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III.

>04.

Chap. HI. from the 1, os James I. to the Revolution.

CHAP. III.

Naval Expeditions and TranfaSHons of the English, 'with other remarkable

Events, of the Tear, 1605.

1605.Harris’* Col.

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P.L p. 817-Purchas,

Vol. IV. p.

1659 .

Smith’s Gen.

History ofVirg. p. 18 . when

History of EarlVirg. p.n.

eymouthIs Voyage to Virginia, (a)

H E Way co Virginia began nowto be pretty well known, andthe Commerce to those Parts tobe in some Measure advanced,the Right Honourable, Henry,rirg> —* of Southampton , and the Lord

Briti'sts 'Em- Thomas Ar uncle I, of Warder, fitted outpnein A- the Ship, called the Archangel , for aplTz”.’ ' ' trading Voyage thither, under the Com-Rofier’s R e - tnand of Captain George Weymouth,tffonofthe She departed, the thirty-first Day of.He departs March, from Dartmouth, and had aprosperous Voyage, ’till she came to-wards the desired Coasts. Their Designwas to fall in with the Land about thethe Coast °of Latitude of thirty-nine Degrees ; ButVirginia: the Winds putting them a little fartherNorthward, they came into about forty-one Degrees and a half, where, theirWood and Water beginning to growshort, they extremly wilhed for aSight ofLand. By their Charts they had Rea-son to expect: it, and therefore bore di-rectly in with it, according to their Pre-scriptions ; Yet they found none, in al-most fifty Leagues running. After muchExpectation, on the sixteenth of May ,they got Sight of an Island of no greatCompass, and very woody along theShoar ; But,by the Fruits which appear-ed, no barren nor despiceable Spot;Especially as there were Streams of freshWater running down the Cliffs, in greatPlenty, vast Numbers of Fowls, andFish enough all along the Shoar. ThisIsland is now called Long Island, (&) and

it was upon the Eastern Parts of it theyfell.

From hence they could discern agreat many other Islands, and the mainLand itself, from the West-South-Westto the East-North-East. Several of the

•And visitsf be Islands.

Islands adjoining to the Continent theyvisited, and found them all very full ofTrees, both Timber and Fruit, of se-veral Sorts. Among these Islands theyfound a Harbour, in which Ships of anyBurden might ly defended from all Man-ner of Winds, in six to ten Fathom Wa-ter, upon a tough Clay-Ooze. Thisthey called Pentecoft Harbour, becauseit was at Whitfontide they discovered it.TheFir-trees, which were in great Num -bers, on theselslands, yielded an exceed-ing sweet Turpentine; And the Muscleswhich they found about the Rocks af-forded small Pearl in Abundance, andsome that were large and Orient; Andthe Shell of these Pearls, on the Inside,resembled Mother of Pearl; But theywanted proper Tackle to dredge forthem.

The Savages from the Continent cameoff, in their Canoes, to traffick withthem, while they lay in . this excellentHarbour, their Commerce being muchthe same as the Reader has already seen,in former Voyages; All Sorts or Skinsand Furs, in Exchange for Knives,Beads, and such like Trifles; And sogood Chapmen were they at that Time,that they would give the Value of tenor twelve Pounds in their Goods,, forfive Shilling’s-worth of English Iron-monger’s Ware. I shall not enlarge onthe Manners, Habits and Customs, ststc.of the Natives, which, were the samewe have already seen. Their Bows,Arrows and Canoes, had nothing inthem but what was common among o-ther Savages. Their Tobacco PipesWere sometimes made of Clay, andsometimes the Claw of a Lobster only;But always of a Capacity to hold ten ortwelve of ours.

They

1605.

Pentecost*Harbour .

Excellent.

Turpentine.

Pearls.

Traffickwith theNatives.

Rosier’* R e .lation.

(a) A Relation of this Voyage, at large,was publilhed the very fame Year, by Mr. JamesRoster , a Gentleman employed. in it by the LordArundel, from which our more modern Accountsseem to be, in a great Measure, Abstracts,

(st) In , the . Introduction to the Col leer ion ef Introd- toVoyages, in FI. Folumes in Folio, it is called, St. CcL.cfFoy..George’s. Island- VIVoLinFel,