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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12471	The true travels, adventures, and observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in Europe, Asia, Affrica, and America, from anno Domini 1593. to 1629 His accidents and sea-fights in the straights; his service and stratagems of warre in Hungaria, Transilvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia, against the Turks, and Tartars ... After how he was taken prisoner by the Turks, sold for a slave ... and escaped ... Together with a continuation of his generall History of Virginia, Summer-Iles, New England, and their proceedings, since 1624. to this present 1629; as also of the new plantations of the great river of the Amazons, the iles of St. Christopher, Mevis, and Barbados in the West Indies. All written by actuall authours, whose names you shall finde along the history.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1630 (1630)	STC 22796; ESTC S111906	69,204	79

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