Chap. III. from the Los James I, to the Revolution.
^25. Sagamo, or Commander, three were ofa Distinction above the Vulgar, and onea Servant.
j n Q,r It is observable, that in all these lat'
lation on' ter Voyages, they never so much as en-rtefe latter deavour'd to come near the Place wherevYrgmia^ ^ Settlement was attempted atCape Hattorask, neither had they anyPity on those poor Hundred and fifteenSouls settled there in 1587. of whomthere had never since been any Account,no Relief sent to them, nor so much asany satisfactory Enquiry made afterthem, whether they were dead or alive,’till about three Years after this, whenChesepeak Bay, in Virginia was fettled,which hitherto had never been seen byany Englifh-man. So strong was theDesire, of Richus, and so eager the Pur-uit or a rich Trade, that all ConcernOf ^be Lives of their Fellow Christians,hundred, Neighbours and Country-menweighed nothing in the Comparison;tho’ an Enquiry might have been easilymade, when they were so near them.
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St. John’*unfortunateVoyage.
His Depar-ture and,firstMisfortune.
Captain St. John’* intended VoyageGuiana, and unfortunate End.
I gave an Account, in the foregoingChapter, of the unfortunate Issue ofCaptain Charles Leigh's Attempt to settlea Colony at Guiana. The Relation I amnow going to give is much more melan-choly, in all it’s Circumstances.
Si r Olave Leigh resolving to supporthis Brother in the Establishment of hisColony at Guiana , before he had anyAccount of his Success, fitted out ano-ther Ship, called the Olive-Bloffbm, com-manded by Captain Catalin and CaptainSt. John, to carry him a fresh Supplyof Men and Necessaries.
This Ship set out from PVoohvich forWiapoco , the fourteenth of April, ofthis Year; But what between contraryWinds and Currents, and more by theUnskilfulness of the Master, Mr. Ri-chard Chambers, they were put so farto the Leeward, that they despaired ofever recovering their intended Port, inany due Time ; And, therefore, theyput in first at Barbadoes, and afterwardsat the Island of St. Lucia, designing fromthence to return to England again. How-ever, upon examining their Stores ofProvisions, and finding not near enoughto serve so large a Company as theywere, for so long a Voyage, CaptainSt. John himself, with several of the
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Passengers, to the Number of sixty-fe- 1605.
ven, resolved rather to stay, and take The Captaintheir Lot upon that liland, than to runthe Hazard of being starved at Sea . f ons f e t onHere, therefore, they were set onShoar, Shoar.on the twenty-third of August, withtheir' Swords, Muskets, Powder, onesmall Piece of Ordnance, and one Bar-rel of Biscuit for Food, which was allthe others would allow them; Beingdiscontented, that they had forciblykept their Boat from them, for theirUse.
They soon made an Acquaintancewith the Indians, who furnished them, mer ce within Exchange for Trifles, with Roots, the Indians^,Fruits and some Fowls too, as Hens,
Gulls, Pelicans, Woodcocks and Snipes;
And they every Night had an Opportu-nity, with very little Trouble, of tak-ing delicate Tortoises, upon the Sands;
So that they were in no Want of Food.
They lived five or six Weeks, in littleHuts or Houses which they had built,without making any Excursions into theCountry, or any Journy towards theDiscovery of it. But the Captain, seingone Day certain Plates of Metal uponthe Arms of some of the Indians, andbeing informed by one Browti, a Refi-ner, who was in their Company, thatthey were three Parts Gold, enquiredof the Indians from whence they had it,and they. pointed to a very high Moun-tain, in the North-West Part of the I-lland.
Upon this, the Captain himself, withseveral of the Chief of his Men (as manyas would fill his Boat) went in Quest ofthis Golden Mountain, the Rest beingappointed to keep good Guard at home,in the mean While, and assured theywould return in a Weeks Time.
When this Part of the Company wasgone, the others expected the Indianswould have come and brought themProvisions, as they used to do; Butthey heard nothing of them for threeDays together. They had, it seems,observed when the Captain went, andhad followed him to so good (or rather Captain St.ill) Purpose, that they cut him off with FKa, andhis whole Company. They were no killed.intent upon making the fame Riddanceof their Companions, and, to this End,had got one Augramert, a desperateSavage, and Captain of the Island of St.
Vincent, to head them in this Enter-prize. To cover their Design, how-ever, they carried it fair to them, andvisited them frequently, ’till, one Day,
5 ^ Augramert