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A12461	The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning. an⁰: 1584. to this present 1624. With the procedings of those severall colonies and the accidents that befell them in all their journyes and discoveries. Also the maps and descriptions of all those countryes, their commodities, people, government, customes, and religion yet knowne. Divided into sixe bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Barra, John, ca. 1574-1634, engraver.	1624 (1624)	STC 22790; ESTC S111882	354,881	269

the Grecians but part of Europe and Asia The Romans indeed had a great part of both as well as Affrica but as for all the Northerne parts of Europe and Asia the interior Southern and Westerne parts of Affrica all America Terra incognita they were all ignorant nor is our knowledge yet but superficiall That their beginnings ending and limitations were proportioned by the Almightie is most evident but to consider of what small meanes many of them haue begun is wonderfull For some write that even Rome her selfe during the Raigne of Romulus exceeded not the number of a thousand houses And Carthage grew so great a Potentate that at first was but incirculed in the thongs of a Bulls skinne as to fight with Rome for the Empire of the world Yea Venice at this time the admiration of the earth was at first but a Marish inhabited by poore Fishermen And likewise Ninivie Thebes Babylon Delus Troy Athens Mycena and Sparta grew from small beginnings to be most famous States though now they retaine little more then a naked name Now this our yong Common-wealth in Virginia as you haue read once consisted but of 38 persons and in two yeares increased but to 200. yet by this small meanes so highly was approved the Plantation in Virginia as how many Lords with worthy Knights and braue Gentlemen pretended to see it and some did and now after the expence of fifteene yeares more and such massie summes of men and money grow they disanimated If we truely consider our Proceedings with the Spanyards and the rest we haue no reason to despayre for with so small charge they never had either greater Discoveries with such certaine tryals of more severall Commodities then in this short time hath beene returned from Virginia and by much lesse meanes New England was brought out of obscuritie and affoorded fraught for neare 200 sayle of ships where there is now erected a braue Plantation For the happines of Summer Isles they are no lesse then either and yet those haue had a far lesse and a more difficult beginning then either Rome Carthage or Venice Written by Richard Pots Clarke of the Councell William Tankard and G.P. New seeing there is thus much Paper here to spare that you should not be altogether clered with Prose such Verses as my worthy Friends bestowed vpon New England I here present you because with honestie I can neither reiect nor omit their courtesies In the deserued Honour of the Author Captaine Iohn Smith and his Worke. DAmn'd Envie is a sp'rite that ever haunts Beasts mis-nam'd Men Cowards or Ignorants But onely such shee followes whose deare WORTH Maugre her malice sets their glory forth If this faire Overture then take not It Is Envie 's spight deare friend in men of-wit Or Feare lest morsels which our mouths possesse Might fall from thence or else t is Sottishnesse If either I hope neither thee they raise Thy Letters are as Letters in thy praise Who by their vice improue when they reprooue Thy vertue so in hate procure thee Loue. Then On firme Worth this Monument I frame Scorning for any Smith to forge such fame Iohn Davies Heref To his worthy Captaine the Author THat which wee call the subiect of all Storie Is Truth which in this Worke of thine giues glorie To all that thou hast done Then scorne the spight Of Envie which doth no mans Merits right My sword may helpe the rest my Pen no more Can doe but this I 'aue said enough before Your sometime Souldier I. Codrinton now Templer To my Worthy Friend and Cosen Captaine Iohn Smith IT over-ioyes my heart when as thy Words Of these designes with deeds I doe compare Here is a Booke such worthy truth affords None should the due desert thereof impare Sith thou the man deserving of these Ages Much paine hast ta'en for this our Kingdomes good In Climes vnknowne 'Mongst Turks and Salvages T' inlarge our bounds though with thy losse of blood Hence damn'd Detraction stand not in our way Envie it selfe will not the Truth gainesay N. Smith In the deserved Honour of my honest and worthy Captaine Iohn Smith and his Worke. CAptaine and friend when I pervse thy Booke With Iudgements eyes into my heart I looke And there I finde what sometimes Albion knew A Souldier to his Countries-honour true Some fight for wealth and some for emptie praise But thou alone thy Countries Fame to raise With due discretion and vndanted heart I oft so well haue seene thee act thy Part In deepest plunge of hard extreamitie As forc't the troups of proudest foes to flie Though men of greater Ranke and lesse desert Would Pish-away thy Praise it can not start From the true Owner for all good mens tongues Shall keepe the same To them that Part belongs If then Wit Courage and Successe should get Thee Fame the Muse for that is in thy debt A part whereof least able though I be Thus here I doe disburse to honor Thee Raleigh Crashaw Michael Phettiplace Wil Phettiplace and Richard Wiffing Gentlemen and Souldiers vnder Captaine Smiths command In his deserved honour for his Worke and Worth VVHy may not wee in this Worke haue our Mite That had our share in each black day and night When thou Virginia foild'st yet kept'st vnstaind And held'st the King of Paspeheh exchaind Thou all alone this Salvage sterne didst take Pamavnkees King wee saw thee captiue make Among seauen hundred of his stoutest men To murther thee and vs resolved when Fast by the hayre thou ledst this Salvage grins Thy Pistoll at his breast to governe him Which did infuse such awe in all the rest Sith their drad Soveraigne thou had'st so distrest That thou and wee poore sixteene safe retir'd Vnto our helplesse Ships Thou thus admir'd Didst make proud Powhatan his subiects send To Iames his Towne thy censure to attend And all Virginia's Lords and pettie Kings Aw'd by thy vertue crouch and Presents brings To gaine thy grace so dreaded thou hast beene And yet a heart more milde is seldome seene So making Valour Vertue really Who hast nought in thee counterfeit or slie If in the sleight be not the truest Art That make's men famoused for faire desert Who saith of thee this sauors of vaine glorie Mistakes both thee and vs and this true Storie If it be ill in Thee so well to doe Then is ill in Vs to praise thee too But if the first be well done it is well To say it doth if so it doth excell Praise is the guerdon of each deare desert Making the praised act the praised part With more alacritie Honours Spurre is Praise Without which it regardlesse soone decaies And for this paines of thine wee praise thee rather That future Times may know who was the father Of that rare Worke New England which may bring Praise to thy God and profit to thy King The Summer Ils. The tribes ar signifyed by these Figurs 1. Sands 2. Southampton 3. Warwick 4.

weeke said It was but three daies since Sunday and desired to know the reason which when hee vnd●rstood he and all of them admired the goodnesse of God towards vs shewing the difference betwixt their coniurations and our praiers and what stormes and dangers they oft receiue thereby To expresse our thankfulnesse wee assembled together another day as before and either the next morning or not long after came in two ships to supply vs and all their Passengers well except one and he presently recouered For vs notwithstanding all these wants there was not a sicke person amongst vs. The greater ship we returned fraught the other wee sent to the Southward to trade vnder the command of Captaine Altom So that God be thanked we desire nothing but what we will returne Commodities to the value Thus all men finde our great God he That neuer wanted nature To teach his truth that onely he Of euery thing is Author For this yeere from England is gone about fortie saile of ships only to fish and as I am informed haue made a farre better voyage then euer Now some new great obseruers will haue this an Iland because I haue writ it is the Continent others report that the people are so bruit they haue no religion wherein surely they are deceiued for my part I neuer heard of any Nation in the world which had not a Religion deare bowes and arrowes They beleeue as doe the Virginians of many diuine powers yet of one aboue all the rest as the Southerne Virginians call their chiefe God Kewassa and that wee now inhabit Oke but both their Kings Werowance The Masachusets call their great God Kiehtan and their Kings there abou ts Sachems The Penobscotes their greatest power Tantum and their Kings Sagomes Those where is this Plantation say Ki●htan made all the other Gods also one man and one woman and of them all mankinde but how they became so dispersed they know not They say at first there was no King but Kiehtan that dwelleth farre westerly aboue the heauens whither all good men goe when they die and haue plentie of all things The bad men goe thither also and knocke at the doore but he bids them goe wander in endlesse want and miserie for they shall not stay there They neuer saw Kiehtan but they hold it a great charge and dutie that one age teach another and to him they make feasts and cry and sing for plentie and victorie or any thing is good They haue another Power they call Hobam●ck which wee conceiue the Deuill and vpon him they call to cure their wounds and diseases when they are curable he perswades them he sent them because they haue displeased him but if they be mortall then he saith Kiehtan sent them which makes them neuer call on him in their sicknesse They say this Hobamock appeares to them somtimes like a Man a Deere or an Eagle but most commonly like a Snake not to all but only to their Powahs to cure diseases and V●deses which is one of the chiefe next the King and so bold in the warres that they thinke no weapon can kill them and those are such as coniure in Virginia and cause the people to doe what they list For their Gouernment euery Sachem is not a King but their great Sachems haue diuers Sachems vnder their protection paying them tribute and dare make no warres without his knowledge but euery Sachem taketh care for the Widowes Orphans the aged and maimed nor will they take any to first wife but them in birth equall to themselues although they haue many inferior Wiues and Concubins that attend on the principall from whom he neuer parteth but any of the rest when they list they inherit by succession and euery one knowes their owne bounds To his men hee giueth them land also bounded and what Deere they kill in that circuit he hath the sore-part but it in the water onely the skin But they account none a man till hee hath done some notable exploit the men are most imploied in hunting the women in slauery the younger obey the elders their names are variable they haue harlots and honest women the harlots neuer marrie or else are widowes They vse diuorcement and the King commonly punisheth all offenders himselfe when a maid is maried she cutteth her haire and keepes her head couered till it be growne againe Their arts games musicke attire burials and such like differ very little from the Virginians onely for their Chronicles they make holes in the ground as the others set vp great stones Out of the Relations of Master Edward Winslow Now I know the common question is For all those miseries where is the wealth they haue got or the Gold or Siluer Mines To such greedy vnworthy minds I say once againe The Sea is better then the richest Mine knowne and of all the fishing ships that went well prouided there is no complaint of losse nor misery but rather an admiration of wealth profit and health As for the land were it neuer so good in two yeeres so few of such small experience liuing without supplies so well and in health it was an extraordinary blessing from God But that with such small meanes they should subsist and doe so much to any vnderstanding judgement is a wonder Notwithstanding the vaine expectation of present gaine in some ambition in others that to be great would haue all else slaues and the carelesnesse in prouiding supplies hath caused those defailements in all those Plantations and how euer some bad conditions will extoll the actions of any Nation but their owne yet if we may giue credit to the Spaniards Portugals and French writings they indured as many miseries and yet not in twenty yeeres effected so much nay scarce in fortie Thus you may see plainly the yeerely successe from New England by Virginia which hath beene so costly to this Kingdome and so deare to me which either to see perish or but bleed Pardon me though it passionate me beyond the bounds of modesty to haue beene sufficiently able to fore-see their miseries and had neither power nor meanes to preuent it By that acquaintance I haue with them I call them my children for they haue beene my Wife my Hawks Hounds my Cards my Dice and in totall my best content as indifferent to my heart as my left hand to my right And notwithstanding all those miracles of disasters haue crossed both them and me yet were there not an Englishman remaining as God be thanked notwithstanding the massacre there are some thousands I would yet begin againe with as small meanes as I did at first not that I haue any secret encouragement I protest more then lamentable experience for all their discoueries I haue yet heard of are but Pigs of my owne Sow nor more strange to me then to heare one tell me hee hath gone from Billingsgate and discouered Grauesend Tilbury Quinborow Lee and Margit which to