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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    so hot that no man was able to stand long by it. Our [1607] Admirall [here designating the Chief in command, not the flagship], Captaine Newport, caused a piece of Porke to be put in it; which boyled it so, in the space of halfe an hour, as no fire could mend it. Then we went aboord, and sailed by many Hands, as Mounserot [.Montserrat] and an Hand called Saint Christopher ; both vninhabited. About two a clocke in the afternoone [28 March], wee Menu. anchored at the He of Meuis [i.e., Nevis]. There the Cap¬ taine landed all his men, being well fitted with Muskets and other conuenient Armes; [and] marched a mile into the Woods : being [where they were] commanded to stand vpon their guard, fearing the treacherie of the Indians; which is an ordinary vse amongst them, and all other Sauages on this He. We came to a Bath standing in a Valley Bathat betwixt two Hils, where wee bathed our selues ; and ems' found it to be of the nature of the Bathes [mineral springs] in England, some places hot and some colder : and men may refresh themselues as they please. Finding this place to be so conuenient for our men to auoid diseases which will breed in so long a Voyage, wee incamped ourselues on this He sixe dayes [28 Mar.-2 April [//. xxxa, 1607], and spent none of our ships victuall, by reason our commodi- men, some went a hunting, some a fouling, and some a tiesthere* fishing: where we got great store of Conies, sundry kinds of fowles, and great plentie of fish. We kept Centinels and Courts de gard [Pickets] at euery Captaines quarter, fearing wee should be assaulted by the Indians, that were on the other side of the Hand. Wee saw [met with] none, nor were molested by any: but some few we saw as we were a hunting on the Hand. They would not come to vs by any meanes, but ranne swiftly through the Woods to the Mountaine tops, so we lost the sight of them : whereupon we made all the haste wee could to our quarter [camp], thinking there had beene a great ambush of Indians there abouts. We past into the thickest of the Woods, where we had almost lost our selues. We had not gone aboue halfe a mile amongst the thicke,but we came into a most pleasant Garden : being a hundred paces square on euery side, hauing many Cotton-trees growing in it with abundance
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