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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72554	A voyage into Nevv England begun in 1623. and ended in 1624 Performed by Christopher Levett, his Maiesties woodward of Somerset-shire, and one of the Councell of New-England.	Levett, Christopher, 1586-1630.	1624 (1624)	STC 15553.5; ESTC S124914	22,687	47

strangely if they hope to get any thing of him And yet will they count him a foole if he doe not shevv a dislike of it and vvill say on to another that such a man is a Mechecome They are slow of speech and if they heare a man speake much they will laugh at him and say he is a Mechecum that is a foole If men of place be to familiar with them they will not respect them therefore it is to be wished that all such persons should be wise in their Carriage The Sagamores will scarce speake to an ordinary man but will point to their men and say Sanops must speake to Sanops and Sagamors to Sagamors They are very bloudy minded and full of Tracherie amongst themselues one will kill another for their wiues and he that hath the most wiues is the brauest fellow therefore I would wish no man to trust them what euer they say or doe but alwaies to keepe a strickt hand ouer them and yet to vse them kindly and deale vprightly with them so shall they please God keepe their reputation amongst them and be free from danger Their Sagamors are no Kings as I verilie beleeve for I can see no Gouernment or Law amongst them but Club Law and they call all Masters of Shippes Sagamore or any other man that they see haue a commaund of men Their wiues are their slaues and doe all their worke the men will doe nothing but kill Beasts Fish c. On a time reasoning with one of their Sagamors about there hauing so many wiues I tould him it was no good fashion he then asked mee how many wiues King Iames had I told him he neuer had but one and shee was dead at which he wondred and asked mee who then did all the Kings worke You may Imagin he thought their fashion was vniuersall and that no King had any to worke for them but their wiufs They haue no apparrell but skinnes except they haue it from the English or French in winter the weare the haire side inwards in summer outwards They haue a peece of a skinne about their loines like a girdle and betweene their legges goes another made fast to the girdle before and behind which serues to couer their nakednesse they are all thus apparrelled going bare headed with long haire sometimes you shall not know the men from women but by their breasts the men having no haire on their faces When their Children are borne they bind them on a peece of board and sets it vpright either against a tree or any other place They keep them thus bound vntill they be three months old and after they are continuall naked vntill they be about fiue or sixe yeares Yee shall haue them many times take their Children bury them in the snow all but their faces for a time to make them the better to indure cold and when they are not aboue 2. yeares old they will take them and cast them into the Sea like a little dogge or Cat to learne them to swimme Their weapons are bowes and arrowes I never saw more then two fowling peeces one pistall about foure Halfe-pikes and three Curt-laces amongst them so that we neede not to feare them much if wee auoid their Treacherie Their houses are built in halfe an houres space being onely a few powles or boughes stucke in the ground and couered with the barkes of trees Their Language differs as English Welsh On a time the Gouernour was at my house and brought with him a Salvage who liued not aboue 70. miles from the place which I haue made choise of vvho talking vvith another Sauage they vvere glad to vse broken English to expresse their mind each to other not being able to vnderstand one another in their Language And to say something of the Countrey I will not doe therein as some haue done to my knowledge speake more then is true I will not tell you that you may smell the corne fields before you see the Land neither must men thinke that corne doth growe naturally or on trees nor will the Deare come when they are called or stand still and looke one a man untill he shute him not knowing a man from a beast nor the fish leape into the kettle nor on the drie Land neither are they so plentifull that you may dipp them up in baskets nor take Codd in netts to make a voyage which is no truer then that the fowles will present themselues to you with spitts through them But certainely their is fowle Deare and Fish enough for the taking if men be dilligent there be also Vines Plume trees Cherey trees Strawberies Goosberies and Raspes Walnutts chesnut and small nuts of each great plenty there is also great store of parsley and divers other hole some Earbes both for profit and pleasure with great store of Saxifrage Cersa perilla and Anni seeds And for the ground there is large goodly Marsh to make meddow higher land for pasture and corne There be these severall sorts of earth which I haue seene as Clay Sand Grauill yea and as blacke fatt earth as ever I sawe in England in all my life There are likewise these helpes for ground as Sea-sand Oreworth or Wracke Marle blew and white and some men say there is Lime but I must confesse I neuer saw any Lime-stone but I haue tried the Shels of Fish and I find them to be good Lime Now let any husbandman tell mee whither there be any feare of hauing any kind of Corne hauing these seuerall kinds of Earth with these helpes the Climat being full as good if not better then England I dare be bold to say also there may be Shippes as conueniently built there as in any place of the world where I haue beene and better cheape As for Plancke crooked Timber and all other forts what soeuer can be desired for such purpose the world cannot afford better Masts and Yeards of all sises there be all so Teees growing whereof Pitch and Tarre is made And for Sailes and all sorts Cordish you neede not to want if you will but sowe Hempe and Flax seede and after worke it Now there wants nothing but Iron and truely I thinke I haue seene Iron-stone there but I must acknowledge I haue no great iudgement in Mineralls yet I haue seene the Iron-workes in England and this Stone is like ours But howsoeuer if the Countrie will not afford Iron yet it may be easilie brought for it is good Ballast for Shippes There is also much excellent Timber for Ioyne●s and Coopers howsoeuer a worthy Noble man hath beene abused who sent ouer some to make Pippe-staues who either for want of skill or industrie did no good Yet I dare say no place in England can afford better Timber for Pippe-staues then foure seuerall places which I haue seene in that Countrey Thus haue I relaited vnto you what I haue seene and doe know may be had in those parts of New-England where I haue

pounds 13 shillings 4 pence these men stay in the Countrey and doe take the benefit both of the first last fishing season all other oportunities the Fishing continuing good at the least seauen Moneths in the yeare though not all at one time now I hope you will grant that they are as likelie to take two Shippes lading as the other one which if they doe one third thereof at the same rate will amount to 2680 pounds the charge you are at being deducted the profit is 1019 pounds 6 shillings 8 pence Now tell me seriously which is the more profitable course Againe consider that in all likelihood this Fish is to be taken in 5. Moneths then haue you 7. Moneths more to imploy your men in the Countrey euery yeare about building of Shippes cleauing of pipe-staues or any other thing and will that be worth nothing Truely this I will say send men ouer but with 18 Moneths prouision and Cattell and Corne to plant and other necessaries and they shall afford you thus much profit yearely without euer putting you to more charge if God blesse them with health and you from losses and I neuer heard of any great losse by aduenturing thither and that you bee fitted with good and vnderstanding men to ouer see the businesse who is able to direct them CHAP. VII Sheweth how euery parish may be freed of their weekly payments to the poore by the profits which may bee fetched thence With certaine Obiections against the things contained in this and the former chapter with answers thereunto AND thus haue I shewed you what hopes there is of profit by plantations yet haue I shewed you no other meanes to raise it but by fish and timber I would not haue you say there is nothing else in the Country to make any benefite of for I assure you it is well knowne to my selfe and others who haue beene there that there are diverse other good things there to be had but I doe not loue to speake of all at one time but to reserue some to stop the mouths of such prating coxcombs as will neuer be satisfied with any reason but will alwaies cavill though to little purpose And me thinks I heare some such people buzzing in some other obiections and bidding me stay and not fish before the net for there are many lets as these There are many ships goe that makes not so good voyages as I speake of for they are so long beaten in their passage or on the coast that the best of the fishing is past before they be there To that I answer I speak not what euery ship doth but what some doe and all others may doe if they be in the Country to take all opportunities 2 Obict That it is not possible to make Plantations so publicke a businesse as that it should redound to the benefit of all the Kings Subiects And againe that there will never be so much mony rased as to establish such Plantations for that most men in this age respects their own profit 100 times more then the publicke good and their hearts are so glewed to the world that you shall as soone hang them as draw any thing from them though it be to never so charitable an use And if it should be by way of commandment it would be a grievance not to be endured But I would aske such men whether they be so void of charity as that they will not doe themselues good because some others shall haue some by it also And whether they will be grieued at a man for shewing of them how by the disbursing of 20 shillings they shall haue 20 shillings a year for seuen ten or twenty years and perhaps for euer My desire is not that any should be compelled Onely this I could wish that euery parish would adventure so much as they pay weekly to the reliefe of the poore which is no great matter And so euery shire by it selfe would send ouer men to plant And if after 18 moneths they shall not yearely returne so much profits continually as will keep their poore and ease their purses prouided alwaies as I said before that they send such men as are fit and that the Iustices of euery Shire be carefull to appoint such a man to be their Captaine and Director as is honest and of good vnderstanding and that God blesse them from losses will I be contented to suffer death And yet let me tell you that if it should please God that once in seuen yeares a ship should bee cast away which is more then hath beene usuall for I dare say that for euery ship that is cast away in those voyages there is 100 which commeth safe yet it is but that yeares profite lost and perhaps not halfe Another obiection may be this That all men are not Fishermen and that it is not so easie a thing to take fish as I make it To that I answer That take a survey of all the men that goeth in these voyages and there shall not bee found one third of them that are meerly fishermen and no other Trades Nay I know many ship-Companies that haue amongst them house-Carpenters Masons Smiths Taylors Shooemakers and such like and in deed it is most fit they should be such and I saw by experience that divers who were never at Sea before this yeare proued very good fishermen but I could wish that euer a fist part of a Company be Fishermen and the rest will quickly be trained up and made skilfull I would to God that some one Shire or more would begin this godly and profitable course For certainely God hath created all for the use of man and nothing hath he created in vayne And if wee will endure povertie in England willfully and suffer so good a Countrey as this is to lye wast I am perswaded wee are guiltie of a greivous finne against God and shall never be able to answer it I could also wish that the Lords both spirituall and temporall the Knights and others to whome God hath given abundance of these outward things would for the honour of God the comfort of the poore of our Land ioyne together and by a voluntary contribution rayse a summe of money and imploy it this way And that the profites might goe to the maintaining of poore children and trayning them up in this course by which they may be kept from begging and stealing CHAP. VIII Containes certaine directions for all priuate persons that intends to goe into New-England to plant NExt unto this I could wish that euery priuate man that hath a desire this way would consider these things which I wil heere set downe before he goe too farre lest he depriue himselfe of the profite I haue shewed may be had and be one of those that repent when it is too late and so bring misery upon himselfe and scandalize the Country as others haue done 1. That it is a Countrey where none can liue except he either labour himselfe or be able to keepe others to labour for him 2. If a man haue a wife and many small children not to come there except for every three loyterers he haue one worker which if he haue he may make a shift to liue and not starue 3. If a man haue but as many good labourers as loyterers he shall liue much better there then in any place I know 4. If all be labourers and no children then let him not feare but to doe more good there in seuen yeares then in England in twenty 5. Let no man goe without 18 moneths prouision so shall he take the benefit of two seasons before his provision be spent 6. Let as many plant together as may be for you will finde that very comfortable profitable and secure FINIS