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Naval Expeditions, &c of the English,

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1585. Royal Navy j And that the wise andgreat Queen Elizabeth was very sensi-ble, that the Encouragement ihe gaveto the Trading Part of her Subjects wasthe main Support of her Glory, atHomeand abroad.

Sir Richard fell in with the Canaries,on the fourteenth: On the seventh ofMay, he came to Dominica, in the Weft-Indies, and landed at Puerto Rico, wherehe stay’d some Time, built a Fort, anda Pinnace, and gained some Advantagesover the Spaniards. At their Departurefrom hence, they took two rich SpanijhPrizes, in one of which were severalPassengers, whom they set at a prettyhigh Ransom. They came afterwards,with some Difficulty, to Isabella, on theNorth of Hispaniola ; Where theydrove a considerable Traffick with theSpaniards, and were courteously enter-tained by them ; Tho’ it plainly appea-red to be more out of Fear than Love.On the twentieth of June, they fell inwith the Continent of Florida, and werein great Danger at Cape Fear. The sixand twentieth of June they came to An-chor at the Island of JVokoken, in Vir-Vs A f j ra - ginia, where the Admiral’s Ship was>p w. ^osl, (Smith fays had like to have beencast away, but Purchas fays she funk)thro’ the Ignorance of the Pilot.

The abovemention’d Author of theHistory of Virginia fays, he took backthe two Indians with him, and, accord-A Colony ing to his Wisli, the latter End of May,left there. arrived at the fame Place, where theEnglish had been the Year before.

Here Mr. Ralph Lane was set onShoar, with a Hundred and eight Men,with all Necessaries for fettling a Colony.Under Mr. Lane, who Was vested withthe Dignity ot the Chief or Governourof the Colony, was left Mr. Philip A-mydas, as Admiral, (tho’, by the by,I do not find he had any Ships left underhis Command) with nineteen other Of-ficers and Gentlemen. Sir Richardstaid there himself about two Months,during which Time some Beans andPease, which they sowed, came up andgrew to Admiration. Having madesome little Discovery more in the Sound,to the Southward, and got some Trea-sure in Skins, Furs, Pearl, and otherÆ/rRichard'i Rarities of the Country, for Things ofReturn. inconsiderable Value, he returned forEngland.

In his Return Home, he took a rich-loaden Ship of three Hundred Tuns,from the Spaniards , on the thirty-first

of August, with which he arrived atPlymouth, the eighteenth of September,or (as Hackluyt lays) October.

As soon as Sir Richard was gone, thenew Planters, agreable as well to theirOrders, as their own Inclinations, letthemselves earnestly about discoveringthe Country. They fix’d upon Roan-nock for theirHabitation; But then rang'ed about a little too indiscreetly up theRivers, and into the Land backwardsfrom the Rivers, which gave the In-dians a Jealousy of their Intentions.This Jealousy prompted them to cut offseveral of the Stragglers, and to form aDesign of destroying the Rest; Butthey were happily prevented. TheEnglish were now put Upon the Precau-tion of keeping more within Bounds, andnot venturing themselves too defencelessabroad; Having ’till then placed toogreat Confidence in the Simplicity andInnocence of the Natives.

The Indians, on their Side, afterhaving done seme Mischief, never ob-served any real Faith more towards theEnglish : For being naturally suspiciousand revengeful themselves, they thoughtthe English would never forgive themthe Injury ; And thro’ a Jealousy, aris-ing from the Cowardice of their Nature,they were continually doing Mischief.

The Englijh, notwithstanding thisunexpected Obstruction, continued theirDiscoveries, but more carefully thanthey had done before; And kept theIndians in some Aw, by threatning themwith the Return of their Companions,with a greater Supply of Men andGoods. And before the Cold of theWinter became uneasy to them, theyhad extended their Discoveries near aHundred Miles along the Sea-Coast tothe Northward; But not reaching theSouthern Cape of Chesapeach Bay, inVirginia, they had as yet found no goodHarbour.

Captain Smith fays they extendedtheir Discovery, Southward, as far asSecotan, which they computed to be a-bout eighty Leagues. To the North-ward, the fame Author fays, their far-thest was to a Town of the Chefapeacks,one Hundred and thirty Miles fromRoannock. To the Northwestward, hefays, their farthest was Chazvonock, oneHundred and thirty Miles from Roan-nock.

In this Condition, they maintainedtheir Settlement, all the Winter ; Butwere very much distressed for Want of

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