Volume 1

Travels and works of Captain John Smith, President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England / edited by Edward Arber.

  • John Smith
Date:
1910
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Credit: Travels and works of Captain John Smith, President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England / edited by Edward Arber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    22 June 1607. by others heretofore, the Sea againe, the Mountaynes [1607] Apalatsi, or some issue. The names of the Dysco- vererers are thes • Captaine Christofer Newport. George Percye esq. N Captaine Gabrieli Archer Captaine Ihon Smyth y Master Ihon Brookes Master Thomas Wotton , ffrancys Nellson John Collson Robert Tyndall Mathew ffytch 1. Ionas Poole. 2. Robert Markham. 3. lohn Crookdeck. 4. Olyver Browne. 5. Beniamyn White. 6. Ry chard G enow ay. 7. Thomas Turnbrydge. 8. Thomas Godword. 9. Robert Iackson. 10. Charles Clarke. 11. Stephen. 12. Thomas Skynner. 13. Ieremy Deale. 14. D any ell. Thus from lames Fort we tooke our leave about Noone, and by night we were vp the Ryver. 18. myle at a lowe meadow point, which I call Wynauh. Here came the people, and entertayned vs with Daunces and much reioycing. This kyngdome Wynauh is full of pearle muskles. The kyng of Paspeiouh and this king is at odds, as the Paspeians tould me, and Demonstrated by their hurtes : heere we anckored all night. ffryday, omitting no tyme, we passed vp some. 16. myle May 22. further, where we founde an Ilet, on which were many Turkeys, and greate store of yonge byrdes like Black birdes, wherof wee tooke Dyvers, which wee brake our fast withall. Now spying. 8. salvages in a Canoa, we haled them by our worde of kyndnes; Wingapoh, and they came to vs. In conference by signes with them, one seemed to ^ xliii> vnderstand our intentyon, and offred with his foote to xivii, iv.]’ Describe the river to vs: So I gaue him a pen and paper (shewing first ye vse) and he layd out the whole River from the Chesseian bay to the end of it so farr as passadg[e] was for boats: he tolde vs of two Iletts in the Ryver we should passe by, meaning that one whereon we were, and e
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