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A04691	A plaine description of the Barmudas, now called Sommer Ilands VVith the manner of their discouerie anno 1609. by the shipwrack and admirable deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates, and Sir George Sommers, wherein are truly set forth the commodities and profits of that rich, pleasant, and healthfull countrie. With an addition, or more ample relation of diuers other remarkeable matters concerning those ilands since then experienced, lately sent from thence by one of the colonie now there resident.; Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Ile of Divels	Jourdain, Silvester, d. 1650.	1613 (1613)	STC 14817; ESTC S109247	18,076	52

the turne to pay the seames of the pinnace Sir George Sommers built for which hee had neither pitch nor tarre so that God in the supplying of all our wants beyond all measure shewed himselfe still mercifull vnto vs that me might accomplish our intended voy age to Virginia for which I confidently hope hee doth yet reserue a blessing in store and to the which I presume euery honest and religious hart will readily giue their Amen when all thinges were made ready and commodiously fitted the winde comming faire wee set saile and put off from the Barmudas the tenth day of May in the yeare 1610. and arriued at Iames towne in Virginia the foure and twentieth day of the same Moneth where me found some threescore persons liuing And being then some three weeks or there abouts passed and not hearing of any supply it was thought fitting by a generall cōsent to vse the best means for the preseruation of all those people that were liuing being al in number two hundred persons And so vpon the eight of Iune one thousand six hundred and ten wee imbarked at Iames Towne not hauing aboue fourteene dayes virtuall and so were determined to direct our course for New-found-land there to refresh vs and supply our selues with victuall to bring vs home but it pleased God to dispose otherwise of vs and to giue vs better meanes For being all of vs shipped in foure pinnaces and departed from the towne almost downe halfe the Riuer we met my Lord de la Warre comming vp with three ships wet furnished with victuall which reuiued all the company and gaue them great content And after some few dayes my Lord vnderstanding of the great plentie of Hogges and Fish was at the Barmudas and the necessitie of them in Virginia was desirous to send thither to supply himselfe with those things for the better comforting of his men and the plantation of the Countrey Whereupon Sir George Sommers being a man best acquainted with the place and being willing to do seruice vnto his Prince and Countrey without any respect of his own priuate gaine and being of threescore yeares of age at the least out of his worthy and valiant minde offered himselfe to vndertake to performe with Gods helpe that dangerous voyage for the Barmudas for the better releefe and comfort of the people in Virginia and for the better plantation of it which offer my Lord de la Warre very willingly and thankfully accepted and so vpon the nineteenth of Iune Sir George Sommers imbarked himselfe at Iames towne in a small Barge of thirtie tonne or thereabout that he built at the Barmudas wherein hee laboured from morning vntill night as duelie as any workeman doth labour for mages and built her all with Cedar with little or no yron worke at all hauing in her but one boult which was in the kilson notwithstanding thankes be to God shee brought vs in safety to Virginia and so I trust he wil protect him and send him wel back againe to his harts desire and the great comfort of all the company there AN ADDITION SENT HOME BY THE LAST SHIPS from our Colonie in the Barmudas BEing bound for the Sommer Ilands in the shippe called the Plough wee imbarked the 28. of Aprill 1612. So passing downe to Grauesend wee anchored at Tilbery hope vntill the fifth of May. The winde comming faire wee put foorth and came to the Downes the sixth of May where we stayed till the ninth And then setting forward wee had a faire and comfortable passage and by Gods blessing found so direct a course that on the eleuenth of Iuly in the morning betwixt nine and ten of the clocke wee discried our hoped and desired Ilands and in the afternoone of the same day about three a clocke we arriued in a very safe harbour neare S. Georges Iland there we landed all our men and women and had beene at an anchor abdue an houre before wee could heare of our three men which had been left there As soone as wee had landed all our company we went all to prayer and gaue thankes vnto the Lord for our safe arriuall and whilest we were at prayer wee saw our three men come rowing downe to vs the sight of whom did much reioyce vs so they welcomming vs and we the like to them againe we sung a Psalme and praised the Lord for our safe meeting and went to supper The next day being the Sabbath day which wee dedicated to God in the best manner we could wee abode still in the foresaid Iland with all the rest of our company till munday morning being the thirteenth of Iuly then wee went vp with our ship and company higher into the harbour to the place where these three men had planted themselues And wheras many English men would haue thought that wee should haue found these three men either dead or more like sauage then ciuill I assure you al my friends and acquaintance and so generally to all my country men in England we found them ciuill honest and religious and making conscience of their waies you shall not heare an oath proceed out of their mouths vaine and idle talke they vsed not and it seemed apparantly vnto our eyes that they haue not beene idly giuen For howsoeuer to be but three of them left in such a desolate place not inhabited nor assured of any to come to them would haue made most men fainted in any thing they should haue took in hād yet was it not so with these mē nay they shewed vnto vs a good example who are now come to them For they haue planted corne great store of wheate Beanes Tobacco and Mellons with many other good things for the vse of man besides they haue wrought vpon timber in squaring sawing of Cedar trees for they intended to build a small Pinnace to carry them into Virginia being almost out of hope and comfort of our comming because Captaine Dauies his time was to haue beene with them long before we came And thus they spent their time in labor imploying themselues in one good action or other Now to certifie you the truth of the state of the Country I am loath to write that which I haue seene by reason you would condemne my writing as I feare and thinke it to be but false reports come from vs to draw more company hither for I perceiue the world is giuē too much to such surmises But why should I feare to write that which I know to be true when as all the shippes company will or may approue it but cannot reproue it As first the Captaine the Master and his Mate and all the rest of the Saylers first I will begin with the Fish and Fowls which the Countrey doth yeeld We were no sooner come within a league of the land but a company of Fish as it were met vs and neuer left vs til we were come to an ankor within the harbour and as soone as we had passed ouer our

busines and all things safe and in order with a hooke and line wee tooke more then all our whole company was able to eate so that there was enough to feed many more The next day after the Sabbath wee went with our net and boat and if we would haue loaded two boats we might and so may you doe day by day Fishes doe so abound and they be of these sorts Mullets Breames Hogge-fish Rock-fish and Lobstars with more sorts of other Fish which I cannot name Turkles there bee of a mightie bignesse one Turkle will serue or suffice three or foure score at a meale especially if it bee a shee Turkle for she will haue as many egges as will suffice fiftie or threescore at a meale this I can assure you they are very good and wholesome meate none of it bad no not so much as the very guts and maw of it for they are exceeding fat and make as good tripes as your beastes bellies in England And for Fowle wee went the third day of our arriuall vnto the Bird-Ilands as we call them and vsing neither sticke nor stone-bow nor gunne wee tooke them vp with our hands so many as we would that euery one of the company were to haue some three some foure a peece three for a childe boy or girle for a man foure then reckon what those that serued some fourescore people did amount vnto But this is for certaine if we would haue brought away twice so many more wee might but our order is not to take Fish or Fowle but for one or two meales because that by reason of the flies and heate of the countrey they will not keepe especially these two monthes Iune and Iuly and some part of August Some sixe dayes after our comming we sent out for Hogges so the company which went out brought home some for the meat of them I hould your mutton of England not of so sweet and pleasant a taste Fowles there are of diuers sorts but amongst all there is a bird like vnto yours which you call in England a Crow which though they talke in the Barmuda language yet their tongues shall walke as fast as any English womans wee cannot goe vp into the woods but they will follow after vs with such an outcry that it would fret a man to heare them they are very good meat fat and as white flesh as a Chicken we many times make some of them leaue their talking with stones or cudgels for they will sit and face you hard at your hand And whereas it is reported that this Land of the Barmudas with the Ilands about it which are many at the least an hundred are inchanted and kept with euill and wicked spirits it is a most idle and false report God grant that wee haue brought no wicked spirits with vs or that there comes none after vs for we found none there so ill as our selues nor the three men neuer saw any euill or hurtfull thing in the Land all the time since their comming and wee hane found the like since our landing no nor any noysome thing or hurtfull more then a poore flie which tarries not aboue two or three moneths For the inclination of the weather considering in what climate it lies wee haue had for the space of some fortie dayes no raine but very coole and fresh gales of winde yet in the day-time very hotte but wee agree with it very wel and not a man that hath lien sicke or diseased but all likes well and followes imployes themselues to one businesse or other For the fruits which the Land yeelds they bee the Mulberie great store and Peares which haue in them a red liquor as the Pomgranat hath or somewhat redder but very wholesome if you eat an hundred at one time you shall neuer surfet of them if you eat som proportion of them they will bind but if you exceed in eating of them then are they of the contrary operation yet neuer any that hurt themselues by them eat they neuer so many It is certaine that one man eat aboue a peck of them in some ten houres and was neuer the worse We haue a kinde of Berrie vpon the Cedar tree verie pleasant to eat and for the Palmito tree the toppe of it is a great deale sweeter and wholesomer then any Cabedge In some of our Ilands there growes Pepper but not so good as our Indian Pepper diuers sorts of other good things there is which the seuerall times of the yeare bring forth one after another but the top of the Palmito tree is in season and good all the yeare For the ground I hold it the richest ground to beare forth fruit whatsoeuer one shall lay into it that is in the world and very easie and light for digging so that if a man wil labour he may turne vp a great quantitie in a day for it is a fat sandy ground of colour a brownered After the time of our landing many of the company digged certaine plats of ground and sowed diuers sortes of seedes to make triall of the ground and for certaine they were seene aboue the ground sprung vp the fourth day after their sowing and amongst all the rest of the seeds the Cowcumber and the Mellon were forward we haue set and sowed fourescore and one sorts of seeds it was ten dayes before the shippes comming away and for the most part they are all come vp Of necessitie I must needs mention the Palme-tree once againe I haue found it so good take a hatchet and cut him or an augar and bore him and it yeelds a very pleasant liquour much like vnto your sweete wines it beares likewise a berry in bignes of a prune and in taste much like Also we haue Oliues grow with vs but no great store many other good excellent things we haue grow with vs which this short time will not permit me to write of so largely as I might but this is of truth that Hogges Turkles Fish and Fowle doe abound as dust of the earth for Amber-greece and Pearle wee haue not had leasure in so few dayes since our arriuall to goe looke out for the one or to fish for the other but the three men which were left there haue found of them both Also they haue made a great deale of Tobacco and if some would come that haue skill in making it it would bee very commodious both to the Merchant and to the maker of it And for the Silke-worme if any were brought ouer and some of skill to vse them there would be very much good done with them for the verie Spider in these our Ilands doth weaue perfect fine Silke both yellow and white The Timber of the Countrey consisteth of three sorts the one is the Cedar verie fine Timber to worke vpon of colour redde and verie sweete the other sorts wee haue no name for for there is none in the company hath seene the like in other Countries before we came some