be within the length of a shot presently leuelled his Piece and discharging it at the Beare shot her into the head betweene both the eyes and yet she held the man still fast by the necke and lifted vp her head with the man in her mouth but shee began somwhat to stagger wherewith the Purser and a Scottish-man drew out their Curtelaxes and strooke at her so hard that their Curtelaxes burst and yet she would not leaue the man at last William Geysen went to them and with all his might strooke the Beare vpon the snout with his Piece at which time the Beare fell to the ground making a great noyse and William Geysen leaping vpon her cut her throat The seuenth of September wee buried the dead bodies of our men in the States Iland and hauing stayed the Beare carryed her Skin to Amsterdam The ninth of September we set sayle from the States Iland but the Ice came in so thicke and with such force that we could not get through so that at Eeuening we came backe againe to the States Iland the winde being Westerly There the Admirall and the Pinnasse of Rotterdam fell on ground by certayne Rockes but got off againe without any hurt The tenth of September we sayled againe from the States Iland towards the Wey-gates and sent two Boates into the Sea to certifie vs what store of Ice was abroad and that Eeuening wee came all together into Wey-gates and Anchored by the Twist-point The eleuenth of September in the Morning we sayled againe into the Tartarian Sea but we fell into great store of Ice so that we sayled backe againe to the Wey-gates and Anchored by the Crosse-point and about midnight we saw a Russian Lodgie that sayled from the Bâ—â—lt-point towards the Samuters Land The thirteenth of September the Sunne being South there began a great storme to blow out of the South South-west the weather being mistie melancholy and snowie and the storme increasing more and more we draue through The fourteenth of September the weather began to bee somewhat clearer the winde being North-west and the storme blowing stiffe out of the Tartarian Sea but at Eeuening it was faire weather and then the wind blew North-east the same day our men went on the other side of Wey-gates on the firme land to take the depth of the Channell and entred into the Bough behind the Ilands where there stood a little House made of wood and a great fall of water into the land The same Morning we hoysed vp our Anchor thinking once againe to try what wee could doe to further our Voyage but our Admirall being of another minde lay still till the fifteenth of September The same day in the Morning the winde draue in from the East-end of the Wey-gates whereby we were forced presently to hoyse Anchors and the same day sayled out from the West-end of the Wey-gates with all our Fleet and made homewards againe and that day past by the Ilands called Matfloe and Delgoy and that night we sayled twelue miles North-west and by West till Saturday in the morning and then the winde fell North-east and it began to Snow We saw the point of Candyâ—aes lying South-east from vs and then wee had seuen and twentie fathom deepe red sand with blacke shels The nine and twentieth of September in the Eeuening entred into Ward-house and there we stayed till the tenth of October And that day we set sayle out of Ward-house and vpon the eighteenth of Nouember we arriued in the Maes CHAP. V. The third Voyage Northward to the Kingdomes of Cathaia and China in Anno 1596. Written by GERAT DE VEER §. I. What happened to them at Sea before they came to build their House AFter that the seuen Ships as I said before were returned backe againe from their North Voyage with lesse benefit then was expected the Generall States of the Vnited Prouinces consulted together to send certayne Ships thither againe a third time to see if they might bring the said Voyage to a good end if it were possible to bee done but after much Consultation had they could not agree thereon yet they were content to cause a Proclamation to be made that if any either Townes or Merchants were disposed to venture to make further search that way at their owne charges if the Voyage were accomplished and that thereby it might be made apparant that the sayd passage was to be sayled they were content to giue them a good reward in the Countries behalfe naming a certayne summe of money Whereupon in the beginning of this yeere there was two Ships rigged and set forth by the Towne of Amsterdam to sayle that Voyage the men therein being taken vp vpon two Conditions viz. What they should haue if the Voyage were not accomplished and what they should haue if they got through and brought the Voyage to an end promising them a good reward if they could effect it thereby to encourage the men taking vp as many vnmarried men as they could that they might not bee disswaded by meanes of their Wiues and Children to leaue off the Voyage Vpon these Conditions those two Ships were ready to set sayle in the beginning of May. In the one Iacob Heemskerke Hendrickson was Master and Factor for the Wares and Merchandizes and William Barents chiefe Pylot In the other Iohn Cornelison Rijp was both Master and Factor for the goods that the Merchants had laden in her The fifth of May all the men in both the Ships were Mustered and vpon the tenth of May they sayled from Amsterdam and the thirteenth of May got to the Vlie The thirtieth of May we had a good winde and sayled North-east and wee tooke the height of the Sunne with our Crosse-staffe and found that it was eleuated aboue the Horizon 47. degrees and 42. minutes his Declination was 21. degrees and 42. minutes so that the height of the Pole was 69. degrees and 24. minutes The first of Iune we had no night and the second of Iune we had the winde contrarie but vpon the fourth of Iune we had a good winde out of the West North-west and sayled North-east And when the Sunne was about South South-east wee saw a strange sight in the Element for on each side of the Sunne there was another Sunne and two Raine-bowes that past cleane thorow the three Sunnes and then two Raine-bowes more the one compassing round about the Sunnes and the other crosse thorow the great rundle the great rundle standing with the vttermost point eleuated aboue the Horizon 28. degrees at noone the Sunne being at the highest the height thereof was measured and
got one to goe with our man promising him two Ryals of eight for his paines and so the Laplander going vvith him tooke a Piece on his necke and our man a Boat-hooke and about Eeuening they set forward the vvinde as then being East and East North-east The sixe and twentieth it vvas faire vveather the vvind South-east at vvhich time we drew vp both our Scutes vpon the Land and tooke all the goods out of them to make them the lighter vvhich done we went to the Russians and vvarmed vs and there dressed such meates as wee had and then againe we began to make two meales a day vvhen we perceiued that we should euery day finde more people and vve dranke of their drinke which they call Quasse vvhich was made of broken peeces of Bread and it tasted well for in long time wee had drunke nothing else but Water Some of our men went further into the Land and there found blew Berries and bramble Berries vvhich they plucked and eate and they did vs much good for we found that they healed vs of our loosenesse the vvind still blew South-east The eight and twentieth it was indifferent good weather and then we drew the Scutes vpon the Land againe that we might take the rest of the goods out of them because the wind still blew hard North and North North-west and hauing drawne the Scutes vp we spred our sayles vpon them to shelter vs vnder them for it was still mystie and raynie weather much desiring to heare some newes of our man that was gone to Coola with the Laplander The nine and twentieth wee spyed the Laplander comming alone without our man whereat we wondred and were somewhat in doubt but when hee came vnto vs he shewed vs a Letter that was writen vnto our Master which he opened before vs the Contents thereof being that hee that had written the Letter wondred much at our arriuall in that place and that long since hee verily thought that we had beene all cast away being exceeding glad of our happie fortune and how that he would presently come vnto vs with victuals and all other necessaries to succour vs withall we being in no small admiration who it might bee that shewed vs so great fauour and friendship could not imagine what he was for it appeared by the Letter that he knew vs well and although the Letter was subscribed by me Iohn Cornelison Rip yet wee could not bee perswaded that it was the same Iohn Cornelison who the yeere before had beene set out in the other ship with vs left vs about the Beare Iland for those good newes we payd the Laplander his hyer and besides that gaue him Hose Breeches and other furniture so that hee was apparelled like a Hollander for as then wee thought our selues to bee wholly out of danger and so being of good comfort we layd vs downe to rest Heere I cannot chuse but shew you how fast the Laplander went for when he went to Coola as our Companion told vs they were two Dayes and two Nights on the way and yet went apace and when he came backe againe he was but a Day and a Night comming to vs which was wonderfull it being but halfe the time so that we sayd and verily thought that hee was halfe a Conjurer and he brought vs a Partridge which hee had killed by the way as he went The thirtieth wee saw a Russian Ioll come rowing with Iohn Cornelison and our Companion that we had sent to Coola who being landed wee receiued and welcommed each other with great joy and exceeding gladnesse as if either of vs on both sides had seene each other rise from death to life againe for we esteemed him and hee vs to bee dead long since hee brought vs a Barrell of Roswicke Beere Wine Aqua vitâ— Bread Flesh Bacon Salmon Suger and other things which comforted and relieued vs much and we rejoyced together for our so vnexpected meeting at that time giuing God great thankes for his Mercie shewed vnto vs. The first of September in the Morning with the East Sun we got to the West-side of the Riuer of Coola and entred into it where we rowed till the Flood was past and then wee cast the Stones that serued vs for Anchors vpon the ground at a point of Land till the Flood came in againe and when the Sunne was South wee set sayle againe with the Flood and so sayled and rowed till mid-night and then wee cast Anchor againe till morning The second in the Morning we rowed vp the Riuer and as we past along wee saw some Trees on the Riuer side which comforted vs and made vs glad as if we had then come into a new world for in all the time that wee had beene out we had not seene any Trees and when we were by the Salt Kettles which is about three miles from Coola we stayed there a while and made merrie and then went forward againe and with the West North-west Sunne got to Iohn Cornelisons Ship wherein we entred and drunke there wee began to make merrie againe with the Saylers that were therein and that had beene in the Voyage with Iohn Cornelison the yeere before and bad each other welcome then we rowed forward and late in the Eeuening got to Coola where some of vs went on Land and some stayed in the Scutes to looke to the goods to whom we sent Milke and other things to comfort and refresh them and we were all exceeding glad that God of his mercie had deliuered vs out of so many dangers and troubles and had brought vs thither in safetie The third wee vnladed all our goods and there refreshed our selues after our toylesome and wearie Iourney and the great hunger wee had endured thereby to recouer our healths and strengths againe The eleuenth by leaue and consent of the Bayart Gouernour of the great Prince of Moscouia we brought our Scute and our Boate into the Merchants House and there let them stand for a remembrance of our long farre and neuer before sayled way and that wee had sayled in those open Scutes almost foure hundred Dutch miles through and along by the Sea Coasts to the Towne of Coola The seuenteenth of September Iohn Cornelison and our Master being come aboord the next day about the East Sunne we set sayle out of the Riuer Coola and with Gods grace put to Sea to sayle homewards and being out of the Riuer wee sayled along by the Land North-west and by North the winde being South Vpon the nine and twentieth of October wee arriued in the Mase with an East North-east wind and the next morning got to Maseland Sluce and there going on Land from thence rowed to Delfe and then to the Hage and from thence to Harlem And vpon the first of Nouember about Noone got to Amsterdam in the same Clothes that wee wore in Noua Zembla with our Caps furr'd with white Foxes skinnes The newes thereof being spred
a terce full of salt there which wee left in that place the eleuenth of May. The fifteenth day when wee had ended our businesse and eaten some of our Beares flesh and set vp an Ensigne in token of our possession of the Iland wee prepared to be gone and about an East North-east Sunne the wind came Westerly which made me thinke as it proued that the Ship would be on the South-east side of the Iland and when wee were comming and almost at the North-east point we saw nine men presently I knew them to bee the men of Hull Along I came to the East side where we tooke in drift wood and a broad stone to make a fire vpon in our Boat While wee were there wee espied our ship vnder her Fore-topsayle and her Misen We made all the haste we could and came to the Coue where wee made our voyage the Summer last past There likewise I set vp a Pike with a white cloth vpon it and a letter signifying our possession for the right worshipfull Company trading to Moscouie When I had done I espied the Hull mans Boat rowing into the Coue and a Tent set vp in the bottom of the Bay I went thither and told him we had taken possession there the eight of May last He answered That if the beasts came on shoare he would kill them if he could and that there were as good men which ventured in that Ship as the Company I told him he durst not answer these words in England and so departed and got some Fowle About a South-west Sunne wee stood toward our Ship hauing the wind at West South-west and the Ship bearing from vs South-east about foure leagues I had not sailed ten miles but the Ice was so close and firme that I could not get aboord nor backe againe for it closed with such force that it made the Shallops sides cracke as though they would haue met together Wee laboured very sore to saue our Boat because it did concerne our liues and got her into a place where shee lay betweene two pieces of Ice After this sort we draue with the Ice till we had lost sight of our Ship which was about a North sun and still wee draue being not able otherwise to moue till we were aboue eight leagues from the Iland The sixteenth day at an East South-east Sun the Ice began to open Then although my Company were in despaire and said it was impossible to get out to worke wee went and by cutting off Ice and remouing of it one piece from another we made way through toward the Land The neerer to the Land wee got wee found the more open Sea and by a North Sunne wee got on shoare After wee had giuen God thankes for our deliuerance out of such extreame danger wee eate some Fowle and Beares flesh which wee sod vnder a Cliffe There wee found nine young Foxes and killed the old one There also we slept vpon the cold Sand which was not past three inches thicke and vnderneath Ice and staied here till a South-east Sunne the seuenteenth day The seuenteenth we went from this place to the Coue where we found the Hull mans Boat I made a tilt of the Shallops sayle and sod some Beares flesh and Fowle and stayed about the Coue all that day And vpon an Iland commonly called Gull-Iland I found three Mynes of Lead Vre but hauing no fit tooles to breake the Rocks and also because it was in the view of the Hull mans Tent I was forced to let it rest till the Ships could get into the Coue. The eighteenth day wee went to the North side of the Iland and in our way wee found good Sea-coales to burne some wee tooke with vs to try them and found them good And on the North side I slew two Beares Then wee shared the bread that was left and wee had but two cakes to a man for some of my Company while I was asleepe or killing of the Beares had broken open the chest wherein the bread was and had conueyed some away Our beere was spent before this time and we were faine to drinke snow water The nineteenth wee went to the Coue the wind being Westerly to see if wee could espy our Ship but wee could not neither could shee come neere the Iland for Ice for all the Sea as farre as I could see from the top of an high Hill was couered with Ice sauing that within a quarter of a mile off the shoare it was cleere round about once in a tyde The twentieth day I went to the North side againe and slew a Beare Thus wee spent the time sometimes on one side sometimes on the other neuer staying aboue one day in one place till the Ship came in vvhich vvas the seuen and twentieth of Iune on vvhich day I slew another Beare I slew seuen in all vvhose flesh vve eate full sauerly forgetting the oyly ranknesse of it for hunger is a sauourie sawce The seuen and twentieth our ship came to an anchor on the North side where we then were assoone as vve saw her we needed no bidding to go aboord When we were come to the ship side they bad vs vvelcome but vvhereas vve thought to haue releeued our selues vvee found it farre otherwise because the Ship had a knocke vvith a piece of Ice in the Sterne vvhich brake in the corner of a Planke vnder the vvater so that our bread-roome vvas full of vvater and all our bread spoyled sauing about one hundred vveight vvhich vvas but a small quantitie for three and forty men This day a Ship called the Matthew came to an anchor by vs. Then Master Welden and I vvent on shoare vvhere vve found one Iohn Skinner Masters mate of the Matthew vvith eleuen men by him We set vp our Tent and told him there vvas no voyage for him to make but our necessitie vvas such that vve vvere faine to take foure hundred of bread of them vpon some condition vvhich I vvill not speake of here The same day vvee thought to haue taken a Copper aboord vvhich I digged out of the snow but by negligence it vvas let fall into the Sea yet afterward taken vp againe and carried aboord The same day another Ship called the Mary Margarite came into the said Coue on the South side The eighteenth I vvent to the Coue vvith the Shallop and sixe men vvhere I found the Marie Margarite there passed no great kindnesse betweene them and me I slew three Morses there two vvere lost the others head I brought aboord The next day I came aboord our Ship and vve rid on that side looking still vvhen any beasts vvould come on shoare till the second of Iuly Then vve vveighed and stood to the East side of the Iland because the vvind vvas at West North-west and great store of Ice came from those parts We had not rid one houre to an end but vve saw a
a reward to them that killed either Beast Fish or Fowle as in his Iournall you haue seene About the middle of this moneth of Nouember dyed Iohn Williams our Gunner God pardon the Masters vncharitable dealing with this man Now for that I am come to speake of him out of whose ashes as it were that vnhappy deed grew which brought a scandall vpon all that are returned home and vpon the action it selfe the multitude like the dog running after the stone but not at the caster therefore not to wrong the liuing nor slander the dead I will by the leaue of God deliuer the truth as neere as I can You shall vnderstand that our Master kept in his house at London a young man named Henrie Greene borne in Kent of Worshipfull Parents but by his leud life and conuersation hee had lost the good will of all his frinds and had spent all that hee had This man our Master would haue to Sea with him because hee could write well our Master gaue him meate and drinke and lodging and by meanes of one Master Venson with much adoe got foure pounds of his mother to buy him clothes wherewith Master Venson would not trust him but saw it laid out himselfe This Henrie Greene was not set downe in the owners booke nor any wages made for him Hee came first aboord at Grauesend and at Harwich should haue gone into the field with one Wilkinson At Island the Surgeon and hee fell out in Dutch and hee beat him a shoare in English which set all the company in a rage so that wee had much adoe to get the Surgeon aboord I told the Master of it but hee bade mee let it alone for said hee the Surgeon had a tongue that would wrong the best friend hee had But Robert Iuet the Masters Mate would needs burne his finger in the embers and told the Carpenter a long tale when hee was drunke that our Master had brought in Greene to cracke his credit that should displease him which words came to the Masters eares who when hee vnderstood it would haue gone backe to Island when he was fortie leagues from thence to haue sent home his Mate Robert Iuet in a Fisher-man But being otherwise perswaded all was well So Henry Greene stood vpright and very inward with the Master and was a seruiceable man euery way for manhood but for Religion he would say he was cleane paper whereon he might write what hee would Now when our Gunner was dead and as the order is in such cases if the company stand in need of any thing that belonged to the man deceased then is it brought to the Mayne Mast and there sold to them that will giue most for the same This Gunner had a gray cloth gowne which Greene prayed the Master to friend him so much as to let him haue it paying for it as another would giue the Master saith hee should and thereupon hee answered some that sought to haue it that Greene should haue it and none else and so it rested Now out of season and time the Master calleth the Carpenter to goe in hand with an house on shoare which at the beginning our Master would not heare when it might haue beene done The Carpenter told him that the Snow and Frost were such as hee neither could nor would goe in hand with such worke Which when our Master heard hee ferreted him out of his Cabbin to strike him calling him by many foule names and threatning to hang him The Carpenter told him that hee knew what belonged to his place better then himselfe and that hee was no House Carpenter So this passed and the house was after made with much labour but to no end The next day after the Master and the Carpenter fell out the Carpenter tooke his Peece and Henry Greene with him for it was an order that none should goe out alone but one with a Peece and another with a Pike This did moue the Master so much the more against Henry Greene that Robert Billet his Mate must haue the gowne and had it deliuered vnto him which when Henry Greene saw he challenged the Masters promise but the Master did so raile on Greene with so many words of disgrace telling him that all his friends would not trust him with twenty shillings and therefore why should he As for wages he had none nor none should haue if he did not please him well Yet the Master had promised him to make his wages as good as any mans in the ship and to haue him one of the Princes guard when we came home But you shall see how the deuil out of this so wrought with Green that he did the Master what mischiefâ— hee could in seeking to discredit him and to thrust him and many other honest men out of the Ship in the end To speake of all our trouble in this time of Winter which was so cold as it lamed the most of our Company and my selfe doe yet feele it would bee too tedious But I must not forget to shew how mercifully God dealt with vs in this time for the space of three moneths wee had such store of Fowle of one kinde which were Partridges as white as milke that wee killed aboue an hundred dozen besides others of sundry sorts for all was fish that came to the net The Spring comming this Fowle left vs yet they were with vs all the extreame cold Then in their places came diuers sort of other Fowle as Swanne Geese Duck and Teale but hard to come by Our Master hoped they would haue bred in those broken grounds but they doe not but came from the South and flew to the North further then we were this Voyage yet if they be taken short with the wind at North or North-west or North-east then they fall and stay till the winde serue them and then flye to the North. Now in time these Fowles are gone and few or none to bee seene Then wee went into the Woods Hilles and Valleyes for all things that had any shew of substance in them how vile soeuer the mosse of the ground then the which I take the powder of a post to bee much better and the Frogge in his ingendring time as loathsome as a Toade was not spared But amongst the diuers sorts of buds it pleased God that Thomas Woodhouse brought home a budde of a Tree full of a Turpentine substance Of this our Surgeon made a decoction to drinke and applyed the buddes hot to them that were troubled with ach in any part of their bodies and for my part I confesse I receiued great and present ease of my paine About this time when the Ice began to breake out of the Bayes there came a Sauage to our Ship as it were to see and to bee seene being the first that we had seene in all this time whom our Master intreated well and made much of him promising vnto
himselfe great matters by his meanes and therefore would haue all the Kniues and Hatchets which any man had to his priuate vse but receiued none but from Iohn King the Carpenter and my selfe To this Sauage our Master gaue a Knife a Looking-glasse and Buttons who receiued them thankefully and made signes that after hee had slept hee would come againe which hee did When hee came hee brought with him a Sled which hee drew after him and vpon it two Deeres skinnes and two Beauer skinnes Hee had a scrip vnder his arme out of which hee drew those things which the Master had giuen him Hee tooke the Knife and laid it vpon one of the Beauer skinnes and his Glasses and Buttons vpon the other and so gaue them to the Master who receiued them and the Sauage tooke those things which the Master had giuen him and put them vp into his scrip againe Then the Master shewed him an Hatchet for which hee would haue giuen the Master one of his Deere skinnes but our Master would haue them both and so hee had although not willingly After many signes of people to the North and to the South and that after so many sleepes he would come againe he went his way but neuer came more Now the Ice being out of the Sounds so that our Boat might go from one place vnto another a company of men were appointed by the Master to go a fishing with our net their names were as followeth William Wilson Henry Greene Michael Perce Iohn Thomas Andrew Moter Bennet Mathewes and Arnold Lodlo These men the first day they went caught fiue hundred fish as big as good Herrings and some Troutes which put vs all in some hope to haue our wants supplied and our Commons amended but these were the most that euer they got in one day for many dayes they got not a quarter so many In this time of their fishing Henry Green and William Wilson with some others plotted to take the net and the shallop which the Carpenter had now set vp and so to shift for themselues But the shallop being readie our Master would goe in it himselfe to the South and South-west to see if hee could meete with the people for to that end was it set vp and that way wee might see the Woods set on fire by them So the Master tooke the Sayue and the Shallop and so much victuall as would serue for eight or nine dayes and to the South hee went They that remained aboord were to take in water wood and ballast and to haue all things in a readinesse against hee came backe But hee set no time of his returne for he was perswaded if he could meet with the people hee should haue flesh of them and that good store but hee returned worse then hee went forth For hee could by no meanes meete with the people although they were neere them yet they would set the woods on fire in his sight Being returned hee fitted all things for his returne and first deliuered all the bread out of the bread roome which came to a pound a piece for euery mans share and deliuered also a Bill of Returne willing them to haue that to shew if it pleased God that they came home and he wept when hee gaue it vnto them But to helpe vs in this poore estate with some reliefe the Boate and Sayue went to worke on Friday morning and stayed till Sunday noone at which time they came aboord and brought fourescore small Fish a poore reliefe for so many hungry bellies Then we wayed and stood out of our wintering place and came to an Anchor without in the mouth of the Bay from whence we wayed and came to an anchor without in the Sea where our bread being gone that store of cheese we had was to stop a gap whereof there were fiue whereat the company grudged because they made account of nine But those that were left were equally diuided by the Master although he had counsell to the contrarie for there were some who hauing it would make hast to bee rid thereof because they could not gouerne it I knew when Henrie Greene gaue halfe his bread which hee had for fourteene dayes to one to keepe and prayed him not to let him haue any vntill the next Munday but before Wednesday at night hee neuer left till hee had it againe hauing eaten vp his first weekes bread before So Wilson the Boatswaine hath eaten in one day his fortnights bread and hath beene two or three dayes sicke for his labour The cause that moued the Master to deliuer all the Cheese was because they were not all of one goodnesse and therefore they should see that they had no wrong done them but euery man should haue alike the best and the worst together which was three pounds and a halfe for seuen dayes The wind seruing we weighed and stood to the North-west and on Munday at night the eighteenth day of Iune wee fell into the Ice and the next day the wind being at West we lay there till Sunday in sight of Land Now being here the Master told Nicholas Simmes that there would be a breaking vp of chests and a search for bread and willed him if hee had any to bring it to him which hee did and deliuered to the Master thirty cakes in a bagge This deed of the Master if it bee true hath made mee maruell what should bee the reason that hee did not stop the breach in the beginning but let it grow to that height as that it ouerthrew himselfe and many other honest men but there are many deuices in the heart of man yet the counsell of the Lord shall stand Being thus in the Ice on Saturday the one and twentieth of Iune at night Wilson the Boatswayne and Henry Greene came to mee lying in my Cabbin lame and told mee that they and the rest of their Associates would shift the Company and turne the Master and all the sicke men into the shallop let them shift for themselues For there was not fourteen daies victual left for all the Company at that poore allowance they were at and that there they lay the Master not caring to goe one way or other and that they had not eaten any thing these three dayes and therefore were resolute either to mend or end and what they had begun they would goe through with it or dye When I heard this I told them I maruelled to heare so much from them considering that they were married men and had wiues and children and that for their sakes they should not commit so foule a thing in the sight of God and man as that would bee for why should they banish themselues from their natiue Countrie Henry Greene bad me hold my peace for he knew the worst which was to be hanged when hee came home and therefore of the two he would rather be hanged at home then starued abroad and for the good will they
bare me they would haue mee stay in the Ship I gaue them thankes and told them that I came into her not to forsake her yet not to hurt my selfe and others by any such deed Henry Greene told me then that I must take my fortune in the Shallop If there bee no remedie said I the will of GOD bee done Away went Henry Greene in a rage swearing to cut his throat that went about to disturbe them and left Wilson by me with whom I had some talke but to no good for he was so perswaded that there was no remedie now but to goe on while it was hot least their partie should faile them and the mischiefe they had intended to others should light on themselues Henry Greene came againe and demanded of him what I said Wilson answered He is in his old song still patient Then I spake to Henry Greene to stay three dayes in which time I would so deale with the Master that all should be well So I dealt with him to forbeare but two dayes nay twelue houres there is no way then say they but out of hand Then I told them that if they would stay till Munday I would ioyne with them to share all the victuals in the ship and would iustifie it when I came home but this would not serue their turnes Wherefore I told them it was some worse matter they had in hand then they made shew of and that it was bloud and reuenge hee sought or else he would not at such a time of night vndertake such a deed Henry Greene with that taketh my Bible which lay before me and sware that hee would doe no man harme and what hee did was for the good of the voyage and for nothing else and that all the rest should do the like The like did Wilson sweare Henry Greene went his way and presently came Iuet who because hee was an ancient man I hoped to haue found some reason in him but hee was worse then Henry Greene for hee sware plainely that he would iustifie this deed when he came home After him came Iohn Thomas and Michel Perce as birds of one feather but because they are not liuing I will let them goe as then I did Then came Moter and Bennet of whom I demanded if they were well aduised what they had taken in hand They answered they were and therefore came to take their oath Now because I am much condemned for this oath as one of them that plotted with them and that by an oath I should bind them together to performe what they had begun I thought good heere to set downe to the view of all how well their oath and deedes agreed and thus it was You shall sweare truth to God your Prince and Countrie you shall doe nothing but to the glory of God and the good of the action in hand and harme to no man This was the oath without adding or diminishing I looked for more of these companions although these were too many but there came no more It was darke and they in a readinesse to put this deed of darknesse in execution I called to Henry Greene and Wilson and prayed them not to goe in hand with it in the darke but to stay till the morning Now euerie man I hope would goe to his rest but wickednesse sleepeth not for Henry Greene keepeth the Master company all night and gaue mee bread which his Cabbin-mate gaue him and others are as watchfull as he Then I asked Henrie Greene whom he would put out with the Master he said the Carpenter Iohn King and the sicke men I said they should not doe well to part with the Carpenter what need soeuer they should haue Why the Carpenter was in no more regard amongst them was first for that he and Iohn King were condemned for wrong done in the victuall But the chiefest cause was for that the Master loued him and made him his Mate vpon his returne out of our wintering place thereby displacing Robert Billet whereat they did grudge because hee could neither write nor read And therefore said they the Master and his ignorant Mate would carry the Ship whither the Master pleased the Master forbidding any man to keepe account or reckoning hauing taken from all men whatsoeuer serued for that purpose Well I obtained of Henrie Greene and Wilson that the Carpenter should stay by whose meanes I hoped after they had satisfied themselues that the Master and the poore man might be taken into the Ship againe Or I hoped that some one or other would giue some notice either to the Carpenter Iohn King or the Master for so it might haue come to passe by some of them that were the most forward Now it shall not bee amisse to shew how we were lodged and to begin in the Cooke roome there lay Bennet and the Cooper lame without the Cooke roome on the steere-board side lay Thomas Wydhouse sicke next to him lay Sydrack Funer lame then the Surgeon and Iohn Hudson with him next to them lay Wilson the Boatswaine and then Arnold Lodlo next to him in the Gun-roome lay Robert Iuet and Iohn Thomas on the Lar-boord side lay Michael Bute and Adria Moore who had neuer beene well since wee lost our Anchor next to them lay Michael Perce and Andrew Moter Next to them without the Gun-roome lay Iohn King and with him Robert Billet next to them my selfe and next to me Francis Clements In the mid-ship betweene the Capstone and the Pumpes lay Henrie Greene and Nicholas Simmes This night Iohn King was late vp and they thought he had been with the Master but he was with the Carpenter who lay on the Poope and comming downe from him was met by his Cabbin-mate as it were by chance and so they came to their Cabbin together It was not long ere it was day then came Bennet for water for the Kettle hee rose and went into the Hold when hee was in they shut the Hatch on him but who kept it downe I know not vp vpon the Deck went Bennet In the meane time Henrie Greene and another went to the Carpenter and held him with a talke till the Master came out of his Cabbin which hee soone did then came Iohn Thomas and Bennet before him while Wilson bound his armes behind him He asked them what they meant they told him he should know when he was in the Shallop Now Iuet while this was a doing came to Iohn King into the Hold who was prouided for him for he had got a sword of his own and kept him at a bay and might haue killed him but others came to helpe him and so he came vp to the Master The Master called to the Carpenter and told him that he was bound but I heard no answere he made Now Arnold Lodlo and Michael Bute rayled at them and told them their knauerie would shew it selfe Then was the Shallop haled vp to the Ship side and the poore sicke
in and found some in an hundred and odde fathomes of water The next day we weighed and stood to the East but before wee came heere we had put our selues to hard allowance as halfe a foule a day with the pottage for yet we had some meale left and nothing else Then they beganne to make triall of all whatsoeuer wee had â—layed our Fowle for they wil not pull and Robert Iuet was the first that made vse of the skins by burning of the Feathers so they became a great dish of meate and as for the garbidge it was not throwne away After we were cleere of these Ilands which lie out with two points one to the South-east and the other to the North making a Bay to the sight as if there were no way through we continued our course East South-east and South and by East to raise the Desolations from thence to shape our course for Ireland Thus we continued diuers dayes but the wind comming against vs made vs to alter our course and by the meanes of Robert Iuet who perswaded the company that they should find great reliefe in Newfound Land if our Country-men were there and if they were gone before we came yet should we find great store of bread and fish left ashoare by them but how true I giue God thankes we did not trie Yet we stood to the South-west and to the West almost to fiftie seuen degrees when by the will of God the winde came vp at South-west Then the Master asked me if he should take the benefit of this wind and shape his course for Ireland I said it was best to goe where we knew Corne grew and not to seeke it where it was cast away and not to be found Towards Ireland now wee stood with prosperous winds for many dayes together then was all our Meale spent and our Fowle restie and dry but being no remedie we were content with the Salt broth for Dinner and the halfe Fowle for Supper Now went our Candles to wracke and Bennet our Cooke made a messe of meate of the bones of the Fowle frying them with Candle-grease till they were crispe and with Vineger put to them made a good dish of meate Our Vineger was shared and to euery man a pound of Candles deliuered for a weeke as a great daintie Now Robert Iuet by his reckoning saith wee were within sixtie or seuentie leagues of Ireland when wee had two hundred thither And sure our course was so much the longer through our euill steeredge for our men became so weake that they could not stand at the Helme but were faine to sit Then Robert Iuet dyed for meere want and all our men were in despaire and said wee were past Ireland and our last Fowle were in the steep-tub So our men cared not which end went forward insomuch as our Master was driuen to looke to their labour as well as his owne for some of them would sit and see the fore-sayle or mayne-sayle flie vp to the tops the sheetes being either flowne or broken and would not helpe it themselues nor call to others for helpe which much grieued the Master Now in this extremitie it pleased God to giue vs sight of Land not farre from the place our Master said he would fall withal which was the Bay of Galloway and we fell to the West of the Derses and so stood along by the coast to the South-west In the end there was a joyful cry a sayle a sayle towards which they stood then they saw more but to the neerest we stood and called to him his Barke was of Fowy and was at anchor a Fishing he came to vs and brought vs into Bere Hauen Here we stayed a few dayes and delt with the Irish to supply our wants but found no reliefe for in this place there was neither Bread Drinke nor mony to be had amongst them Wherfore they aduised vs to deale with our Country-men who were there a fishing which we did but found them so cold in kindnesse that they would doe nothing without present money whereof we had none in the Ship In the end we procured one Iohn Waymouth Master of the Barke that brought vs into this Harbour to furnish vs with money which hee did and receiued our best Cable and Anchor in pawne for the fame With this money our Master with the helpe of Iohn Waymouth bought Bread Beere and Beefe Now as wee were beholding to Waymouth for his money so were wee to one Captaine Taylor for making of our contracts with Waymouth by whose meanes hee tooke a Bill for our Cable and Anchor and for the mens Wages who would not goe with vs vnlesse Waymouth wold passe his word for the same for they made shew that they were not willing to goe with vs for any wages Whereupon Captaine Taylor swore hee would presse them and then if they would not goe hee would hang them In conclusion wee agreed for three pound ten shillings a man to bring our Ship to Plimouth or Dartmouth and to giue the Pilot fiue pound but if the winde did not serue but that they were driuen to put into Bristow they were to haue foure pound ten shillings a man and the Pilot sixe pound Omitting therefore further circumstances from Bere Hauen wee came to Plimouth and so to an anchor before the Castle and from Plimouth with faire winde and weather without stop or stay wee came to the Downes from thence to Grauesend where most of our men went a shoare and from thence came on this side Erith and there stopped where our Master Robert Billet came aboord and so had mee vp to London with him and so wee came to Sir Thomas Smiths together Forasmuch as this report of Pricket may happely bee suspected by some as not so friendly to Hudson who returned with that Companie which had so cruelly exposed Hudson and his and therefore may seeme to lay heauier imputation and rip vp occasions further then they will beleeue I haue also added the report of Thomas Widhouse one of the exposed Companie who ascribeth those occasions of discord to Iuet I take not on mee to sentence no not to examine I haue presented the Euidence iust as I had it let the Bench censure hearing with both eares that which with both eyes they may see in those and these notes to which I haue first prefixed his Letter to Master Samuel Macham MAster Macham I heartily commend meâ— vnto you c. I can write vnto you no newes though I haue seene much but such as euery English Fisherman haunting these Coasts can report better then my selfe Wee kept our Whit sunday in the North-east end of Island and I thinke I neuer fared better in England then wee feasted there They of the Countrey are very poore and liue miserably yet we found therein store of fresh Fish and daintie Fowle I my selfe in an after-noone killed so much Fowle as feasted all our Companie being
three and twentie persons at one time onely with Partridges besides Curlue Plouer Mallard Teale and Goose. I haue seene two hot Bathes in Island and haue beene in one of them Wee are resolued to trie the vttermost and lye onely expecting a faire winde and to refresh our selues to auoyd the Ice which now is come off the West Coasts of which wee haue seene whole Ilands but God bee thanked haue not beene in danger of any Thus I desire all your prayers for vs. From Island this thirtieth of May 1610. A note found in the Deske of Thomas Wydowse Student in the Mathematickes hee being one of them who was put into the Shallop THe tenth day of September 1610. after dinner our Master called all the Companie together to heare and beare witnesse of the abuse of some of the Companie it hauing beene the request of Robert Iuet that the Master should redresse some abuses and slanders as hee called them against this Iuet which thing after the Master had examined and heard with equitie what hee could say for himselfe there were prooued so many and great abuses and mutinous matters against the Master and action by Iuet that there was danger to haue suffred them longer and it was fit time to punish and cut off farther occasions of the like mutinies It was prooued to his face first with Bennet Mathew our Trumpet vpon our first sight of Island and hee confest that hee supposed that in the action would bee man-slaughter and proue bloodie to some Secondly at our comming from Island in hearing of the companie hee did threaten to turne the head of the Ship home from the action which at that time was by our Master wisely pacified hoping of amendment Thirdly it was deposed by Philip Staffe our Carpenter and Ladlie Arnold to his face vpon the holy Bible that hee perswaded them to keepe Muskets charged and Swords readie in their Cabbins for they should bee charged with shot ere the Voyage were ouer Fourthly wee being pestered in the Ice hee had vsed words tending to mutinie discouragement and slander of the action which easily tooke effect in those that were timorous and had not the Master in time preuented it might easily haue ouerthrowne the Voyage and now lately beeing imbayed in a deepe Bay which the Master had desire to see for some reasons to himselfe knowne his word tended altogether to put the Companie into a fray of extremitie by wintering in cold Iesting at our Masters hope to see Bantam by Candlemasse For these and diuers other base slâ—nders against the Master hee was deposed and Robert Bylot who had shewed himselfe honestly respecting the good of the action was placed in his stead the Masters Mate Also Francis Clement the Boatson as this time was put from his Office and William Wilson a man thought more fit preferred to his place This man had basely carryed himselfe to our Master and to the action Also Adrian Mooter was appointed Boatsons mate and a promise by the Master that from this day Iuats wages should remaine to Bylot and the Boatsons ouerplus of wages should bee equally diuided betweene Wilson and one Iohn King to the owners good liking one of the 〈◊〉 Masters who had very well carryed themselues to the furtherance of the businesse Also the Master promised if the Offenders yet behaued themselues henceforth honestly hee would bee a meanes for their good and that hee would forget iniuries with other admonitions These things thus premised touching Hudsons exposing and Gods iust iudgements on the Exposers as Pricket hath related whom they reserued as is thought in hope by Sir Dudley Digges his Master to procure their pardon at their returne I thought good to adde that which I haue further receiued from good Intelligence that the Ship comming aground at Digges Iland in 62. degrees 44. minutes a great flood came from the West and set them on floate an argument of an open passage from the South Sea to that and consequently to these Seas The Weapons and Arts which they saw beyond those of other Sauages are arguments hereof Hee which assaulted Pricket in the Boate had a weapon broad and sharpe indented of bright Steele such they vse in Iaua riueted into a handle of Morse tooth CHAP. XVIII The Discoueries of M. M. NICOLO and ANTONIO ZENI gathered out of their Letters by FRANCISCO MARCOLINO whereto is added QVIRINO his Ship-wracke IN the yeere 1380. Master Nicolo Zeno being wealthy and of a haughtie spirit desiring to see the fashions of the world built and furnished a Ship at his owne charges and passing the Straits of Gibralter held on his course Northwards with intent to see England and Flanders But a violent tempest assailing him at Sea hee was carried hee knew not whither till at last his Ship was carried away vpon the I le of Frisland where the mâ—n and most part of the goods were saued In vaine seemes that deliuerie that deliuers vp presently to another Executioner The Ilanders like Neptunes hungry groomes or his base and blacke Guard set vpon the men whom the Seas had spared but heere also they found a second escape by meanes of a Prince named Zichmui Prince of that and many Ilands thereabouts who being neere hand with his Armie came at the out-crie and chasing away the people tooke them into protection This Zichmui had the yeere before giuen the ouerthrow to the King of Norway and was a great aduenturer in feates of Armes He spake to them in Latine and placed them in his Nauie wherewith hee wonne diuers Ilands Nicolo be haued himselfe so well both in sauing the Fleet by his Sea-skill and in conquest of the Ilands by his valour that Zichmui made him Knight and Captaine of his Nauie After diuers notable exploits Nicolo armed three Barkes with which hee arriued in Engroneland where hee found a Monasterie of Friers of the Preachers Order and a Church dedicated to Saint Thomas hard by a Hill that casteth out fire like Vesuniâ—s and Aetna There is a Fountaine of hot water with which they heate the Church of the Monasterie and the Friers chambers It commeth also into the Kitchin so boyling hote that they vse no other fire to drâ—sse their meate and putting their Bread into brasse Pots without any water it doth bake as it were in an hot Ouen They haue also small Gardens which are couered ouer in the Winter time and being watered with this water are defended from the violence of the Frost and cold and bring forth Flowers in their due seasons The common people astonished with these strange effects conceiue highly of those Friers and bring them presents of Flesh and other things They with this Water in the extremitie of the cold heate their Chambers which also as the other buildings of the Monasterie are framed of those burning stones which the mouth of the Hill casts foorth They cast water on some of them whereby they are dissolued and become excellent
from the North-west that wee were forced back againe to seek Harbour and came to an anchor the nineteenth of Iune in Crosse-road Here we stayed two dayes much wind blowing at the North North-east till the one and twentieth of Iune and then in the after-noone the wind came to the East and by South and the weather was faire therefore at a North North-west Sunne we weighed and set sayle againe and so did the Thomas Bonauenture that came to an anchor by vs this morning beeing also bound for Faire Hauen This next day in the afternoone we were thwart of Maudlen Sound and the weather being faire and calme we sent a shallop to the Northward to see what alteration there was amongst the Ice and to seeke out some good Harbour for a ship and also to set vp the Kings Armes at Hackluyts Head-land or some other conuenient place When Master Baffin was gone from the ship in the foresaid shallop I went presently into the other shallop into Maudlen Sound there to set vp the Kings Armes and also to see if there were any Morses come ashoare when I was within the Sound I found no Beeches bare for Morses to come vpon for Ice and snow lay yet vndissolued from the shoare side but I went to the Harbour and there caused a Crosse to be set vp and the Kings Armes to bee nayled thereon vnder which also I nayled a piece of sheet Lead whereon I set the Moscouie Companies Marke with the day of the moneth and yeere of our Lord. Then cutting vp a piece of Earth which afterward I carried aboard our ship I tooke it into my hand and said in the hearing of the men there present to this effect I take this piece of Earth as a signe of lawfull possession of this Countrey of King Iames his New-land and of this particular place which I name Trinitie Harbour taken on the behalfe of the Company of Merchants called the Merchants of New Trades and Discoueries for the vse of our Souereigne Lord Iames by the grace of God King of great Brittaine France and Ireland whose Royall Armes are here set vp to the end that all people who shall here arriue may take notice of his Maiesties Right and Title to this Countrey and to euery part thereof God saue King Iames. This is a good safe harbour and is vnder the latitude of 79 degrees 34. minutes as I haue found by good obseruation and haue of Westerly variation 25. degrees When I had here set vp the Kings armes I returned toward our ship which was come to an anchor at the entrance of Faire hauen staying till the floud came because that at the Tide of Ebbe there runnes a great current out of the Sound so at the next floud we came into Faire hauen and anchored by the Gamaliel and the Thomas Bonauenture the three and twentieth day of Iune Then Iohn Mason Master of the Gamaliel came aboord of our ship and I asked him if he had any worke for our men for I would cause them to come a shore he told me that hitherto he had not seene a Whale come in but his Furnaces and Coppers were already set vp and therefore as yet he had no neede of helpe but when occasion serued he would imploy them This day about eleauen a clocke Master Baffin returned in the Shallop from the Northwards he said that he had beene at Cape Barren which is the point of an Iland three or foure leagues from Hackluits headland but further then that he could not passe for Ice which lay close to the shore and he had not set vp the Kings armes in any place On Munday the seuen and twentieth day of Iune I went forth againe in the Shallop to the Northward partly to see what alteration there might be in the Ice with the Easterly windes which had blowne hard since the Shallop last returned but chiefely to set vp the Kings armes in some place conuenient because there was none set vp to the Northwards of Maudlen sound We rowed to Cape Barren where formerly Master Baffin had bin and finding the Ice there gone from the shore we proceeded further to an Iland which now we call the Saddle in respect of the forme thereof more then a league distant from Cape Barren In our way thither it began to snow and grew to be a great and vehement storme from the West North-west therefore we hasted and got to the lee side of the aforesaid Iland and there made fast our Shallop with a grapnell laid vpon the Icie shore vsing the best meanes we could with our shallops saile to keepe vs from the extremitie of so cold an harbour we staid here eight houres and the storme continued driuing the Ice still Eastward in great abundance and with wonderfull swiftnesse when the weather began to cleere I caused the men to rowe to Leewards to another Iland a league distant which seemed then to be a Cape of the maine land purposing there to set vp the Kings armes but afterwards wee found it to be an Iland and to the maine wee could not come for broken Ice This stormie weather continued from Munday night till Friday morning during which time we had beene but eleauen leagues at the furthest from our ship yet went we so farre as we could haue gone had the weather beene neuer so faire for at foure leagues distance from Cape Barren the Ice lay firme and vnbroken two or three miles from the shore and close againe to it lay the shattered Ice thronged together with this present storme On Friday morning we came backe againe to Hackluits headland and there I set the Kings armes in the like manner as at Trinitie Harbour from thence we rowed towards our ship and as we entred into Faire-hauen there came a Whale that accompanied vs into the harbour leaping and aduancing himselfe almost quite out of the water falling headlong downe againe with great noise we hasted aboord our ship and I sent forth both our Shallops to strike this Whale if they could and told Master Mason of her comming in who also went forth in his Shallop but it seemes the Whale past vnder the Ice which lay yet vnbroken betwixt the North harbour and the South harbour for they could not see her againe The next day there came more Whales in and Robert Hambleton our Masters mate strucke two which vnluckily escaped the first for want of helpe the Gamaliels Shallop being in chase of another Whale and our owne little Shallop not able to row against a head-sea to assist the other so that at length the Whale hauing towed the Shallop forth to Sea the harping iron came out the second was also strucken within the sound and ranne vnder the Ice which lay yet vnbroken at the East end of the Sound and drew the Shallop vpon it cleare out of the water by which meanes the Harpingiron came forth Here we
shoare we searched two little Beaches which had some wood on them but nothing that we found of better value About two leagues within the Sound on the East side there is an Harbour where shippes may ride in good ground Land-lockt but if other yeeres be like this I cannot say that it is an Harbour fitting for ships because it is late ere the Sound breake vp for euen now there lay much Ice at the bottome of it insomuch that I was forcst to leaue the shallop because I could not passe with her for Ice and walke two miles ouer stonie Mountaynes with another man in my company to bee satisfied concerning a point of Land that shot into the Sound whether it were an Iland or no as by all likelihood it seemed to bee but when I came to the farthest part of it I saw it joyne to the mayne Land wherefore I called it Point Deceit because it deceiued mee so much From hence wee proceeded toward our shippe and came aboord of her in the North Harbour of Faire Hauen on Friday night being the nineteenth of August where she rid alone for Master Marmaduke was gone forth to Sea that day The two and twentieth of August Iohn Mason Master of the Gamaliell came ouer from the South Harbour for helpe to hayle vp a Whale which had beene sunke fourteene dayes in one hundred and twentie fathome depth or else to pull the Wâ—rpe and Harping Iron out of her for now it was time to take her or forsake her Master Sherwin our Master caused our long Boate to bee manned and went with him when they came where the Whale was sunke they haled and shee presently rose bolting suddenly vp with a thundring cracke made with the bursting of her bodie and notwithstanding shee had layen so long yet had shee all her Finnes fast Whilst this was in doing the Hartsease was comming into the Harbour from the Northward and anchored by our ship an houre after Here wee stayed till the seuen and twentieth of August and since my last returne hither in the shallop from the Eastwards the weather hath beene commonly warme and the Mountaynes were now more cleere of Snow then they had beene any time this yeere notwithstanding there had much snowe fallen since the beginning of this moneth but it was quite consumed and a greater signe of warmth and thaw was now to bee obserued then any time of the yeere heretofore namely by the often falling of the Ice into the Sea from the huge snowie bankes making a noyse like Thunder so that the time was very hopefull but thus wee made vse of occasion offered The seuen and twentieth of August it was faire and warme weather calme till noone then had wee a gale of winde from the South South-west wherewithall wee set sayle out of Faire-hauen in the company of the Hartsease with whom wee had beene in termes of consortship but nothing was concluded About sixe a clocke at night wee were sixe leagues from Cape Barren which bore from vs South-west and by South Wee proceeded still to the North-eastward and on the eight and twentieth day in the morning wee had runne about twentie leagues from Cape Barren in an East North-east way by the ordinary Compasse being open of Sir Thomas Smiths Inlet nine or tenne leagues from the shoare at which time wee were come to the Ice that trended East South-east and West North-west but the Sea being very rough wee stood off againe from the Ice in the afternoone it fell calme and at night we had a gale of winde at East and the ship was steered West and then South-west homewards The nine and twentieth day the winde Easterly an easie gale at foure a clockâ— in the afternoone Hackluyts Head-land bore from vs South-east by East foure leagues distant 〈…〉 was very warme The thirtieth day the winde at North-east an easie gale at foure a clocke in the afternoone Maudlon Point bore East North-east halfe a Point Easterly about three leagues distant 〈◊〉 the Euening it fell calme the weather not cold The thirtieth day faire Sunne-shine weather and calme till noone and then we had a good gale of winde from the North-east being fiue leagues distant from the Fore-land which bore South-east now wee altered our course and stood to the West-ward therefore to keepe vs still in the parallel that now wee were in which was 79. degrees 8. minutes West North-west course was directed in respect of the Variation to make good a true West way This course wee held till we had runne about twentie leagues and then wee ranne twentie leagues more in a West and by North course till one a clocke on Friday morning at which time it fell calme and wee heard the Sea make a great noyse as if wee had beene neere Land but wee rather iudged it to bee Ice as indeed it proued to bee for in the morning when it was light and cleere wee saw the Ice about a league from vs which trended Southerly hauing now a gale at East North-east wee steered away South and South South-east but in the afternoone we were embayed with a long banke of Ice which wee could not weather therefore wee were faine to tacke about and the winde hauing come more Southerly then it was in the morning wee stood off from the Ice North-east and North-east and by North and then to the Southwards againe making sundrie boardes to get forth to wind-wards of the Ice The third day before noone wee had sight againe of Ice to Westwards of vs and at noone were vnder the parallel of 78. degrees 27. minutes according to my Obseruation then wee stood a way South to keepe cleere of the Ice for wee had a great homing Sea although but little winde and therefore durst not be to bold to edge too neere it especially the wind being Easterly as then it was On the fourth day our men saw the Ice againe from the mayne top-mast head and therefore wee still maintayned a Southerly course the next day it began to be foggie and continued close weather and hazie for three dayes so that wee had no more sight of the Ice neyther could wee at this time receiue any further satisfaction concerning the same therefroe wee kept a Southerly course so neere as wee could although wee had but little winde and the same very variable till the ninth day but then wee had a good gale of winde at West North-west On the tenth day beeing Saturday wee were by my reckoning fiftie leagues distant from Low-foot which bore from vs East South-east halfe a Point Southerly this day the wind shifted to the South-west and at night came to the South with much raine then came backe againe to the West North-west and began a great storme This night the Master and others saw a light vpon the Fore-bonnet which the Saylers call a Corpo Santo it appeared like the flame of a Candle and as
ships being laden vnder the command of Captaine Thomas Edge An. 1617. Witches Iland was discouered and what voyage was made appeareth in the Letter following written to Master Decrow by William Heley Laus Deo in Portnick the 12. of August 1617. Worshipfull Sir MY dutie remembred May it please you to vnderstand that through Gods blessing our Voyage is performed in all the Harbours in the Countrie this yeere with a greater ouerplus then our ships will carry so that in some places wee must of force leaue good store of Oyle and Blubber behinde for the next yeere Wee are all for the most part readie to set sayle being full laden onely I desire to see the Coast cleere of Interlopers whereby our prouisions may be left in securitie We tooke a ship of Flushing called the Noahs Arke Master Iohn Verlile in Horne-sound hauing out of him two hundred hogsheads of Blubber and two Whales and a halfe to cut vp a great Copper and diuers other prouisions and sent him away ballasted with stones There were two more of them who were gone laden with Blubber before we could get thither hauing intelligence of our comming There were also two Danes who made one hundred and odde tunnes of Oyle and laded one ship for Copen-hauen the other with halfe the Oyle and Finnes for Amsterdam and left the Country about the sixth or seuenth of August And for Master Cudner he rid in Portnick where he killed eleuen Whales and made some seuentie and odde tunnes of Oyle which is laden aboord him and his Finnes In whom if our ships had come together thither as I desired I would haue laden fortie or fiftie tunnes of Oyle in him and displaced his men and sent him for England but bad weather hindring our ships getting thither and his sudden departure after our comming in with the Pleasure shee being laden and not sufficiently fitted to surprise him he escaped but I sent her away in company with him whereby he may not doe any hurt in other places in the Country I would haue had him to haue taken in some Oyle for which I offered him fraight so I might put some men into him to see to it and that it might be brought safe to London but he refused yet protesteth he purposeth to bring his ship and goods to London his voyage is by the thirds so that his men will rather dye then forgoe that they haue got The small ship Iohn Ellis is returned from the South Eastward hauing made some further discouery and killed some eight hundred Seamorse and laden the teeth and thirtie tunnes of hides and the rest of his lading in Oyle he brought some Sea-horse blubber with him He met with Thomas Marmaduke of Hull in those parts who had not done any thing when he saw him towards making a voyage but went for Hope Iland and no doubt but hee will doe much spoile there As for the Beare shee departed for Hamborough the third of August out of Crosse-road and the Gray-hound in company with her for England who I hope is safely arriued and by whom I hope you vnderstand of her proceedings at full The Whales killed this yeere in the Country are about one hundred and fiftie in number and the Oyle made will be about one thousand eight hundred and odde tunnes besides the blubber left for want of caske The lading of this ship is one hundred and eightie tunnes as by the Bill of lading here enclosed Thus hauing not further wherewith to acquaint your Worship withall praying God to send all home in safety with a good passage I humbly take my leaue and doe rest Readie at your Worships command in all dutifull seruice WILLIAM HELEY A Letter of Master ROBERT SALMON to Master SHERWIN In Sir THOMAS SMITHES Bay the 24. of Iune 1618. LOuing friend Master Sherwine I kindly salute you wishing you as much prosperitie as vnto my selfe c. Since our comming into the Bay we haue beene much troubled with Ice and Northerly windes so as we haue not beene two dayes free of Ice We had a storme Northerly which brought in much Ice so as we were inclosed withall eight dayes therâ— went such a Sea in the Ice that did beate our ships very much for foure and twentie houres that I did thinke we should haue spoyled our ships but I thanke God we cannot perceiue any hurt at all it hath done to vs also we haue broken two anchors with the Ice we haue killed thirteene Whales but they yeeld but little in regard of the Ice which hath much hindred vs in our worke for in ten dayeâ— we could not doe any worke the Bay was so full of Ice the Bay was full as low as Fox noâ—e and now at this present the Bay is full of shattered Ice the windes hanging Northerly keepes it in Here is fiue sayle of Flemmings which haue fourteene and sixteene pieces of Ordnance in a ship and they doe man out eighteene Shallops so that with theirs and ours here is thirtie Shallops in the Bay too many for vs to make a voyage there is at the least fifteene hundred tunnes of shipping of the Flemmings we haue reasonable good quarter with them for we are merry aboord of them and they of vs they haue good store of Sacks and are very kinde to vs proffering vs any thing that we want I am very doubtfull of making a voyage this yeere yet I hope Crosse-road will helpe vs for one ship the Company must take another course the next yeere if they meane to make any benefit of this Country they must send better ships that must beat these knaues out of this Country but as farre as I can vnderstand by them they meane to make a trade of continuance of it they haue euery one of them Graue Maurices Commission vnder his Hand and Seale we will let them rest this yeere and let who will take care the next yeere for I hope not to trouble them I pray remember my dutie to the Captaine and also to honest Master Thornbush and to Iohn Martin Master Smith doth remember his loue to you and to all the rest of his friends we are well at this present I thanke God I pray let vs heare from you when you haue any conuayance I hope wee shall goe home in companie together as wee came out Thus with my loue once againe remembred to you beseeching God to send vs all a prosperous voyage and ioyfully to meet I rest A Letter of Master TH. SHERWIN Bell-sound this 29. of Iune 1618. MAster William Heley your Letter I receiued wherein I vnderstand you haue tooke very great griefe which I am very sorry for but I am in good hope to come to you my selfe one of these dayes that I may comfort you with a good couple of Hennes and a bottle of Canary wine but I pray bee carefull of your selfe and keepe you warme and take heede the Nodis doe not pick out your eyes but as for the Flemmings let
them all go hang themselues and although you be not strong enough to meddle with them yet the worst wordes are too good for them the time may come you may be reuenged on them againe The Captaine wishes they would come all into Bell-sound and beat vs out and carry vs for Holland here is a great fleet of them in this Country Here came in two Flemmings but wee handled them very honestly but for feare of after-claps or had it beene the latter part of the yeere we would haue handled them better now they be gone for Horne-sound I would that they had all of them as good a paire of hornes growing on their heads as is in this Country As concerning our voyage Master Salmon can certifie you both in Horne-sound and in our harbour My brother Busse Iohn Martin and I dranke to you and wish you many a Venison pasty We haue so little to doe wee feare we shall all haue the Scuruy but we haue pulled downe the Flemmish house and brought it neere more fit for our turne Thus praying you to remember my loue to all at Faire-hauen I cease with my prayers to God to send you and vs all a prosperous voyage with all your good health that we may goe merrily home together A Letter of IAMES BEVERSHAM to Master HELEY From Faire-hauen the 12. of Iuly 1618. MAster Heley My commendations remembred to your selfe Master Salmon Master Smith and Master Beymond as also to Master Wilkenson Mate Headland Master Greene and the rest of our good friends with you wishing all your healths as my owne I am very sorry to vnderstand of the annoyances by the Flemmings both with you and other places as also of the small hope there is in making a voyage this yeere For our parts we are and haue beene so pestered with Ice these twentie dayes that we haue not beene able to goe out to Sea with our Shallops aboue twice in the time neither haue we beene able to doe any good by reason of foule weather and fogs nor haue seene any more then one Whale in all that time which after shee was killed turned vs to much trouble by reason of foule weather and forced vs at last to leaue her in the Ice where the Beares made a prey of her who I feare will spoyle her before shee be recouered We haue killed sixteene Whales besides whereof the Flemmish Biscainer stole one for which they haue promised satisfaction but they are so shut vp with Ice that they are not able to stirre either Ships or Shallops All the Sea to the Northward of Hakluyts headland and both Eastward and Westward thereof is packt so full of Ice that I feare it will ouerthrow our voyage and put our ships in much hazard the Lord release vs of that miserie in due time I neither haue nor will be slack to doe my best endeuours for the good of the voyage the prosperitie whereof I doe much wish and desire both here and in all other places I pray remember my loue to the Captaine by your next conuoy to the Southward with my commendations to all the rest of our friends thus for present wishing your health I kindly take my leaue and rest your louing friend I had thought to haue added a large Discourse of occurrents betwixt the Dutch and English in Greenland this 1618. and had prepared it to the Presse But hauing alreadie giuen some Relation thereof from Captaine Edge c. and seeing the insolencies of some of the Dutch were intolerable to English spirits which then suffered or hereafter should reade them I chose rather to passe them by aduising my Countrimen not to impute to that Nation what some frothy spirit vomits from amidst his drinke but to honor the Hollanders worth and to acknowledge the glorie of the Confederate Prouinces howsoeuer they also haue their sinks and stinking â—ewers too officious mouthes such as some in this businesse of Greenland beyond all names of impudence against his Maiestie and his Leege people as others elsewhere haue demeaned themselues whose lothsomnesse is not to be cast as an aspersion to that industrious and illustrious Nation Euery Body hath its excrements euery great House its Vault or Iakes euery Citie some Port exquiline and dunghils euery Campe the baggage the World it selfe a Hell and so hath euery Nation the retriments sâ—umme dregs rascalitie intempered distempered spirits which not fearing God nor reuerencing Man spare not to spue out that to the dishonor of both which sauing the honor of both can scarsly be related after them A difference is to be made of relation and personall faults of which we haue said enough in the East India quarrels twixt ours and the Dutch A Letter of IOHN CHAMBERS to W. HELEY Bel-sound Iune 16. 1619. LOuing and approued good friend Master William Heley c. I am forc't to write in teares vnto you for the losse of our Men by the most vncouth accident that euer befell vnto poore men The thirteenth of Iune last we were put ashore in the Ice Bay our Shallops being not aboord but as soone as wee heard of it we made what haste we could and haled our shallops vpon the Ice and went aboord our ship By that time we had beene there an houre making what meanes we could to get her out a maine peece of the Cliffe falling the fearefullest sight that euer I beheld being then aboord expecting nothing else but death with all the rest that were in her But God of his great mercie and prouidence deliuered vs that were not then appointed to dye that were past all hope of life for the Ice fell so high and so much that it carried away our fore-Mast broke our maine-Mast sproung our Bouldstrit and fetcht such a careere that she heaued a piece of Ordnance ouer-boord from vnder our halfe Decke houe me ouer boord amongst the Ice in all the sea and yet I thanke the Lord I was neuer hurt with a piece of Ice although it pleased God they were spoyled and killed close by me Thus hauing related vnto you the miserie of this our Voyage hoping of your aide and assistance in what you may I shall be euer bound to pray for you The Captaine bid me write vnto you for a fiue inch Haser which I pray you spare me and it be possible I haue writ the particular of our wants in my Brother Sherwins Letter which I pray you be a meanes to further me in Thus ceasing any further to trouble you I commit you vnto the Lord vnto whom I pray to blesse and prosper you in this your present Voyage with all the rest of your dayes The men that are killed are these My Mate Money Nicholas Greene and Allin the Butcher There be many more hurt which I hope will recouer it by the helpe of God and the meanes of a good Surgeon LOuing friend Master Heley I kindely salute you c. Your Letter I receiued the fifth of this present
you will haue sufficient for your selues and to helpe your neighbours the which I desire may be Other newes I haue none to write you So desiring God to blesse you in your proceedings in this your Voyage I take my leaue Resting Your louing friend to command ROBERT SALMON Iun. Nine Ships were imployed Anno 1622. of which one for Discouerie Their disastrous successe you may reade before page 469. The last Fleete Anno 1623. was set forth by the former Aduenturers vnder the command of Captaine William Goodlard William Heley being Vice-admirall Of the successe thereof you may read the Letters following Laus Deo in Faire-Hauen the foure and twentieth of Iune 1623. MAster Heley your health wished as also a happy accomplishment of your pretended Voyage desired I had written you according to order of all matters happening since our arriuall had not contrarie windes and weather premented and therefore haue taken the first opportunitie offering as present Wee arriued at our harbour with both our Ships in safetie vpon the third of this present blessed be God finding the yeare past to haue beene a verie hard season in regard of the great quantitie of Snow and lee but yet not very offensiue to vs in respect of our good harbour Touching our proceeding vpon our Voyage by the eight of this present we had killed thirteene Whales and then were all our Shallops constrained in by reason of foule weather till the fifteenth dicto and vpon the fifteenth we killed two more which being all boyled but the heads and then estimated will hardly make past eightie Tunnes which is a very small quantitie The weather continued bad till the twentie two dicto and vpon the three and twentieth we killed three more which by probabilitie will make neere fortie Tunnes And thus wee doubt not but by degrees we shall accomplish our Voyage by the grace of God As touching our order for the Flemmings wee went as yesterday aboord them supposing that wee should haue found the Danes there but they are not as yet arriued but wee found there fiue sailes of Flemmings the Admirall fiue hundred Tunnes the Vice-admirall of the same burthen the other three were two hundred each Ship hauing also fiftie or sixtie persons amongst them hauing foure and twentie Shallops belonging to their fiue Ships and are building Houses and Tabernacles to inhabit for they make new and substantially also they told vs they expected one or two Ships more euerie day after same time we had conference concerning the order giuen vs with the Generall Cornelius Ice and declared vnto him that the time granted them to fish vpon King Iames his New Land was expired and thereupon his Maiestie hath granted to our Principals a Commission vnder the broad Seale of England for the depressing of any Interloper or Flemming whatsoeuer that we shall meete withall vpon this Coast yet notwithstanding it pleased our Principals to appoint vs to goe aboord them and in a louing manner to informe them hereof which if you will condescend vnto the desist fishing you shall manifest your selues friends to our Principals if otherwise you shall cause them to compell by force who had rather perswade by loue Vnto which he answered that he heard of no such matter in Holland for if there were it should be certified by writing to which we answered that Sir Nowel Carroon their Agent was not ignorant of it who should giue information and saith he I haue a Commission from the Prince of Orange for the making of my Voyage vpon this Coast which was procured by my Merchants for my defence and this is that could be gotten by words from him Also at our first arriuall there rode two Biskie shippes with the Flemmings but within a day or two they waied and stood for the Southward but inquired of the Flemmings what port they were bound for they answered for the North Cape but Master Mason is perswaded they are at Greene-harbour to which purpose I wrote to Master Catcher that he giues order to his shallop that goes to Bel-sound to stand in for the harbour to giue the Captaine true information And so for present I rest intreating you to remember me to Master Salmon and Master Iohn Hadland and thus contracting my sailes lest the winde of my words carrie me into the Ocean of discourse here I anchor resting Your friend NATHANIEL FANNE Master CATCHERS Letter the nine and twentieth of Iune 1623. BRother Heley with my best loue I salute you wishing your health with a prosperous Voyage c. Since our departure we haue had much foule weather and troubled with Ice before we could get into harbour and after we came into harbour we neuer let fall anchor by reason of the Ice till the sixteenth of this month in which time we killed sixe Whales at the Fore-land which made but eighteene Tuns and a halfe and since we haue killed sixe Whales more which I hope will make in all vpwards of eightie Tunnes We haue fit nine Shallops verie well and I thanke God not one of our Men faileth saue one that was shot accidentally with a Musket I hope some of the Shutberne harbours will supply our wants if there be any which I feare there will our harbour manie say still is vnpossible to make a Voyage by reason that the Flemmings shed bloud there which I pray God to take that plague from vs. For Faire-hauen A doubt not but that you shall heare by the Letters sent you of the proceedings but Master Sherwin writ that there is fiue Flemmings of fiue hundred Tunnes a peece there was also two Biscainers which the English nor Flemmings would suffer to fish therefore they departed and said they would goe for the North Cape but I thinke they are in Greene-harbour or gone to the Eastward which if they be in Greene-harbour our Shallop going to Bel-sound shall touch there to see and so certifie the Captaine and know his will what he would haue done in it I hold it not fit that they should harbour there There are no Danes in the Countrie as yet c. Captaine WILLIAM GOODLARD'S Letter Bell-sound this eight of Iuly 1623. LOuing friend Master Heley I kindely salute you wishing health to you with the rest of your companie praising the Lord for your good successe in your fishing To certifie you of our proceedings wee haue killed here in Bel-sound three and thirtie Whales and lost manie more by Irons broken yet I hope sufficient to fill our ships we haue boiled a hundred and eightie Tunnes of which a hundred and sixtie aboord our Ship and make account sixtie tunnes more will fill our hould Our Whales here proue verie watrish and leane which maketh bad Oyle and hindereth vs much in boyling This present day our shallop came from the Fore-land at which time they had killed fifteene Whales verie small and are verie doubtfull of a Voyage there if God sendeth fish into this harbour I will not spare till I haue
as he sate in his Imperiall seat and the-also a famous Merchant of Netherland being newly come to Mosco who gaue him selfe out to be the King of Spaines subiect called Iohn de Wale was in like sort called for Some of the Nobilitie would haue preferred this subiect of the Spaniard before Master Horsey seruant to the Queen of England whereunto Master Horsey would in no case agree saying hee would haue his legges cut off by the knees before hee would yeelde to such an indignitie offered to his Soueraigne the Queenes Maiestie of England to bring the Emperour a present in course after the King of Spaines subiect or any other whatsoeuer The Emperour and the Prince Boris Pheodorowich perceuing the controuersie sent the Lord Treasurer Peter Iuanowich Galauyn and Vasili Shalkan both of the Counsell to them who deliuered the Emperour backe Master Horseys speech whereupon he was first in order as good reason admitted and presented the Emperour in the behalfe of the English Merchants trading thither a present wishing him ioy and long to raigne in tranquilitie and so kissed the Emperours hand he accepting the present with good liking and auouching that for his Sisters sake Queene Elizabeth of England he would be a gracious Lord to her Merchants in as ample manner as euer his Father had beene and being dismissed he had the same day sent him seauentie dishes of sundry kinds of meats with three carts laden with al sorts of drinks very bountifully After him was the foresaid subiect of the Spanish King admitted with his present whom the Emperor willed to be no lesse faithfull seruiceable vnto him then the Queen of Englands subiects were had been then the King of Spains subiects shold receiue fauor accordingly All these things thus in order performed prayses were sung in all the Churches The Emperour and Empresse very deuoutly resorted on foote to many principal Churches in the Citie and vpon Trinitie Sunday betooke themselues to a progresse in order of procession to a famous Monasterie called Sergius and the Trinitie sixtie miles distant from the Citie of Mosco accompanied with a huge armie of Noblemen Gentlemen and others mounted vpon goodly Horses with furniture accordingly The Empresse of deuotion tooke this iourney on foote all the way accompanyed with her Princesses and Ladies no small number her Guard and Gunners were in number twentie thousand her chiefe Counsellor or Attendant was a noble man of the bloud Royall her Vncle of great authoritie called Demetri Iuanowich Godonoua All this progresse ended both the Emperour and Empresse returned to Mosco shortly after the Emperour by the direction of the Prince Boris Pheodorowich sent a power into the Land of Siberia where all the rich Sables and Furres are gotten This power conquered in one yeere and a halfe one thousand miles In the performance of this warre there was taken prisoner the Emperour of the Country called Chare Sibersky and with him many other Dukes and Noble men which were brought to Mosco with a guard of Souldiers and Gunners who were receiued into the Citie in very honourable manner and doe there remaine to this day Hereupon the corrupt Officers Iudges Iustices Captaines and Lieutenants through the whole Kingdome were remooued and more honest men substituted in their places with expresse commandement vnder seuere punishment to surcease their old bribing and extortion which they had vsed in the old Emperours time and now to execute true iustice without respect of persons and to the end that this might be the better done their lands and yeerly stipends were augmented the great taskes customes and duties which were before laid vpon the people in the old Emperours time were now abated and some wholly remitted and no punishments commanded to be vsed without sufficient and due proofe although the crime were capitall deseruing death many Dukes and Noble men of great Houses that were vnder displeasure and imprisoned twentie yeeres by the old Emperour were now set at libertie and restored to their lands all prisoners were set at libertie and their trespasses forgiuen In summe a great alteration vniuersally in the gouernment followed and yet all was done quietly ciuilly peaceably without trouble to the Prince or offence to the Subiect and this bred great assurance and honour to the Kingdome and all was accomplished by the wisedome especially of Irenia the Empresse These things being reported and carried to the eares of the Kings and Princes that were borderers vpon Russia they grew so fearfull and terrible to them that the Monarch of all the Scythians called the Crim Tartar or great Can himselfe named Sophet Keri Alli came out of his owne Countrie to the Emperour of Russia accompanied with a great number of his Nobilitie well horsed although to them that were Christians they seemed rude yet they were personable men and valiant their comming was gratefull to the Emperour and their entertainment was honourable the Tartar Prince hauing brought with him his wiues also receiued of the Russe Emperour entertainment and Princely welcome according to their estates Not long after one thousand and two hundred Polish Gentlemen valiant Souldiers and proper men came to Mosco offering their seruice to the Emperour who were all entertayned and in like sort many Chirkasses and people of other Nations came and offered seruice And as soone as the report of this new created Emperour was spred ouer other Kingdomes of Europe there were sent to him sundrie Ambassadors to wish him ioy and prosperitie in his Kingdome thither came Ambassadors from the Turke from the Persian the Bogharian the Crim the Georgian and many other Tartar Princes There came also Ambassadors from the Emperour of Almaine the Pole the Swethen the Dane c. And since his Coronation no enemie of his hath preuailed in his attempts It fell out not long after that the Emperour was desirous to send a message to the most excellent Queene of England for which seruice he thought no man fitter then Master Ierome Horsey supposing that one of the Queenes owne men and subiects would bee the more acceptable to her The summe of which message was That the Emperor desired a continuance of that league friendship amitie and intercourse of traffique which was betweene his Father and the Queenes Maiestie and her Subiects with other priuate affaires besides which are not to bee made common Master Horsey hauing receiued the Letters and Requests of the Emperour prouided for his iourney ouer Land and departed from Mosco the fift day of September thence vnto Otuer to Torshook to great Nouogrod to Vobskie and thence to Nyhouse in Liuonia to Wenden and so to Riga where he was beset and brought forthwith before a Cardinall called Rageuil but yet suffered to passe in the end From thence to Mito to Golden and Libou in Curland to Memel to Koningsburgh in Prussia to Elbing to Dantzike to Stetine in Pomerland to Rostock to Lubeck to Hamborough to Breme to Emden and by
Sea to London Being arriued at her Maiesties Royal Court and hauing deliuered the Emperours Letters with good fauour and gracious acceptance he was forthwith againe commanded to repasse into Russia with other Letters from her Maiestie to the Emperour and Prince Boris Pheodorowich answering the Emperours Letters and withall requesting the fauour and friendship which his Father had yeelded to the English Merchants and hereunto was he earnestly also solicited by the Merchants of London themselues of that Companie to deale in their behalfe Being thus dispatched from London by Sea he arriued in Mosco the twentieth of Aprill 1586. and was very honourably welcommed and for the Merchants behoofe obtayned all his Requests being therein specially fauoured by the Noble Prince Boris Pheodorowich who alwayes affected Master Horsey with speciall liking And hauing obtayned priuiledges for the Merchants he was recommended from the Emperour againe to the Queene of England his Mistresse by whom the Prince Boris in token of his honourable and good opâ—nion of the Queenes Maiestie sent her Highnesse a Royall present of Sables Luzarns cloth of Gold and other rich things So that the Companie of English Merchants next to their thankfulnesse to her Maiestie are to account Master Horseys paines their speciall benefit who obtayned for them those priuiledges which in twentie yeeres before would not be granted The manner of Master Horseys last dispatch from the Emperour because it was very honorable I thought good to record Hee was freely allowed post-horses for him and his seruants victuals and all other necessaries for his long iourney at euery Towne that he came vnto from Mosco to Vologda which is by Land fiue hundred miles he receiued the like free and bountifull allowances at the Emperours charge New victuall and prouision were giuen him vpon the Riuer Dwina at euery Towne by the Kings Officers being one thousand miles in length When he came to the new Castle called Archangel he was receiued of the Duke Knez Vasili Andrewich Isuâ—nogorodsky by the Emperours Commission into the Castle Gunners being set in rankes after their vse where he was sumptuously feasted from thence he was dispatched with bountifull prouision and allowance in the Dukes Boat with one hundred men to rowe him and one hundred Gunners in other Boats to conduct him with a Gentleman Captaine of the Gunners Comming to the Road where the English Dutch and French ships rode the Gunners discharged and the shippes shot in like manner fortie sixe pieces of their Ordnance and so hee was brought to his lodging at the English house vpon Rose Iland And that which was the full and complete conclusion of the fauour of the Emperour and Boris Pheodorowich toward Master Horsey there were the next day sent him for his further prouision vpon the Sea by a Gentleman and a Captaine the things following Sixteene liue Oxen seuentie Sheepe six hundred Hens fiue and twentie flitches of Bacon eightie bushels of Meale six hundred loaues of bread two thousand Egges ten Geese two Cranes two Swannes sixtie fiue gallons of Meade fortie gallons of Aquavitae sixtie gallons of Beere three young Beares foure Hawkes store of Onions and Garleeke ten fresh Salmons a wilde Boare All these things were brought him downe by a Gentleman of the Emperours and another of Prince Boris Pheodorowich and were receiued in order by Iohn Frese seruant to Master Horsey together with an honourable present and reward from the Prince Boris sent him by Master Francis Cherry an English man which present was a whole very rich piece of cloth of Gold and a faire paire of Sables IVan Vasilowich is reported to haue had seauen Wiues and of them to haue left three children suruiuing Theodore or Pheodore and Demetrius a yongling by his last wife and a Daughter which was the wife of L. Boris aforesaid whose sister Pheodore had married in his Fathers life time who would haue caused her diuorse for her barrennesse as he had caused Iuan his eldest sonne diuers times to doe and his refusing it at last was the occasion of that angry last and fatall blow before mentioned but being protracted by faire excuses for a time the diuorse of soule and body in the Father preuented that in the marriage bed of the Sonne Yet by his Testament he ordained that if within two yeares she proued not fruitfull hee should marrie another The executers vrged this after that terme expired but Gernia or Irenia so wrought with her husband that their counsels were frustrate wherein she was assisted by the politicke wisdome of her brother Boris who was now become chiefe Pilot though not the Master in that Russian ship and is said formerly to haue beene no small doer in those cruel designes of Iuan his deceassed Master yet had he cunningly cast the blame on him now dead and wisely insinuated into the people fauour by mitigating the seueritie of his Decrees You haue read before of his great Reuenues and wealth recorded by eye witnesses Thuanus saith that three hundred of the Knazeys and Boiarens whereof the Senate of the Empire consisted by aduise of the Executors had subscribed Boris made the simpler Emperor beleeue that it was a conspiracie against him whereupon they were all committed ten of which whom he thought his most dangerous aduersaries were suddainly and priuily executed to the rest he procured the Emperours pardon and fauour seeming very sorrowfull that this clemency had beene so much foreslowed and that the hastie execution had preuented his officious indeuors for their deliuerance And that he might seem serious he got their goods to be restored to their heires so working himselfe into the good liking of all degrees But soone after yong Demetrius the Emperours brother was slaine as hee was going to Church betwixt two Boiarens by a mad man as he seemed who was thereupon suddenly slaine but the author which set him on worke could not be found whereupon Boris was suspected to affect the soueraigntie Thuanus elsewhere telleth that hee corrupted those which were about Demetrius and the great Bell being rung as is vsuall in cases of fire to bring the people together Demetrius at that noise running forth some were set in that tumult to kil him which accordingly was effected as he was comming downe a Ladder the rumour whereof caused the tumultuous people making no curious search for the doers to kil those of the Family which they met in their furie to put the suspition thereof from themselues which notwithstanding Boris exercised seuerer tortures and terrible executions vpon them and as one which hartily execrated the fact burned the fort to expiate the parricide This place being farre remote from the Court whither he was thought purposely to haue sent him could not admit so open euidence of manifold testimony but that it gaue occasion of other Tragedies by another supposed Demetrius as shall anon appeare Meane while Boris could not escape aspersion of the fact past and suspition of like
arriued at the East Indies especially the English seated commodiously for that discouerie and to reigne ouer the Northerne and Westerne Ocean haue herein beene more then industrious Doctor Powell in his historie of Wales saith that Madoc sonne of Owen Guyneth left the Land in contention betwixt his brethren and prepared certaine ships with men and munition and sought aduentures by Sea sayling West and leauing the Coast of Ireland so farre North that hee came vnto a Land vnknowne where he saw many strange things There hee left many of his people An. 1170. and returned for more of his owne Nation and Friends to inhabite that large Countrie going the second time thither with ten sailes This westerne Land is like to be some part of the West Indies though the vniuersall sauagenes of those parts make it questionable where But he which seeth how some of our English in small time haue growne wilde in Ireland and become in language and qualities Irish few of whom doe in exchange become ciuilized and English euen as healthfull men are easier infected in a contagious aire then sicke men recouered in that which is wholsome and sound will not wonder that in so many Ages the halfe ciuilized Welsh amongst Barbarians without succession of Priests and entercourse of these parts might wholly put on feritie Meredith ap Rise a Welsh Poet which liued before Columbus had begun his discouerie hath these verses Madoc wyf myedic wedd Iawn Genau Owyn Guynedd Ni finnum dir fy enaid oedd Na da Mawr ond y moroedd that is Madoc I am the sonne of Owen Gwynedd With stature large and comely grace adorned No lands at home nor store of wealth me please My mind was whole to search the Ocean seas Columbus also sent his brother Bartholomew to King Henrie the seuenth to make offer of his seruice in the New-Worlds discouerie which fell by the way into the hands of Pirats whereupon pouertie assaulted him with sicknesse in a forraine Countrie so that hee was forced to get somewhat about him by making of Maps one whereof had this more ancient then elegant inscription Ianua cui patria est nomen cui Bartholomaeus Columbus de Terra Rubra opus edidit istud Londonijs An. Domini 1480. atque insuper anno Octauo decimaque die cum tertia mensis Februarij Laudes Christo cantentur abundè Whose Countrie Genua is whose name Bartholomew Colon de Terra Rubra this worke set forth new At London A thousand foure hundred eightie Februarie thirteenth sing praise to Christ on height One of these Maps hee presented to King Henrie with the said offer who cheerfully accepted the same and sent to call his brother into England who before he could effect it was imployed by the Kings of Castile Columbus his fortunes awakned others industrie amongst the rest Iohn Cabota a Venetian and his three sonnes Lewis Sebastian and Sancius who obtayned a Patent of King Henrie the seuenth for discouerie with fiue ships with English Masters Mariners and Colours also the same to erect in whatsoeuer Lands vnknowne before to Christians to hold the same to them and their Heires as Vassals and Lieutenants to the Crowne of England paying the fifth part of their gaine at Bristoll c. In the yeere 1497. Iohn Cabot a Venetian and Sebastian his sonne these are the wordes of the great Map in his Maiesties priuie Gallerie of which Sebastian Cabot is often therein called the Authour and his Picture is therein drawne with this Title Effigies Sebast. Caboti Angli filij Io. Ca. Venetiani Militis Aurati c. discouered that Land which no man before had attempted Iun. 24. about fiue in the morning This Land he called Prima vista primum visam or first seene because that was first descried from Sea That Iland which lyeth out before the land he called Saint Iohns Iland because on that feast day it was discouered The Inhabitants weare beasts skins and as much esteeme them as we doe garments most precious In their warres they vse Bowes Arrowes Pikes Darts Clubs of wood and Slings The soile is barren in some places and yeeldeth little fruit but it is full of white Beares and Stags of vnusuall greatnesse It aboundeth with Fishes and those great as Seales and Salmons Soles also an elle long Especially there is great store of those fishes which they call commonly Bacallaos There breede also Hawkes as blacke as Rauens Partridges and blacke Eagles Thus wee see New-found Land discouered by English Ships Mariners and iurisdiction Sir Sebastian Cabot for his English breeding conditions affection and aduancement termed an English man thus reported of this voyage That vpon occasion of the admiration of Columbus his voyage into the East where Spices grew by the West so rife then in the Court of King Henrie the seuenth there arose in his heart a great desire to attempt some notable thing And vnderstanding by the Sphere saith he that if I should saile by the North-west I should by a shorter Tract come into India I thereupon caused the King to be aduertised of my deuise who immediately commanded two Caruels to bee furnished with all things appertayning to the Voyage which was as farre as I remember in the yeere 1496. in the beginning of Summer I beganne therefore to saile toward the North-west not thinking to find any other Land then that of Cathay and from thence to turne toward India But after certaine dayes I found that the Land turned toward the North which was to me a great displeasure Neuerthelesse sayling along by the Coast to see if I could finde any Gulfe that turned I found the Land still continent to the 56. degree vnder our Pole And seeing that there the Coast turned toward the East despayring to finde the passage I turned backe againe and sayled downe by the Coast of that Land toward the Equinoctiall euer with intent to finde the said passage to India and came to that part of this firme land which is now called Florida where my victuals fayling I returned towards England the tumults and preparations of warres against Scotland caused that then no more consideration was had to this voyage Whereupon I went into Spaine c. By the King and Queene there he was set forth and discouered the Riuer of Plate and sayled into it more then sixe score leagues After this he made many other voyages c. Sir Seb. Cabot was after by King Edward the sixt constituted grand Pilot of England with the annuall stipend of one hundred and sixtie six pounds thirteene shillings and foure pence and was Author of the Russian and North-easterne discoueries Fabian in his Chronicle A. R. Hen. 7.14 hath this testimonie This yeere also were brought vnto the King three men taken in the New-found Land in William Purchas time being Major These were clothed in beasts skins and did eate raw flesh and spake such speech that none could vnderstand them and in their
the Hauen of Saint Iohn the third day of August written in haste 1527. By your seruant Iohn Rut to his vttermost of his power I haue by me also Albert de Prato's originall Letter in Latin stile almost as harsh as the former English and bearing the same date and was indorsed Reuerend in Christo Patri Domino Domino Cardinali Domino Legat◠Angliae and began Reuerendissime in Christo Pater salutem Reuerendissime Pater plaeceat Reuerendissima peternitati vestra scire Deo fauente post quam exiuimus à Plemut quae fuit x. Iunij c. the substance is the same with the former and therefore omitted Datum apud le Baya Saint Iohan in Terris Nouis die x. Augusti 1527. Reuer Patr. vest humilis seruus Albertus de Prato the name written in the lowest corner of the sheet The voyage of Captaine GEORGE WEYMOVTH intended for the discouerie of the North-west Passage toward China with two flye Boates. ON Sunday the second day of May 1602. in the afternoone I weighed anchor and set saile from Redcliffe with two Fly-boates the one called the Discouery of seuentie Tunnes and the other called the God speed of sixtie Tunnes to discouer the North-west passage hauing in my ships fiue and thirtie men and boyes throughly victualled and abundantly furnished with all necessaries for a yeere and an halfe by the right Worshipfull Merchants of the Moscouie and Turkie Companies who for the better successe of the voyage prouided mee of a great trauailer and learned Minister one Master Iohn Cartwright The Master vnder mee in the Discouerie was one William Cobreth a skilfull man in his profession and in the God speed one Iohn Drewe and Mate in the said ship one Iohn Lane The first of Iune we descried Buquhamnes in the Latitude of 57. degrees The second day we saw the Point of Buquhamnes North-west from vs being a very smooth land and the land by it to the Southward riseth with many Homocks There lyeth a ledge of Rockes hard by the Nesse in a sandie Bay faire by the shore When we came neer the land we met with a fisher Boat and I agreed with one of the fisher men to carry me betweene the Isles of Orkney because I was not acquainted with the coast The fourth day at ten of the clocke wee descried the Isles of Orkney Some of those Southerne Ilands are prettie high land but the Northerne Iland which is called the Start is very low land There is no danger giuing the shore a good birth vnlesse it be by the Norther point of the Start there doth a ledge of Rockes lye a mile from the shoare At noone I found my selfe to be in the latitude of 59. degrees and 30. minutes the point of the Start bearing West and at one of the clocke in the afternoone we saw a faire I le which bare North-east and by North from vs and at eight of the clocke at night wee were North of the Start Then I directed my course West and by North. The fifth day about ten of the clocke in the morning we ranne some tenne leagues and then we saw two small Ilands some two leagues off and at eight and nine of the clocke we saw foure or fiue Boats of Fisher-men and spake with one of them and they were Scottish-men The sixt in the morning fell much raine and lasted till nine of the clocke and at ten of the clocke it cleared vp and became very faire weather and very temperate and warme and our course was West The seauenth the winde was at East and by North faire weather and our course West The eight at noone I obserued the Sunne and found vs to be in 59. degrees and fortie seuen minutes and we ran West South-west The twelfth day we held our course West the winde at East North-east with fogge in the morning at noone I obserued the Sunne and found my selfe in 57. degrees and 55. minutes the variation here was nothing at all The thirteenth at noone our course was West and by North the winde at North-east with fogge some three or foure houres and then cleare againe the ayre very warme as in England in the moneth of May. The foureteenth was faire weather and the winde at East North-east and our course West and by North. The fifteenth much raine all the forenoone our course West the winde at East and by North. The sixteenth the winde was at North North-east with much raine winde and fogge In the forenoone being very cold and at noone I obserued the Sun and found vs to be in 57. degrees and 35. minutes we found the variation to be eleuen degrees Westward and by that meane I found my selfe to be one degree more to the Southward then we should haue bin by our course for we could not see the Sunne in 96. houres before this day at noone and at our last obseruation before this which was the twelfth day we could not finde any variation at all Then we stood close by a winde to the Westward the winde being at North North-east The seauenteenth wee ranne North and by West the winde at North North-east faire weather This day we saw many gray Gulles and some Pigions The eighteenth at noone I obserued the Sunne and found our selues to be in the latitude of 59. degrees and 51. minutes And then we first descried a great Iland of Ice which lay North from vs as farre as we could ken it from the head of our maine topmast and about two of the clocke in the afternoone we saw the South part of Groneland North from vs some ten leagues As we coasted this Ice to the Northward we found it to be a maine banke of Ice for we saw the other end of it to beare West North-west from vs the winde being at South South-west little winde Then we ranne West South-west to cleere vs of the Ice The nineteenth the winde was at East South-east with some small raine The twentieth our course was West North-west the winde being at North and by East little winde This day sometimes we came into blacke water as thicke as puddle and in sailing a little space the water would be cleare againe Seeing this change of water so often to be thick and cleare againe so suddenly we imagined it had beene shallow water then we founded and could fetch no ground in one hundred and twenty fathomes and the Sea was so smooth that we could discerne no current at all At this time I reckoned the Cape of desolation to beare North North-east twentie foure leagues from vs. The one and twentieth the winde was variable The two and twentieth we were in the latitude of 60. degrees and 37. minutes the winde being at West wee ranne North and by West The seauen and twentieth the winde was at West South-west then our course was North-west and by North the weather faire and warme as in England in
vnto them that I would not offer any violence vnto them for so doing And indeede they had drawn in writing the causes of their bearing vp of the helme and thereunto set their hands and would haue left them in my Cabin but by good chance I vnderstood their pretence and preuented them for that time The twentieth day I called the chiefest of my Company into my Cabin before Master Iohn Cartwright our Preacher and our Master William Cobreth to heare what reasons they could alleadge for the bearing vp of the Helme which might he an ouerthrow to the Voyage seeing the Merchants had bin at so great a charge with it After much conference they deliuered mee their reasons in writing Concluding that although it were granted that we might winter betweene 60. and 70. degrees of latitude with safetie of our liues and Vessels yet it will be May next before wee can dismore them to lanch out into the Sea And therefore if the Merchants should haue purpose to proceede on the discouerie of these North-west parts of America the next yeare you may be in the aforesaid latitudes for England by the first of May and so be furnished better with men and victuals to passe and proceede in the aforesaid action Seeing then that you cannot assure vs of a safe harbour to the Northward wee purpose to beare vp the Helme for England yet with this limitation that if in your wisedome you shall thinke good to make any discouery either in 60. or 57. degrees with this faire Northerly winde we yeelde our liues with your selfe to encounter any danger Thus much we thought needefull to signifie as a matter builded vpon reason and not proceeding vpon feare or cowardise Then wee being in the latitude of 68. degrees and 53. minutes the next following about eleuen of the clocke they bare vp the Helme being all so bent that there was no meanes to perswade them to the contrary At last vnderstanding of it I came forth of my Cabin and demanded of them who bare vp the Helme They answered me One and All. So they hoysed vp all the sayle they could and directed their course South and by West The two and twentieth I sent for the chiefest of those which were the cause of the bearing vp of the Helme and punished them seuerely that this punishment might be a warning to them afterward for falling into the like mutinie In the end vpon the intreatie of Master Cartwright our Preacher and the Master William Cobreaths vpon their submission I remitted some part of their punishment At twelue of the clocke at noone wee came hard by a great Iland of Ice the Sea being very smooth and almost calme wee hoysed out the Boates of both our Shippes being in want of fresh water and went to this Iland to get some Ice to make vs fresh water And as wee were breaking off some of this Ice which was verie painefull for vs to doe for it was almost as hard as a Rocke the great Iland of Ice gaue a mightie cracke two or three times as though it had bin a thunder-clappe and presently the Iland began to ouerthrow which was like to haue sunke both our Boates if wee had not made good haste from it But thankes be to God we escaped this danger very happily and came aboord with both our Boates the one halfe laden with Ice There was great store of Sea Foule vpon this Iland of Ice The fiue and twentieth and six and twentieth the winde being at East did blow a hard gale and our course was West and by South with fogge This day in the afternoone I did reckon my selfe to be in the entering of an Inlet which standeth in the latitude of 61. degrees and 40. minutes The seuen and twentieth the winde was at South South-east and blew very hard our course was West The eight and twentieth and nine and twentieth our course was West and by South the winde blowing very hard at East South-east with fogge and raine The thirtieth the winde came vp in a showre by the West North-west blowing so hard that wee were forced to put a fore the Sea Now because the time of the yeare was farre spent and many of our men in both Shippes sicke wee thought it good to returne with great hope of this Inlet to bee a passage of more possibilitie then through the Straight of Dauis because I found it not much pestered with Ice and to be a straight of fortie leagues broad Also I sayled an hundred leagues West and by South within this Inlet and there I found the variation to be 35. degrees to the Westward and the needle to decline or rather incline 83. degrees and an halfe The fifth of August the winde all that while Westerly wee were cleare of this Inlet againe The sixth the winde was at East South-east with fogge The seauenth eight and ninth we passed by many great Ilands of Ice The ninth day at night we descried the land of America in the latitude of 55. degrees and 30. minutes This Land was an Iland being but low land and very smooth then the night approaching and the weather being something foggie and darke we were forced to stand to the Northward againe This night we passed by some great Ilands of Ice and some bigge peeces which did breake from the great Ilands and we were like to strike some of them two or three times which if we had done it might haue endangered our Shippes and liues Our consort the Godspeede strooke a little piece of Ice which they thought had foundred their Shippe but thankes be to God they receiued no great hurt for our Shippes were very strong The tenth day the winde was at North-east and by North with fogge and raine and our course was to the South-eastward for we could by no meanes put with the shoare by reason of the thicknesse of the fogge and that the winde blew right vpon the shoare so that we were forced to beare saile to keepe our selues from the land vntill it pleased God to send vs a cleare which God knoweth we long wanted At sixe of the clocke in the afternoone it was calme and then I iudged my selfe by mine account to be neere the Land so I founded and had ground in 160. fathomes and fine grey Osie Sand and there was a great Iland of Ice a ground within a league of vs where we sounded and within one houre it pleased God to send vs a cleere Then we saw the land some foure leagues South-west and by South from vs. This land lyeth East and by South and West and by North being good high land but all Ilands as farre as wee could discerne This calme continued vntill foure of the clocke in the afternoone of the eleuenth day the weather being very cleere we could not discerne any Current to goe at all by this Land This day the Sea did set vs in about a league
did very much villanie to them in the ship so that the Captaine tooke three of them other of them also he slew but the three which he tooke he vsed with all kindnesse giuing them Mandillions and Breeches of very good cloth also Hose Shoes and Shirts off his own backe This afternoone I with my Boy came againe aboord the ship taking in this Euening all our prouision of water The eleuenth day the wind being at North North-east we set saile forth of the Sound which we named Frost Sound but before our comming forth of the same our Captaine commanded a young man whose name was Simon by the expresse commandement of the State-holder of Denmarke to bee set aland wee also in the Pinnasse set another aland they both being Malefactors the which was done before our comming away we giuing to them things necessarie as victuall and other things also Thus hauing committed both the one and the other to God wee set saile homewards we standing forth to Sea South-west and South-west and by West till noone when making obseruation Queene Annes Cape bearing South and by East halfe Easterly some ten leagues I found my selfe in the latitude of 66. degrees 10. minutes when I directed my course South South-west till sixe a clocke when wee were amongst much Drift Ice being to lee-ward two points vpon our lee-bow so that I was forst to lie off West North-west till we were cleere of the same at which time I directed my course South-west and by South wee sayling so all the night following The twelfth day the wind at North North-east wee went away South-west and by South till ten a clocke when we were amongst more Drift Ice wee being againe to lie West North-west to get cleere of the same which we did about noone we hauing this day and the Euening before a mightie hollow Sea which I thought to be a current the which setteth thorow Fretum Dauis to the Southwards as by experience I proued for making obseruation this day at noone we found our selues in the latitude of 62. degrees 40. minutes whereas the day before we were but in the latitude of 66. degrees 10. minutes hauing made by account a South and by West way about ten leagues This afternoone I directed my course South South-west The thirteenth day the wind as before we steered still South and by West being at noone in the latitude of 60. degrees 17. minutes going at the same time away South and by East This foresaid current I did find to set alongst the Coast of Gronland South and by East The fourteenth day close weather being an easie gale we steering South-east and by East The fifteenth day stil close weather til noone we steering as before being in the latitude of 59. degrees This day at noone I went away East South-east this afternoone it was hasie and still weather when we had sight of some Drift Ice The 16. day close weather with the wind at North-west and by West our course East South-east til about ten a clock when we met with a mightie bank of Ice to wind-ward of vs being by supposition seuen or eight leagues long wee steering South South-east to get cleere of the same We met all alongst this Ice a mightie scull of Whales Moreouer wee light with a great current which as nigh as we could suppose set West North-west ouer for America This day at noone the weather being very thicke I could haue no obseruation this Euening by reason of the Ice wee were forced to lye South and by West and South South-west to get cleere of the same amongst which we came by diuers huge Ilands of Ice The seuenteenth day being cleere of the Ice about foure in the morning I directed my course South-east by South till noone at which time I went away East and by South the weather being very haysie and thicke about midnight it fell calme the wind comming vp Easterly The eighteenth day the wind still Easterly we lying East South-east away vnder a couple of courses larboord tackt This day in the forenoone we saw certayne Ilands of Ice The nineteenth day the wind still Easterly with the weather very hasie The first day of August also it was very thicke weather with a faire gale at South-west and by West This forenoone wee met with a scull of Herrings so that I knew wee were not farre from the Iles of Orkney so hauing a shrinke at noone I found vs in the latitude of 58. degrees 40. minutes at which time I founded with the deepest Lead finding 42. fathomes redde sandie ground with some blacke dents This Euening betweene fiue and sixe a clocke wee founded againe when we had no more but twentie fathomes dent ground whereby I knew that we were faire by the shoare when some of our men looking forth presently espied one of the Ilands of Orkeney it being very thicke wee cast about and stood with a small sayle to Seaboord againe we lying West North-west off all this night The tenth day about fiue in the morning we came thwart of the Castle of Elsonuere where we discharged certaine of our Ordnance and comming to an Anchor in the Road the Captaine with my selfe went ashoare and hearing of his Majesties being at Copeman-Hauen wee presently went aboord againe and set sayle comming thither about two a clocke The Pinnasse also which he had lost at Sea in which my Countreyman Iohn Knight was Commander came also the same night about foure a clocke both they and we being all in good health praised bee Almightie God Amen CHAP. XV. The second Voyage of Master IAMES HALL forth of Denmarke into Groenland in the yeere 1606. contracted WE departed from Copeman-Hauen the seuen and twentieth of May in the yeere of our Redemption 1606. with foure ships and a Pinnasse The Frost beeing Admirall wherein went for principall Captaine of the Fleet Captaine Godske Lindeno a Danish Gentleman with my selfe being vnder God Pilot Maior of the Fleet. In the Lyon which was Vice-Admirall went for Captaine and Commanmander Captaine Iohn Cunningham a Scottish Gentleman who was with me the yeere before In the Yewren went Hans Browne a Gentleman of Norway In the smal ship called The Gilleflowre went one Castine Rickerson a Dane In the Pinnasse called the Cat went one shipper Andres Noll of Bergen in Norway So by the prouidence of God wee weighed and set saile about sixe a clocke in the Euening with a faire gale at South South-west comming to an Anchor in Elsonoure Road to take in our water The nine and twentieth in the morning we shot off a Peece of Ordnance for all the Captaines and Commanders to come aboord of vs who being come our Captaine commanded the Kings Orders to bee read which done they returned aboord at which time wee weighed with a faire gale at East North-east standing away North and by West till I had brought the Cole North-east and by East off when I
as we could and some went to building our shallop Also I caused our Boate to be lanched ouer the Iland and sent my Mate Edward Gorrell with three others to seeke for a better place where to bring our ship on ground if it were possible to mend her againe But they returned without any certaintie by reason of the abundance of Ice which choked euery place They found wood growing on the shoare Thursday being faire weather Here Master Iohn Knight ended writing in this Iournall On this Thursday the sixe and twentieth of Iune in the morning our Master caused some of our men to goe aboord our ship to saue what things they could And hee and Edward Gorrell his Mate and his brother and three more of our Company tooke the Boate carrying with them foure Pistols three Muskets fiue Swords and two halfe Pikes for to goe ouer to a great Iland which was not aboue a mile from our ship to looke if they could find any Harbour or any Coue to get our ship into for to mend her Also he carried an Equinoctiall Diall with him and paper to make a Draught of the Land When they were passed ouer to the other side our Master his Mate and his brother and one more went on shoare leauing two of vs in the Boate with one Musket one Sword and an halfe Pike to keepe it which two stayed in the Boate from ten of the clocke in the morning vntill eleuen of the clocke at night but could heare no newes of them after their departure vp into the top of the Hill Then did the Trumpettor sound two or three times and the other did discharge his Musket two or three times and so they came away to the other side to the West of the Company where the ship was where they were watching for our comming who seeing vs two comming and no more they maruelled where the rest of the company were When wee came on shoare they enquired for our Master and the rest of our company But we could tell them no newes of them after their departure out of the Boat but that we did see them goe vp to the top of the Iland Which report did strike all our men into a great feare to thinke in what extremitie we were because we did want our Master and three of our best men and our Ship lay sunke and we had nothing to trust to but our Shallop which was not at that time halfe finished This night lying on shoare in our Tent which was betweene two Rocks we kept very good watch for feare of any peoples sudden assaulting of vs or if our Master and his company had trauailed so farre that they could not come againe that night and would shoote a Musket that wee might heare them But they came not at all The next day being Friday and the seuen and twentieth of Iune wee consulted to goe ouer seuen of vs with our Boate to try if we could see or learne any news of our Master or any of our men for we were afraid that they were either surprised by the Sauages of the Countrie or else deuoured by the wilde Beasts So we tooke with vs seuen Muskets and Swords and Targets and such prouision as we had in the Ship and went downe to the Sea-side but wee could not get ouer for Ice At length we returned with much adoe to get on shoare land went to our Ship to saue what things we could all that day On Saturday the eight and twentieth we did likewise saue what things we could and gat all our things out of our Ship and made her cleane in hold hauing faire weather hoping in God to saue her and to mend all things as well as we could for she lay vpon hard rocks wherefore we kept her as light as we could for beating and bruising of her hull That night about nine of the clocke it began to raine very sore and so continued all night and about one of the clocke at night our Boate-Swaine and our Steward being at watch and their watch almost out the Steward went aboord the Ship to pumpe leauing the Boate-Swaine at watch some Musket shot length from our Tent while he was in pumping there came ouer the rocks a great sort of the Countrey people toward the place where the Boate-Swaine was who when they saw him they shot their arrowes at him running toward him as fast as they could Whereupon hee discharged his Musket at them and fled to our Tent as fast as hee could thinking they had beset vs they were so many of them in sight The Steward hearing his Musket goe off came out of the Ship and as he was comming saw the Sauages running to our Shallop and cryed out to vs that were asleepe in our Tent to come to rescue the Boate-Swaine and the Shallop We made what haste we could when we came towards them and saw so many of them in our Shallop we were afraid we were betraid At this time it rained very sore yet calling our wits together we sent two of our men backe vnto our Tent the rest of vs made toward them and shot at them some three or foure Muskets who when they saw vs shoote they stood in our Shallop and held vp their hands vnto vs calling one to another Then thought we with our selues that we were better to dye in our defence in pursuing of them then they vs being but eight Men and a great Dogge When they saw vs marching toward them so fiercely our Dogge being formost they ranne away but we durst not pursue them any further for it was in the night and they were in sight aboue fiftie men Thus we recouered our Shallop Then we sent some more of our men to our Tent to keepe it and the rest followed toward the place whither they fled But before we could ouertake them they were gotten into their Boates and were rowing away through the Ice which was so thicke that they could not passe away but stucke fast for their Boates were very great wee seeing them sticke fast in the Ice some setting with Oares and some rowing came so neere them as we could and shot at them some dozen shot before they could get cleere which shot caused them to cry out very sore one to another for their Boates were full of men As farre as we could iudge they be very little people tawnie coloured thin or no beards and flat nosed and Man-eaters On Sunday the nine and twentieth all day long we gat such things as we could aboord our Shippe for feare they should come ouer with more men and beset vs our Ship lying betweene two great Rocks and all without so full of Ice that we could not passe any way to Sea no not with a Boate. That day two of our men kept watch vpon the Rocks to giue vs warning if they did come ouer with Boats Then did our Carpenter make what shift hee
and rowing about the harbour where we lay to finde some neerer way out to the Sea we found among the Ilands where many of their winter houses had bin and some of their Tents were but lately carried away In which place wee also found one of their long Boates made of wood and bound together for the most part with shiuers of Whales fins and couered with Seales skinnes being some two and thirtie foote in length and some fiue foote broad hauing tenne thoughts or seates in it That day about twelue of the clocke we weighed anchor and departed out of Ramels Ford which lieth in the latitude of 67. degrees and the variation of the compasse is 24. degrees 16. minutes being a very faire Riuer and one of the most principall which wee saw in that Countrey stretching in East and East and by South This night about one of the clocke we came to the Patience lying in the Kings Ford. Sunday the sixe and twentieth Master Andrew Barker and our Merchant Master Wilkinson with other of the Company were in conference about returning home because that since our Master was slaine none of the Sauages would trade with vs as they were wont Wednesday the nine and twentieth we were likewise occupied about taking in of ballast for our Shippe was very light and that euening it was agreed that Andrew Barker Master of the Harts-ease should goe Master of the Patience which was sore against the minde of William Gourdâ—n and William Huntrice was appointed Master of the Harts-ease and Iohn Garteâ—â—y one of the quarter Masters of the Patience was Masters mate of the Harts-ease Tuesday the fourth of August in the morning the winde being Northerly a very small gale we got to Sea where the winde came to the Southward and we tacked sometime on the one boord and sometime on the other making small way on our course Munday the tenth was raine and foule weather as it had continued euery day since wee came from harbour sauing the seuenth day which was somewhat faire For commonly while the winde is South it is very thick and foule weather We tacked sometimes on one boord and sometimes on the other making a South by West way at noone sixe leagues Wednesday the twelfth it waxed calme we being somewhat Southward of a Cape called Burnils Cape and about three or foure of the clocke in the afternoone the winde came to the North and by West an easie gale with faire weather The eighteenth at noone we were in 58. deg 50. min. The seuenteenth day I tooke the variation of the compasse finding it to be 13. degrees 22. minutes contrary to the obseruations of others in this place And if any doe doubt of the truth thereof they may with a little paines proue it The eighteenth of August the declination of the Sunne was 9. degrees 58. minutes for the Meridian of London But we being almost foure houres of time to the Westward thereof there are three minutes to be abated from the rest and so the declination was 9. degrees 55. minutes and his height aboue the horizon was 24. degrees 40. minutes in the latitude of 59. degrees 0. min. and his distance from the South to the Westward by the compasse was 81. degrees And for truth of the first obseruation I tooke another shortly after finding them not to differ aboue 4. minutes Wednesday the nineteenth the winde still continued with thicke and hasie weather we being at noone in the latitude of 58. degrees 30. minutes or thereabout making a South South-east way about ten leagues Thursday the twentieth was faire weather the winde at East North-east wee steered away South-east and South-east and by East making at noone a South-east and by South way about thirtie leagues being at noone in the latitude of 57. degrees 20. minutes This day in the afternoone I tooke the variation of the compasse and found it about 11. degrees 10. minutes Friday the one and twentieth faire weather with the winde at North and North by East and we made an East South-east way halfe Southerly twentie foure leagues being at noone by obseruation in the latitude of 56. degrees 50. minutes Saturday the two and twentieth faire weather the wind at North and Nrth by East wee made an East way halfe Southerly some twentie two leagues being at noone in the latitude of 56. degrees 47. minutes Sunday the three and twentieth faire weather the wind at West North-west we making an East and East by North way about twentie foure leagues This day I tooke the variation of the Compasse and found it to be 7. degrees 23. minutes being at noone in the latitude of 57. degrees 26. minutes Munday the foure and twentieth being S. Bartholomewes day faire weather with an North North-west wee making an East North-east way halfe Northerly about twentie seuen leagues and were at noone by obseruation in the latitude of 58. degrees 4. minutes This day I obserued and found the Compasse to be varied 7. degrees 20. minutes Tuesday the fiue and twentieth faire weather and calme the winde at North wee made a North-east and by East way seuenteene leagues being at noone in the latitude of 58. degrees 30. minutes This day I found the common Compasse to be varied one point and the true variation to bee 6. degrees 4. minutes Wednesday the sixe and twentieth faire weather also with the wind North North-west we made a North-east and by East way halfe about twentie two leagues being in the height of 59. degrees 10. minutes Thursday the seuen and twentieth indifferent faire weather with a stiffe gale of wind at the North North-west we making a North-east way about thirtie one leagues being at noone in the latitude of 60. degrees 10. minutes Friday the eight and twentieth the wind at South-east with a stiffe gale wee made good about noone a North-east and by East way about twentie nine leagues This day in the afternoone it blew so great a storme that wee were in great distresse the winde at East South-east But about eleuen of the clocke it came to the North-west and North-west by North. And we ranne some twentie leagues Saturday the nine and twentieth it blew so stiffe that wee could beare none but our fore-saile making an Easâ— and by South way halfe Southerly about thirtie leagues Sunday the thirtieth all the forenoone it blew a very stiffe gale and about noone the winde came Southerly and it blew a very great storme which continued all that day and that night in such sort that we could not saile at all but all that night lay at hull Munday the one and thirtieth in the morning about foure of the clocke the winde came to the South-west a very stiffe gale At which time we set our fore-saile The wind continued all this day and night we steered away East and by South making at noone an East North-east way about thirtie foure leagues Tuesday the first of
I leaue to bee scanned by Falconers themselues Great expense of Wooll Chap. 8. Of the fashion which the Tartars vse in cutting their haire and of the attire of their women Chap. 9. Of the duties inioyned vnto the Tartarian Women and of their labors and also of their marriages Chap. 10. Of their execution of Iustice and Iudgment and of their deaths and burials Sepulchres Chap. 11. Of our first entrance among the Tartars and of their ingratitude Duke Sartach Chap. 12. Of the Court of Scacatai how the Christians drinke no Cosmos A caue at right worthy the noting Superstition the Kingdom â— of God is not meate and drinke Chap. 13. How the Alanians came vnto vs on Pentecost or Whitson Eâ—â—e * Or Akas Cloth is the chiefe Merchandise in Tartarie Chap. 14. Of a Saracen which said that he would be baptized and of certaine men which seemed to bee Lâ—pers Salt-pits Ten dayes Iourney Valani The length of Comania Russia Chap. 15. Of our afflictions which wee sustained and of the Comanians manner of buriall Prussia Extreame heate in Summer Tanaiâ— The breadth of Tanais He is much deceiued About the beginning of August the Tartars returne Southward Chap. 16. Of the Dominion of Sartach and of his Subiects The people of Moxel are Pagans The people called Merdui being Saracens The circuit of the Caspian Sea Kergis or Aas The Saracens called Lesgi He returneth by Derbent Chap. 17. Of the Court of Sartach and of the magnificence thereof Coiat the Nestorian No good consequence Chap. 18. How they were giuen in charge to goe vnto Baatu the Father of Sartach They are come as farre as Volga The Tartars will be called Moal Chap. 19. How Sartach and Mangu-Can and Ken-Can doe reuerence vnto Christians This Historie of Presbyter Iohn in the North-east is alleaged at large by Gerardus Mercator in his generall Mâ—p From whence the Turkes first sprang An Ocean Sea Nayman Presbyter Iohn The place of Ken Kan his aboad Vut Can or Vuc Can. The Village of Cara Carum Crit Merkit Moal in old time a beggerly people The place of the Tartars Cyngis Mangu-Can Mancherule Chap. 20. Of the Russians Hungarians and Alanianâ—â— and of the Caspian Sea Oâ— Berâ—a Changlâ— Frier Andrew Chap. 21. Of the Court of Baatu and how we were entertayned by him The North Ocean He descendeth downe the Riuer Volga in a Barke Aâ—â—racan The description of Baatu his Court. Horda signifieth the midst Iohn de Plano Carpini The Letters of the French King Chap. 22. Of our iourney towards the Court of Mangu-Can They trauell fiue weekes by the banke of Etilia Hungarians A Comonian A iourney of foure moneths from Volga The sixteenth of September Forty six daies Or Kangittae Chap. 23. Of the Riuer of Iagac Or Iaic and of diuers Regions or Nations Iaic twelue daies iourney from Volga Pascatir The Hungarians descended from the Bascirdes Valachians Deut. 32. v. 21. Rom. 10. v. 19. Cangle an huge plaine Countrey Chap. 24. Of the hunger and thirst and other miseries which we sustained in our iourned Certaine Riuers Eight daies iourny South-ward Asses swift of foot High Mountaines Manured grounds Kenchat a Village of the Saracens The seuenth day of Nouember A great Riuer Many Lakes Vines Chap. 25. How Ban was put to death and concerning the habitation of the Dutch men A Cottage The Mountaynes of Caucasus are extended vnto the Easterne Sea The Citie of Talas or Chincitalas Frier Andrew The Village of Bolac He entreth into the Territories of Mangu-Can Certaine Alpes wherein the Cara Catayans inhabited A mightie Riuer Ground tilled Equius A Lake of fifteene daies iourney in compasse Coilaâ— a great Citie and full of Merchants Contomanni Chap. 26. How the Nestorians Sâ—racens and Idolaters are ioyned together The people called Iugureâ— Idolaters Frier William was at Caracarum Chap. 27. Of their Temples and Idols and how they behaue themselues in worshipping their false gods Bookes Paper So doe the people of China vse to write drawing their lines perpendicularly downeward and not as we doe from the right hand to the left Chap. 28. Of diuers and sundry Nations and of certaine people which were wont to eate their owne parents The Countrey of Presbyter Iohn Tangut Strange Oxen. The people of Tebet Abundance of gold The sâ—ature of the people of Tangut and of the Iugures Langa and Solanga The people of Solanga resemble Spaniards A table of Elephants tooth The people called Muc. Great Cataya * From hence is supplyed by Master Hacluits industrie as he told me out of a Manuscript in Bennet Colledge in Cambridge the other part hee had out of an imperfect Copie of my Lord Lumlies The Chapters disagree as being I thinke rather some Transcribers diuision then the Authors Yet haue I followed the numbers I found euen where they are obscurest The Friers Latin for some barbarous words and phrases hath beene troublesome to 〈◊〉 The worke I hold a Iewell of Antiquitie now first entirely publike Idolatry Nestorians Segni a Citie of Cathay They are so at this day The euill qualities of the Nestorians Hence by corruption of manners and ignorance of faith seemeth the Apostacy of the greatest part of Asia to haue happened furthered by Tartarian inuasions and Saracenicall All Priests * Consider our Author a Frier whose trauels we rather embrace then in such passages his diuinitie They were later Fathers which made such Decrees contrary to the Father of truth which ordained marriage in Leuies Priest-hood and chose married men to the Apostleship and forewarned of another Father who with Doctrines of Deuils should prohibite meate and marriage vnder colour of Priests chastitie making the Temple stewes to carnall and spirituall whoredome Chap. 26. Of such things as befell them departing from Cailac to the Country of the Naymannes Nouemb. 30. Decemb. 6. Extreme cold Decemb. 7. A dangerous passage Chap. 27. Of the Country of the Naymans and what befell the stock of Ken-Chan his sonne wiues Bâ—atu Stichin and Ken kill one another Chap. 28. Of their comming to the Court of Mangu Chan. Onam Kerule the proper Country of the Tartars Chap. 15. Tartars pride Decemb. 28. Chap. 29. Of a Christian chappell and of the conference with Sergius the counterfeit Armenian Monke and of the sharpnes and continuance of the Winter An Armenian Monke Their conference with the Armenian Monke Monkish Re ue lation Toes frozen S. Francis Order not Catholike Vniuersally fitting all places and seasons Frost vntill the moneth of May. Easter in the end of the end of Aprill And great Snow in the end of Aprill Shauing Respect of Priests Chap. 30. Of the Admitting of the Friars to Mangu Chan and his description and their conference with him The description of Mangu Chan. Drinke of Rice is cleere and sauoury and like to white Wine The Indians call it Racke The Oration of Frier William to Mangu Chan. The like Letters you haue of King Edw. 2. before l. 8. c. 7.
His purpose altered Stronâ—â—â—ream Herd of white Deere The Riuer searched Noua Zembla pleasant to the eye Cause of much Ice in those Seas which make no nauigable passage Willoughbies Land a conceit of Card-makers it seeming to be no other then Newland or Greenland as is before obserued cap. 2. as Costing Sarch of Brunell is to others Noua Zembla Note Greene Sea Thunder No night in ten weekes See Hak. 10.3 May 5. stilo nouo Beala 〈◊〉 Wardhouse They doubled the North Cape Assumption Point Zenâ—â— Lofoote No variatioâ— A great current setting to the North-east Farre Iles set 14. leagues to farre West Stromo Iune m The Bittacle is a close place in which the Compasse standeth Busse Iland Their first sight of stars for further North they 〈◊〉 continuall Sun-light Change of water A strange current out of the South-west Note well Bonets are those which are laced and eeked to the sayles to enlarge them with reference whereto the mayne course missen course fore course is vnderstood of those sayles without their Bonets A current from the North. Variation one point East Latitude 48. degrees 6. minutes * To spend the Mast is vnderstood of breaking it by foule weather only * That is bare no more sayle but the mayne sayle c. Variation Iuly The Banke of New found Land Variation west 17. degrees French-men Fishing on the Banke Variation 15. degrees North-west Variation 13. degrees Foggie and thick weather Many great Cods taken Many great Scoales of Herrings To sound is to trie the depth by Line and Lead or Pole c. Variation 17. degrees Land being low white and sandie 43. degrees 25. minutes Sight of Land againe and of two Ships Fiue Ilands Sixe Saluages come aboord them A large Riuer 44. Degrees 10. minutes The trade of the French with the Saluages They spoyle Houses of the Saluages Variation 10. degrees toward the North-west Variation 6. degrees to the West Variation 5. a halfe degrees A great current and many ouer-fals A great Rut. A current to the South-west and South-west by West with ouer-fals August They goe on Land neere Cape Cod. Sauages This dangerous Riffe is in 41. degrees 10 minutes and lyeth off East from Cape Cod into the Sea The Flats A current setting to the North. Variation one point Variation 10. degrees 37. Degrees 25. minutes 37. Degrees 6. minutes A low Land with a white sandie shoare 37. degrees 26. minutes Barre of Virginia Kings Riuer Note 37. degrees 22. minutes Variation 4. degrees Westward The Banke of Virginia The Coast lyeth South South-west and North North-west Latitude 37. degrees 15. minutes This agreeth with Robert Tyndall The Point of the Land A great Bay and Riuers A small Shallop needfull The Norther Land is full of shoalds Many Ilands They strike Latitude 39. degrees 5. minutes Latitude 38. degrees 39. minutes Deceitfull streames September Latitude 39. degrees 3. minutes The Land like broken Ilands The course along the Land from the mouth of one Riuer to the mouth of the Norther Bay or Lake Variation 8. degrees neere the Hills 2. degrees variation off at Sea High and a bold shoare Three great Riuers The Northermost barred An excellent Riuer Latitude 40. degrees 30. minutes A very good Harbour The people of the Countrey come aboord they are very ciuill Yellow Copper Tall Oakes The great Bay in 40. degrees and 30. minutâ— Dryed Currants Mantles of Feathers Furs Hempe Red Copper Another Riuer foure leagues to the Northward A narrow Riuer to the Westward Colman slaine and two more hurt Colmans Point Treacherous Sauages Good Harbour 28. Canoes full of men Oysters and Beanes Copper Pipes Variation 13. degrees The Riuer a mile broad Very high and mountainous Land Very louing people Maiz Pompions and Tabacco Shoalds and small Ilands Grapes and Pompions Beauers and Otters skins Oration End of the Riuers Nâ—uigablenesse They returne downe the Riuer Store of Chest-nuts Okes Wal-nut trees Chest-nut trees Ewe trees Cedar trees c. Mountaines Small skins A pleasant place to build a Towne on Likelihood of Minerals October Treacherie of these Sauages A skirmish and slaughter of the Sauages A Myne of Copper or Siluer The Countrey of Manna-hata The great mouth of the great Riuer They leaue the Coast of Virginia Aprill 17. May. The Iles of Orkney Note Farre Ilands 62 degrees 24. minutes Westmony Iune Groneland Frobishers Streights Desolation A current West North-west East entrance into the Streights Iuly Desire prouoketh Iles of Gods Mercies Hold with Hope A mightie growne Sea Magna Britannia August Salisburies fore-land A great and whurling Sea A Streight which led vs into the deepe Bay of Gods great Mercies Cape Worsenholme Cape Digs Orkney Farre Iles. Island The South-east part of Island Westmonie Iland Mount Hecla casteth out fire A mayne of Ice * Or Diraford Lousie Bay An hot Bath The first of Iune Iland of Desolation Store of Whales Iland of Ice ouerturneth Danger by Ice Hudson entred 100. leagues further then any had been Discontents Desire prouokes Exercises of pleasure and profit on the Ice Difference of Tydes and Bayes Ice aboue 100. fathome A dangerous Rocke Iles of Gods Mercie Partridges Drift-wood Three Capes Prince Henries Cape King Iames his Cape Queene Annes Cape Note Mount Charles Cape Salsburie Deepes Cape Worsenhams Cape Deere Store of fowle and grasse Sorell and Scuruy grasse Fowles hanged Discord see Widhouse his Relations following Michaelmasse Day and Bay Anchor lost Sea of two colours Footing of a man Sticke on a Rocke Last of October Nouember the tenth frozen in Iohn Williams dyeth Henry Greenes bad conditions Greenes conspiracie Their hand wintring Store of Partridgâ—s Other Fowles succeeding in their seasons Miserable diet Medicinable budde A Sauage Turke Fishing Belly straits Wilson Green their wickednesse Robert Iuet 〈◊〉 Widhouses notes Oath abused The Carpenter spared They bind the Master The Carpenter let goe The names of the company exposed in the Shallop Lâ—st sight of the Shallop Foure Ilands The wicked flee where none pursueth Cockle grasse A Rocke Note Iuly 27. Sauages Sauages manner of fowling Greenes confidence Sauages dogges Sauages trecherie Trecherie iust to vniust Traytors Greene slaine Wicked and wretched end of wretched wicked men Miserie pursueth the rest Poore Diet. Robert Iuets death A sayle of Fowy Bere Hauen in Ireland They arriue at Plimouth Ilanders poore The cause of their stay as Island They are related by Master Hakluit in his 3. vol pag 121. Friesland Saint Thomas Monasterie in Greenland Hote Spring and the strange effects thereof Estotiland Drogio Abrah Ortel Chart. 6. Hak. vol. 3. Botero Maginus Hondius c. * There is also the relation hereof by Quirino himseife extant together with this in Râ—musio Tom. 2. Out of which I haue heere added diuers annotations * The Italians call the sayling into the Mediterranean the Leuant or East and thence intâ— the Spanish Ocean and these parts the Ponent or West * These are particularly related by Quirino the
of a Biscay ship The fourth and fifth Whales killed The sixt whale killed Three hundred Morses Biscainers enuie The seuenth Whale killed The eight Whale killed The ninth and tenth Whales killed The eleuenth twelfth and thirteenth Whales killed Ascension day Greenland attayned in eighteene dayes A ship of Saint Iohn de Luz Eight Spaniards on the coast The Generall was Captaine Beniamin Ioseph after slaine in fight with a Carrike Dutch ship No night the 23. of May. Diuers strangers Lat. 78. deg 24. minut Ship of Biscay Snowe Greene harbour Low sound His Maiesties Armes and a Crosse set vp at Low-nesse Snowe Thomas Bonner English man Master and Pilot. 76. deg 55. min. declination 67. deg 30. min. Variation 12. deg 14. min. Abundance of Ice An Iland in 72 degrees on the Coast of Groinland Three and twentie whales killed A man slaine Latitude 78. deg 7. min. Note A South South west Moone maketh a full Sea here A Biscayn ship of 700. tuns Many rockes full of Fowle Lisets Ilands Eighteene Whales killed Three Whales killed by the English Eight thirtie Whales killed August 1. Latitude 77. degrees 40. minutes Variation 13. degrees 11. minutes Latitude 79. degrees 14. minutes This was Maâ— Cudners ship of London Latitude 79. degrees 8. minutes Sunnes refraction Note M. Cudner of London William Gourdon Variation 1. degree 5. min. Rost Ilands or Rosten 68. dâ—g no min. Thâ— variâ—tion 4 degrees 8. minutes East Variation 5. dâ—g 3. minutes East The lying of the land about Scoutsnesse We went forth to Sea We met with Ice in 75. deg 10. minutes Eleuen Sayles fast in the Ice M. Th. Sherwin Iune We goe cleere off the Ice Wee met with the Mary An-Sarah We came to the Fore land We proceeded to the Northwards Maudlen Sound Hackluyts Head-land We anchoreâ— in Maudlen Sound I went forth in a shallop We set sayle out of Maudlen Sound and followed the Ice Prince Charles Iland in 78. degrees 40. minutes Wee stood againe for shoare Eleuen Holland ships We anchored in Sir T. Smiths Bay We went forth of Sir T. Smiths Bay We were driuen backe againe into Crosse-road We set sayle out of Crosse-road One shallop to the Northward The other into Maudlen Sound The Kings Armes set vp in Trinitie Harbour Trinitie Harbor is vnder the parallel of 79. degrees 34. minutes We came to an anchor in Faire Hauen No Whales were yet come in The shallop returned from the Northwards Cape Barrèn Saddle Iland A Storme Iulie The Whales began now to come in Two Whales escaped We came forth of Faire hauen We met with Ice and stood to the Northwards Our Shallop came to vs. We returned towards Faire hauen We intended to discouer in Shallops I went forth in the one Shallop Master Baffin came to me in the other Shallop Red-beach Wee hailed our Shallop vpon the Ice We returned to our Shallop We were vnder saile and came to an anchor againe We killed a Whale August We went to the Northwards with our Shallops We got to the shoare of Red Beach with out Shallops We walked ouer Red-beach The Kings armes are set vp at Wiches Sound We passed ouer Wiches Sound We found Beach Finâ— We met with the Hartsease Shallop Note The end of Sir Thomas Smiths Inlet discouered We returned towards our Ship A storme began when we were amongst Ice We get forth of the Ice We came aboord our ship The Holland Discouerers go homewards Our Ship went forth to Sea We met with Ice eight leagues from the Shore We plyed off and on the Ice two dayes Wee anchored againe in the North Harbor I went to the Eastwards in a shallop Ice was newly frozen in Red-cliffe Sound I intended to go once to Point Desire A great snow began I could not passe for Ice The originall cause of Ice at Sea I went backe againe to Red-beach I returned towards our ship Point Welcome The Kings Armes are set vp againe at Point Welcome I went into Red cliffe Sound Point Deceit I came aboord our ship A Whale lay sunken fourteene dayes The Hartseasâ— anchored by vs. Warme weather in the end of August We set sayle to the Eastward The Thomasinâ— returnes for England We stood to the westwards Wee met with Ice We left the Ice and came for England A storme beganne A Corpo Santo It is often seen at the end of stormes Hackluyts Headland Perill and escape Note Errour of Grouland Fogges High Hill Drift wood Note Sir T. Smiths Iland Mount Hackluyt Hudsons Hold-with-hope questioned as before also Ships of the King of Denmarke Terrible Disaster Flemmings Peter Goodford drowned Cold and heate strangely variable Tobacco lighted by the Sun at midnight Gods mercy to England whiles warres haue infested thâ— rest of the World A. Thuan-bister l. 135. Iam. 3. Exod. 1. Al. Gwagninâ— descript Mosc George brother to the Emperor done to death Hee addes principal Nobles here omitted * 700. women at one time 378. prisoners at another 500. Matrons and Virgins of noble bloud exposed to be rauished by the Tartars in his sight at another time c. * A Secretarie cutting off his priuities he died presently which the Emperour construing to be done purposely caused him there instantly to eate whâ—t he had cut off * Or Theodor Sir Ierom Horsey The death of Iuan Vasiliwich 1584. April 18. Lord Boris adopted as the Emperors third sonne The day of Pheodor his coronation Iohn de Wale Chare Sibersky Prince of Siberia taken prisoner brought to Mosco Sophet Keri Alli King of the Crims arriuall at Mosco The new Emperor Pheodore Iuanowich his Lâ—tters and Requests to the Queene Master Horseys voyage from Mosco to England ouer land 1586. Thuan. hist. lib. 120. Diuorce vrged D. Fl. S.I.H. Boris his plot Thuan. hist. lib. 135. sec. Demetrius slain some tell that one pretended his colâ—er stood awry in mending it cut his throate * It was in the Northern parts at Duglets * Some write that he caused diuers places in Mosco to be fiâ—red and then afterwards out of his owne cost repaired them D. Flet. Death of Theodore The Empresse succeedeth Russians vse of fortie dayes mourning for an Emperours death The Queene turneth Nun. Boris his willing vnwillingnesse Boris his speech Boris Emperor His Wife Son Daughter Tartars Russian New yeere Boris crowned His policies P. Basman * Where the censorious bitternesse also seemeth too much to insult on Bâ—ris his dâ—sasters Tedious Title Strange request His audience P. Basman Emperours glorie Princes splendour Pollaxes Counsell and Nobilitie Plate Dining roomâ— Change of Rayment Two hundred Nobles guests Three hundred noble Seruitors Garlike and Onions Drinkes Meads Memory of Q. Elizabeth Gifts Newes of Demetrius Princes pomp Peter Basman Oucsinia the Princesse Second audience Citizens Souldiers Golden Seale Great dinner Ambassadors departure Sled-passage Emperor Boriâ— his death New christened Emperors person His respect to his sonne * Because he had done more for him then might lawfully be commanded