444 James I, Naval Expeditions, &c, of the Englilh, Book IP

CHAP. XIV.

Sundry other Naval Expeditions and Transactions of the English, with some otherOccurrences, of the Tears, 1616. and 1617.

A Voyage of eight Ships to New Eng-land.

1 616. 'Totwithstanding Captain

P*Lp S sfi Smith had been so unfortunateSmithy Gen. the foregoing Year, forhisPer-

Hifi.ofYix- son; Yet his Success in 1613.

gmia,j 5 . 228 . and that of others in 1614. and 1615.

had raised such a Spirit of Expectationof great Things from this Trade, that,this Year, eight Ships were fitted outfor it from London and Plymouth, four foreach. I find nothing remarkable relat-ed of this Voyage ; But that they load-ed their Ships there, with Fish andTrain-Oil, which they fold at good Rates, inSpain, and the Canary-Iflands.

Greenlan n-Trade.

Purchas,Vol. IIl.p.467.

This and the following Year, theShips belonging to the Mufcovy-Compa-ny were successful in Greenland, and notonly made more Oyl than they couldbring away, but kept the Hollandersunder, that they only skulk’d about inprivate Places, and fished with a fewShips, out of their Reach. They like-wise made some new Discoveries to theEast of Greenland.

Virginia Affairs.

Smith’* Ge-neral His.

Virginia.p. 119.

Hift. of Vir-ginia, p. 2 6.

7 he Virgi-nian PrincessPocahontas

comes to En-gland.

A IDefign ofthe Spani-ards uponVirginia,

I concluded my last Account ofour Virginia- Affairs, with the Conclusi-on of a Peace between the English andthe Indian King Powhatan, upon theMarriage of his Daughter Pocahontas,with Mr. Pols, an English Gentle-man.

SiKThomas Dale returning, this Year,to England, took with him Mr. Pols,and his Wife Pocahontas, who, uponthe Marriage, was christened and cal-led Rebecka.

Some Time before Sir Thomas's De-parture, it seems, the Spaniards hadformed a Design upon this Colony. AShip of that Nations beating about, be-

fore Cape Gomfort, sent, at last, a Boat 1 1on Shoar, desiring a Pilot; And one be-ing sent them, he was no sooner in theirBoat, than they carried him off, leav- p ru st ra td'ing three of their Companions behindthem. This causing some Distrust, theseMen were strictly examined. All theywould at first own was, that having losttheir Admiral, Accident had forcedthem into those Parts, and that two ofthem were Captains, and in chief Au-thority, in the Fleet. It appeared, atLength, that one of them was an Eng-lishman, who had been Pilot to the Spa-nish Armada, in 1688. and had nowinduced some Male contents in Virginia,to joyn in Confederacy with him, to car-ry off a small Bark. The Plot beingdiscovered they were apprehended, and Some tread'some executed. Our English-Spaniard, erousEtyffexpecting the same Fate, confessed that punished .two or three Spanish Ships were at Sea,purposely to discover the State of theColony ; But their Commission was notto be opened, ’till they arrived in theBay, so that he could not tell where-in it particularly consisted. One of theSpaniards died, and the other was sentto England ; But the Englishman was re-prieved, ’till Sir Thomas Dale (for whatparticular Reason is not mentioned)hanged him, at Sea, in his Voyagehomewards.

Captain Smith no sooner heard ofPocahontas 's Arrival in England, thanhe was thoughtful to shew his Gratitudefor the many Obligations he had to her,and he believed he could not do it moreeffectually than by making Interest toget her recommended to the Queen’sFavour. This succeeded, for having,in a Petition to Her Majesty, set forthher good Qualities, and the Obligationsthe English Nation in General, and he,in Particular, had to her, she had manyHonours shewn her, by the Queen. ,

She was introduced by the Lady ThePri* c fDelaware, and was frequently admitted Pocah ,° n !}/‘<’to Her Majesty’s Presence. She was L’K?--'publickly entertained as a Prince’sDaughter, and was carried to Plays,

Balls,