Book contents
- Frontmatter
- EDITOR's PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- LETTER FROM THE LORD DELAWARR
- THE FIRST BOOKE
- BOOK THE SECOND
- CAPUT I Of the first discoverie in generall of America, being certain islands belonging to the mayne, by Columbus, anno 1492; of the discoverie of the mayne, or continent to the so-ward, by Vesputius Americus, anno 1497, who gave it to name America; of Cabot his discoverie from Florida norward, for the behoof of King Henry VII, anno 1495
- CAPUT II Of the discovery, more in perticuler, of the country of Wingandecoa and the isle of Roanoak, by Capt. Amadas and Capt. Barlow, for the behoofe of Sir W. Raleigh, who, presenting their travailes therein, and the cart of the coast to her Majestie, baptized the country by the name of Virginia
- CAPUT III Sir Richard Grenvile, generall of the first colonie of one hundred howsehoulders
- CAPUT V The unfaithfulnes of such who were imployed miscarried the colony
- CAPUT VI The success of the good ship called the Concord, set forth by the Earle of Southampton, and commaunded by Capt. Bartholomew Gosnoll, for discovery, upon a right lyne, falling about Sachadehoc
- CAPUT VII Capt. George Weymouth's voyage, upon a right lyne (not seeking the wynde in the accustomed height of the West Indies), and falling with Sachadehoc, and the discovery of that river
- CAPUT VIII A colonie sent out to settle, within the river of Sachadehoc, by the Honourable Sir John Popham, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of England, under the government of Capt. Popham and Capt. Gilbert; of the Spaniards surprising of a ship of Bristoll, sent for the use of the colonie
- CAPUT IX Of some accidents happening in the firste setlement of this northerne colonie
- CAPUT X The death of Capt. Popham; Capt. Gilbert disposeth of himself for England when the companie woud then stay no longer, albeit Capt. Davies returned unto them with a great supply from England
- A DICTIONARIE OF THE INDIAN LANGUAGE
- Index
- Plate section
CAPUT VI - The success of the good ship called the Concord, set forth by the Earle of Southampton, and commaunded by Capt. Bartholomew Gosnoll, for discovery, upon a right lyne, falling about Sachadehoc
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- EDITOR's PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- LETTER FROM THE LORD DELAWARR
- THE FIRST BOOKE
- BOOK THE SECOND
- CAPUT I Of the first discoverie in generall of America, being certain islands belonging to the mayne, by Columbus, anno 1492; of the discoverie of the mayne, or continent to the so-ward, by Vesputius Americus, anno 1497, who gave it to name America; of Cabot his discoverie from Florida norward, for the behoof of King Henry VII, anno 1495
- CAPUT II Of the discovery, more in perticuler, of the country of Wingandecoa and the isle of Roanoak, by Capt. Amadas and Capt. Barlow, for the behoofe of Sir W. Raleigh, who, presenting their travailes therein, and the cart of the coast to her Majestie, baptized the country by the name of Virginia
- CAPUT III Sir Richard Grenvile, generall of the first colonie of one hundred howsehoulders
- CAPUT V The unfaithfulnes of such who were imployed miscarried the colony
- CAPUT VI The success of the good ship called the Concord, set forth by the Earle of Southampton, and commaunded by Capt. Bartholomew Gosnoll, for discovery, upon a right lyne, falling about Sachadehoc
- CAPUT VII Capt. George Weymouth's voyage, upon a right lyne (not seeking the wynde in the accustomed height of the West Indies), and falling with Sachadehoc, and the discovery of that river
- CAPUT VIII A colonie sent out to settle, within the river of Sachadehoc, by the Honourable Sir John Popham, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of England, under the government of Capt. Popham and Capt. Gilbert; of the Spaniards surprising of a ship of Bristoll, sent for the use of the colonie
- CAPUT IX Of some accidents happening in the firste setlement of this northerne colonie
- CAPUT X The death of Capt. Popham; Capt. Gilbert disposeth of himself for England when the companie woud then stay no longer, albeit Capt. Davies returned unto them with a great supply from England
- A DICTIONARIE OF THE INDIAN LANGUAGE
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
The good ship the Concord, as you have heard, setting forth with this about the fourteenth of Maye followinge, making land in 43 degrees of the north latitude, had better successe; for the commaunders therein, intending faithfully the end of their goeing forth, discovered many goodly rivers, islands, and a pleasant contynent, and the Indians in the said height, in bark shallops, with maast and sayle, iron grapples, and kettles of copper, came boldly abourd them, apparelled with wastcoats and breeches, some of black serdge, some of blew cloth, made after the sea fashion, with hose and shooes on their feet: a people tall of stature, broad and grym visaged; their eye browes paynted white; and yt seemed by some wordes and signes which they made, that some barks, or of St. John de Luz, had fished and traded in this place.
But the ship riding here in noe good harborow, and with all the weather doubted, the master stood off againe into the sea southwardly, and soone after found himself imbayed with a mighty headland, where, coming to an anchor within a league of the shoare, Capt.
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- Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia; Expressing the Cosmographie and Comodities of the Country, Together with the Manners and Customes of the PeopleAs Collected by William Strachey, Gent., the First Secretary of the Colony, pp. 155 - 158Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1849