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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12458	Advertisements for the unexperienced planters of New-England, or any where. Or, The path-way to experience to erect a plantation With the yearely proceedings of this country in fishing and planting, since the yeare 1614. to the yeare 1630. and their present estate. Also how to prevent the greatest inconveniences, by their proceedings in Virginia, and other plantations, by approved examples. With the countries armes, a description of the coast, harbours, habitations, land-markes, latitude and longitude: with the map, allowed by our royall King Charles. By Captaine Iohn Smith, sometimes governour of Virginia, and admirall of Nevv-England.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1631 (1631)	STC 22787; ESTC S121885	31,468	55

value of fifteene hundred pound and arrived in England with all my men in health in six or seven moneths But Northward the French returned this yeare to France five and twenty thousand bevers and good furres whilest we were contending about Patents and Commissions with such fearefull incredulity that more dazeled our eyes than opened them In this voyage I tooke the description of the coast as well by map as writing and called it New-England but malicious mindes amongst Sailers and others drowned that name with the eccho of Nusconcus Canaday and Penaquid till at my humble sute our most gracious King Charles then Prince of Wales was pleased to confirme it by that title and did change the barbarous names of their principall Harbours and habitations for such English that posterity may say King Charles was their Godfather and in my opinion it should seeme an unmannerly presumption in any that doth alter them without his leave My second voyage was to beginne a Plantation and to doe what else I could but by extreme tempests that bore neare all my Masts by the boord being more than two hundred leagues at Sea was forced to returne to Plimoth with a Jury-Mast The third was intercepted by English and French Pyrats by my trecherous company that betrayed me to them who ran away with my Ship and all that I had such enemies the Sailers were to a Plantation and the greatest losse being mine did easily excuse themselves to the Merchants in England that still provided to follow the fishing much difference there was betwixt the Londoners and the Westerlings to ingrosse it who now would adventure thousands that when I went first would not adventure a groat yet there went foure or five good Ships but what by their dissention and the Turkes men of warre that tooke the best of them in the Straits they scarce saved themselves this yeare At my returne from France I did my best to have united them but that had beene more than a worke for Hercules so violent is the folly of greedy covetousnesse CHAP. 6. A description of the Coast Harbours Habitations Land-marks Latitude Longitude with the map THis Country wee now speake of lyeth betwixt 41. and 44½ the very meane for heat and cold betwixt the Equinoctiall and 〈◊〉 North Pole in which I have founded about five and twenty very good Harbors in many whereof is Ancorage for five hundred good ships of any burthen in some of them for a thousand and more than three hundred Iles overgrowne with good timber or divers sorts of other woods in most of them in their seasons plenty of wilde fruits Fish and Fowle and pure springs of most excellent water pleasantly distilling from their rockie foundations The principall habitations I was at North-ward was Pennobscot who are in warres with the Terentines their next Northerly neighbours Southerly up the Rivers and along the Coast wee found Mecadacut Segocket Pemmaquid Nusconcus Sagadahock Satquin Aumughcawgen and Kenabeca to those belong the Countries and people of Segot igo Pauhuntanuck Pocopassum Taughtanakagnet Wabigganus Nassaque Masherosqueck Wawrtgwick Moshoquen Waccogo Pasharanack c. To those are alied in confederacy the Countries of Aucocisco Accominticus Passataquak Augawoam and Naemkeck all these for any thing I could perceive differ little in language or any thing though most of them be Sagamos and Lords of themselves yet they hold the Bashabes of Pennobscot the chiefe and greatest amongst them The next is Mattahunt Totant Massachuset Paconekick then Cape Cod by which is Pawmet the Iles Nawset and Capawuck neere which are the shoules of Rocks and sands that stretch themselves into the maine Sea twenty leagues and very dangerous betwixt the degrees of 40. and 41. Now beyond Cape Cod the land extendeth it selfe Southward to Virginia Florida the West-Indies the Amazons and Brasele to the straits of Magelanus two and fifty degrees Southward beyond the Line all those great Countries differing as they are in distance North or South from the Equinoctiall in temper heat cold Woods Fruits Fishes Beasts Birds the increase and decrease of the night and day to six moneths day and six moneths night Some say many of those Nations are so brute they have no Religion wherein surely they may be deceived for myself I never saw nor heard of any Nation in the world which had not Religion Deare Bowes and Arrowes Those in New-England I take it beleeve much alike as those in Virginia of many divine Powers yet of one above all the rest as the Southerly Virginians call their chiefe God Kewassa and that we now inhabit Okae but all their Kings Werowances The M●ssichusots call their great God Kichtan and their Kings Sachemes and that we suppose their Devill they call Habamouk The Pennobscots their God Tantum their Kings Sagamos About those Countries are abundance of severall Nations and languages but much alike in their simple curiosities living and workemanship except the wilde estate of their chiefe Kings c. Of whose particular miserable magnificence yet most happy in this that they never trouble themselves with such variety of Apparell Drinkes Viands Sawses Perfumes Preservatives and nicities as we yet live as long and much more healthfull and hardy also the deities of their chiefest Gods Priests Conjurers Religion Temples Triumphs Physicke and Chirurgeric their births educations duty of their women exercise for their men how they make all their Instruments and Engines to cut downe Trees make their Cloaths Boats Lines Nets Fish-hooks Weres and Traps Mats Houses Pots Platters Morters Bowes Arrowes Targets Swords Clubs Jewels and Hatchets Their severall sorts of Woods Serpents Beasts Fish Fowle Roots Berries Fruits Stones and Clay Their best trade what is most fit to trade with them With the particulars of the charge of a fishing voyage and all the necessaries belonging to it their best countries to vent it for their best returnes also the particulars for every private man or family that goeth to plant and the best seasons to goe or returne thence with the particular description of the Salvages Habitations Harbours and Land markes their Latitude Longitude or severall distance with their old names and the new by the Map augmented Lastly the power of their Kings obedience of their subjects Lawes executions planting their Fields Huntings Fishings the manner of their warres and treacheries yet knowne and in generall their lives and conversation and how to bridle their brute barbarous and salvage dispositions of all these particulars you may reade at large in the generall History of Virginia New-England and the Summer Iles with many more such strange actions and accidents that to an ordinary capacity might rather seeme miracles than wonders possibly to bee effected which though they are but wound up as bottoms of fine silke which with a good needle might be flourished into a far larger worke yet the Images of great things are best discerned contracted into smaller glasses CHAP. 7. New Englands yearely trials the