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A12471	The true travels, adventures, and observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in Europe, Asia, Affrica, and America, from anno Domini 1593. to 1629 His accidents and sea-fights in the straights; his service and stratagems of warre in Hungaria, Transilvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia, against the Turks, and Tartars ... After how he was taken prisoner by the Turks, sold for a slave ... and escaped ... Together with a continuation of his generall History of Virginia, Summer-Iles, New England, and their proceedings, since 1624. to this present 1629; as also of the new plantations of the great river of the Amazons, the iles of St. Christopher, Mevis, and Barbados in the West Indies. All written by actuall authours, whose names you shall finde along the history.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1630 (1630)	STC 22796; ESTC S111906	69,204	79

he got thirty Indians men women and children of the Arawacos enemies both to the Caribes and the Spaniards The I le is most like a triangle each side forty or fifty miles square some exceeding great rocks but the most part exceeding good ground abounding with an infinite number of Swine some Turtles and many sorts of excellent fish many great ponds wherein is Ducke and Mallard excellent clay for pots wood and stone for building and a spring neere the middest of the I le of Bitume which is a liquid mixture like Tarre that by the great raines falls from the tops of the mountaines it floats upon the water in such abundance that drying up it remaines like great rocks of pitch and as good as pitch for any use The Mancinell apple is of a most pleasant sweet smell of the bignesse of a Crab but ranke poyson yet the Swine and Birds have wit to shun it great store of exceeding great Locus trees two or three fadome about of a great height that beareth a cod full of meale will m●ke bread in time of necessity A tree like a Pine beareth a fruit so great as a Muske Melon which hath alwayes ripe fruit flowers or greene fruit which will refresh two or three men and very comfortable Plumb trees many the fruit great and yellow which but strained into water in foure and twenty houres will be very good drinke wilde figge trees there are many all those fruits doe fat the hogges yet at some times of the yeare they are so leane as carrion Gwane trees beare a fruit so bigge as a Peare good and wholsome Palmetaes of three severall f●rrs Papawes Prickle Peares good to eat or make drinke Cedar trees very tall and great Fusticke trees are very great and the wood yellow good for dying sope berries the kernell so bigge as a sloe and good to eat Pumpeons in abundance Goads so great as will make good great bottles and cut in two peeces good dishes and platters many small brooks of very good water Ginni wheat Cassado Pines and Plantaines all things we there plant doe grow exceedingly so well as Tobacco the corne pease and beanes cut but away the stalke young sprigs will grow and so beare fruit for many yeares together without any more planting the I le is overgrowne with wod or great reeds those wods w●ich are soft are exceeding light and full of pitch and those that are hard are so hard and great they are as hard to cut as stone Master Iohn Powell came thither the fourth of August 1627. with forty five men where we stayed three weeks and then returning left behind us about an hundred people and his sonne Iohn Powell for his Deputy as Governour but there have beene so many factions amongst them I cannot from so many variable relations give you any certainty for their orderly Government for all those plenties much misery they have endured in regard of their weaknesse at their landing and long st●y without supplies therefore those that goe thither it were good they carry good provision with them but the I le is most healthfull and all things planted doe increase abundantly and by this time there is and now a going about the number of fifteene or sixteene hundred people Sir William Curtine and Captaine Iohn Powell were the first and chiefe adventurers to the planting this fortunate I le which had beene oft frequented by men of Warre to refresh themselves and set up their shallops being so farre remote from the rest of the Iles they never were troubled with any of the Indies Harbours they have none but exceeding good Rodes which with a small charge might bee very well fortified it doth ebbe and flow foure or five foot and they cannot perceive there hath ever beene any Hericano in that I le From the relations of Captaine Iohn White and Captaine Wolverstone CHAP. XXVII The first plantation of the I le of Mevis BEcause I have ranged and lived amongst those Ilands what my authours cannot tell me I thinke it no great errour in helping them to tell it my selfe In this little I le of Mevis more than twenty yeares agoe I have remained a good time together to wod and water and refresh my men it is all woddy but by the Sea side Southward there are sands like downes where a thousand men may quarter themselves conveniently but in most places the wod groweth close to the water side at a high water marke and in some places so thicke of a soft spungy wood like a wilde figge tree you cannot get through it but by m●king your w●y with hatchets or fauchions whether it was the dew of those trees or of some others I am not certaine but many of our men became so to●mented with a burning sw●lling all over their bodies they seemed like se●ld●d men and neere mad with paine here we found a great Poole wherein bathing themselves they found much ease and fi●ding it fed with a pleasant small streame that came out of the woods we found the head halfe a m●le within the land distilling from a many of rocks by which they were well cured in two or three dayes Such factions here we had as commonly attend such voyages that a paire of gallowes was m●de but Captaine Smith for whom they were intended could not be perswaded to use them but not any one of the inventers but their lives by iustice fell into his power to determine of at his pleasure whom with much mercy he favoured that most basely and u●justly would have betrayed him The last yeare 1628. Master Littleton with some others got a Pattent of the Earle of Carlile to plant the I le called the Barbados thirty leagues Northward of Saint Christophers which by report of their informers and undertakers for the excellencie and pleasantnesse thereof they called Dulcina but when they came there they found it such a ba●ren rocke they left it although they were told as much before they would not beleeve it perswading themselves those contradicters would get it for themselves was thus by their cunning opinion the deceiver of themselves for seeing it lie conveniently for their purpose in a map they had not patience to know the goodnesse or badnesse the inconvenience nor probabilities of the quality nor quantity which errour doth predominate in most of our home-bred adventurers that will have all things as they conceit and would have it and the more they are contradicted the more hot they are but you may see by many examples in the generall history how difficult a matter it is to gather the t●uth from amongst so many forren and severall relations except you have exceeding good experience both of the Countries people and their conditions and those ignorant undertakings have beene the great●st hind●rance of all those plantations At last because they would be absolute they came to Mevis a little I le by Saint Christophers where they seated themselv●s well

thy Selfe a Souldier true in all parts Thy Armes are deckt with that thy Sword hath wonne Which mallice can't out-weare till day be done For three proud Turks in single fight thou 'st slue Their Heads adorne thy Armes for witnesse true Let Mars and Neptune both with Pregnant wit Extoll thy due deserts He pray for it SALO TANNER THE TRVE TRAVELS ADVENTVRES AND OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAINE IOHN SMITH in Europe Asia Africke and America beginning about the yeere 1593. and continued to this present 1629. CHAP. I. His Birth Apprentiship Going into France His beginning with ten shillings and three pence His Service in Netherlands His bad passage into Scotland His returne to Willoughby And how he lived in the Woods HE was borne in Willoughby in Lincolne-shire and a Scholler in the two Free-schooles of Alford and Louth His father anciently descended from the ancient Smiths of Crudley in Lancashire his mother from the Rickands at great Heck in York-shire His parents dying when he was about thirteene yeeres of age left him a competent meanes which hee not being capable to manage little regarded his minde being even then set upon brave adventures sould his Satchell bookes and all he had intending secretly to get to Sea but that his fathers death stayed him But now the ●uardians of his estate more regarding it than him he had libertie enough though no meanes to get beyond the Sea About the age of fifteene yeares hee was bound an Apprentice to Mr. Thomas Sendall of Linne the greatest Merchant of all those parts but because hee would not presently send him to Sea he never saw his master in eight yeeres after At last he ●ound meanes to attend Mr. Perigrine Barty into France second sonne to the Right Honourable Perigrine that generous Lord Willoughby and famous Souldier where comming to his brother Robert then at Orleans now Earle of Linsey and Lord great Chamberlaine of England being then but little youths under Tuto●age his service being needlesse within a moneth or six weekes they sent him backe againe to his friends who when he came from London they liberally gave him but out of his owne estate ten shillings to be rid of him such oft is the share of fatherlesse children but those two Honourable Brethren gave him sufficient to returne for England But it was the least thought of his determination for now being freely at libertie in Paris growing acquainted with one Master David Hume who making some use of his purse gave him Letters to his friends in Scotland to preferre him to King Iames. Arriving at Roane he better bethinkes himselfe seeing his money neere spent downe the River he went to Haver de grace where he first began to learne the life of a souldier Peace being concluded in France he went with Captaine Ioseph Duxbury into the Low-countries under whose Colours having served three or foure yeeres he tooke his journey for Scotland to deliver his Letters At Ancusan he imbarked himselfe for Lethe but as much danger as shipwracke and sicknesse could endure hee had at the holy I le in Northumberland neere Barwicke being recovered into Scotland he went to deliver his Letters After much kinde usage amongst those honest Scots at Ripweth and Broxmoth but neither money nor meanes to make him a Courtier he returned to Willoughby in Lincolne-shire where within a short time being glutted with too much company wherein he took small delight he retired himselfe into a little wooddie pasture a good way from any towne invironed with many hundred Acres of other woods Here by a faire brook he built a Pavillion of boughes where only in his cloaths he lay His studie was Machiavills Art of warre and Marcus Aurelius his exercise a good horse with his lance and Ring his food was thought to be more of venison than any thing else what he wanted his man brought him The countrey wondering at such an Hermite His friends perswaded one Seignior Theadora Polaloga Rider to Henry Earle of Lincolne an excellent Horse-man and a noble Italian Gentleman to insinuate into his wooddish acquaintances whose Languages and good discourse and exercise of riding drew him to stay with him at Tattersall Long these pleasures could not content him but hee returned againe to the Low-Countreyes Chap II. The notable villany of foure French Gallants and his revenge Smith throwne over-board Captaine La Roche of Saint Malo releeves him THus when France and Netherlands had taught him to ride a Horse and use his Armes with such rudiments of warre as his tender yeeres in those martiall Schooles could attaine unto he was desirous to see more of the world and trie his fortune against the Turkes both lamenting and repenting to have seene so many Christians slaughter one another Opportunitie casting him into the company of foure French Gallants well attended faining to him the one to be a great Lord the rest his Gentlemen and that they were all devoted that way over-perswaded him to goe with them into France to the Dutchesse of Mercury from whom they should not only have meanes but also Letters of favour to her noble Duke then Generall for the Emperour Rodolphus in Hungary which he did with such ill weather as winter affordeth in the darke night they arrived in the broad shallow In-let of Saint Va●leries sur Some in Picardie his French Lord knowing he had good apparell and better furnished with money than themselves so plotted with the Master of the ship to set his and their owne trunckes a shore leaving Smith aboard till the boat could returne which was the next day after towards evening the reason hee alleaged was the sea went so high hee could come no sooner and that his Lord was gone to Amiens where they would stay his comming which treacherous villany when divers other souldiers and passengers understood they had like to have slaine the Master and had they knowne how would have runne away with the ship Comming on shore hee had but one Carralue was forced to sell his cloake to pay for his passage One of the souldiers called Curzianvere compassionating his injury assured him this great Lord Depreau was only the sonne of a Lawyer of Mortaigne in base Britany and his Attendants Cursell La Nelie and Monferrat three young citizens as arrant cheats as himselfe but if he would accompany him he would bring him to their friends but in the interim supplied his wants thus travelling by Deepe Codebeck Humphla Pount-demer in Normandie they came to Cane in base Normandie where both this noble Curzianvere and the great Prior of the great Abbey of S. Steven where is the ruinous Tombe of William the Conquerour and many other of his friends kindly welcomed him and brought him to Mortaigne where hee found Depreau and the rest but to small purpose for Mr. Curzianvere was a banished man and durst not be seene but to his friends yet the bruit of their cosenage occasioned the Lady Collumber the Baron Larshan the Lord Shasghe

Sander Screwe Panassa Musa Lastilla to Varna an ancient Citie upon the Blacke Sea In all which journey having little more libertie than his eyes judgement since his captivitie he might see the Townes with their short Towers and a most plaine fertile and delicate Countrey especially that most admired place of Greece now called Romania but from Varna nothing but the Blacke Sea water 〈◊〉 he came to the two Capes of Taur and Pergilos where hee passed the Straight of Niger which as he conjectured is some ten leagues long and three broad betwixt two low lands the Channell is deepe but at the entrance of the Sea Dissabacca their are many great Osie-shou●ds and many great blacke ro●kes which the Turkes said were trees weeds and mud throwen from the in-land Countryes by the inundations and violence of the Current and cast there by the Eddy They sayled by many low Iles and saw many more of those muddy ro●kes and nothing else but salt water till they came betwixt Susax and Curuske only two white townes at the entrance of the river Bruapo appeared In six or seven dayes saile he saw foure or five seeming strong castles of stone with flat tops and battlements about them but arriving at Cambia he was according to their custome well used The river was there more than halfe a mile broad The Castle was of a large circumference foure●●ene or fifteene foot thicke in the foundation some six foot from the wall is a Paliizado and then a Ditch of about fortie foot broad full of water On the west side of it is a Towne all of low flat houses which as be conceived could bee of no great strength yet it keepes all them barbarous Countreyes about it in admiration and subjection After he had stayed there three dayes it was two dayes more before his guides brought him to Nalbrits where the Tymor then was resident in a great vast stonie Castle with many great Courts about it invironed with high stone wals where was quartered their Armes when they first subjected those Countreyes which only live to labour for those tyrannicall Turkes To her unkinde brother this kinde Ladie writ so much for his good usage that hee halfe suspected as much as she intended for shee told him he should there but sojourne to learne the language and what it was to be a Turke till time made her Master of her selfe But the Tymor her brother diverted all this to the worst of crueltie for within an hour● after his arrivall he caused his Drub-man to strip him naked and shave his head and beard so bare as his hand a great ring of iron with a long stalke bowed like a sickle rivetted about his necke and a coat made of Vlgries haire guarded about with a peece of an undrest skinne There were many more Christian slaves and neere an hundred Forsados of Turkes and Moores and he being the last was slave of slaves to them all Among these slavish fortunes there was no great choice for the best was so bad a dog could hardly have lived to endure and yet for all their paines and labours no more regarded than a beast CHAP. XIII The Turkes diet the Slaves diet the attire of the Tartars and manner of Warres and Religions c. THe Tymor and his friends fed upon Pillaw which is boiled Rice and Garnances with little bits of mutton or Buckones which is rosted peeces of Horse Bull Vlgrie or any beasts Samboyses and Muselbit are great dainties and yet but round pies full of all sorts of flesh they can get chopped with varietie of herbs Their best drinke is Coffa of a graine they call Coava boiled with water and Sherbecke which is only honey and water M●res milke or the milke of any beast they hold restorative but all the Comminaltie drinke pure water Their bread is made of this Coava which is a kinde of blacke whea● and Cuskus a small white seed like Millya in Biskay but our common victuall the entrailes of Horse and Vlgries of this cut in small peeces they will fill a great Cauldron and being boiled with Cuskus and put in great bowles in the forme of chaffing-dishes they sit round about it on the ground after they haue raked it thorow so oft as they please with their soule fists the remainder was for the Christian slaves Some of this broth they would temper with Cuskus pounded and putting the fire off from the hearth powre there a bowle full then cover it with co●les till it be baked which stewed with the remainder of the broth and some small peeces of flesh was an extraordinarie daintie The better sort are attired like Turkes but the plaine Tartar hath a blacke sheepe skinne over his backe and two of the legs tied about his necke the other two about his middle with another over his belly and the legs tied in the like manner behinde him then two more made like a paire of b●ses serveth him for breeches with a little close cap to his skull of blacke felt and they use exceeding much of this felt for carpets for bedding for Coats and Idols Their houses are much worse than your Irish but the In-land Countreyes have none but Carts and Tents which they ever remove from Countrey to Countrey as they see occasion driving with them infinite troopes of blacke sheepe Cattell and Vlgries eating all vp before them as they goe For the Tartars of Nagi they have neither Towne nor house corne nor drinke but flesh and milke The milke they keepe in great skinnes like Burracho's which though it be never so sower it agreeth well with their strong stomackes They live all in Hordias as doth the Crim-Tartars three or foure hundred in a company in great Carts fifteene or sixteene foot broad which is covered with small rods wattled together in the forme of a birds nest turned vpwards and with the ashes of bones tempered with oile Camels haire and a clay they have they lome them so well that no weather will pierce them and yet verie light Each Hordia hath a Murse which they obey as their King Their Gods are infinite One or two thousand of those glittering white Carts drawen with Camels Deere Buls and Vlgries they bring round in a ring where they pitch their Campe and the Murse with his chiefe alliances are placed in the midst They doe much hurt when they can get any Stroggs which are great boats used upon the river Volga which they call Edle to them that dwell in the Countrey of Perolog and would doe much more were it not for the Muscovites Garrisons that there inhabit CHAP. XIIII The description of the Crym-Tartars their houses and carts their Idolatry in their lodgings NOw you are to understand Tartary and Scythia are all one but so large and spacious few or none could ever perfectly describe it nor all the severall kinds of those most barbarous people that inhabit it Those we call the Crym-Tartars border

upon Moldavia Podolia Lituania and Russia are much more regular than the interior parts of Scythia This great Tartarian Prince that hath so troubled all his neighbours they alwayes call Chan which signifieth Emperour but we the Crym-Tartar He liveth for most part in the best champion plaines of many Provinces and his removing Court is like a great Citie of houses and tents drawne on Carts all so orderly placed East and West on the right and left hand of the Prince his house which is alwayes in the midst towards the South before which none may pitch their houses every one knowing their order and quarter as in an Armie The Princes houses are very artificially wrought both the foundation sides and roofe of wickers ascending round to the top like a Dove-coat this they cover with white felt or white earth tempered with the powder of bones that it may shine the whiter sometimes with blacke felt curiously painted with vines trees birds and beasts the breadth of the Carts are eighteene or twenty foot but the house stretcheth foure or five foot over each side and is drawne with ten or twelve or for more state twenty Camels and Oxen. They have also great baskets made of smaller wickers like great chests with a covering or the same all covered over with blacke felt rubbed over with tallow and sheeps milke to keepe out the raine prettily bedecked with painting or feathers in those they put their houshold stuffe and treasure drawne upon other carts for that purpose When they take downe their houses they set the doore alwayes towards the South and their carts thirtie or fortie foot distant on each side East and West as if they were two walls the women also have most curious carts every one of his wives hath a great one for herselfe and so many other for her attendants that they seeme as many Courts as he hath wives One great Tartar or Nobleman will have for his particular more than an hundred of those houses and carts for his severall offices and uses but set so farre from each other they will seeme like a great village Having taken their houses from the carts they place the Master alwayes towards the North over whose head is alwayes an Image like a Puppet made of felt which they call his brother the women on his left hand and over the chiefe Mistris her head such another brother and betweene them a little one which is the keeper of the house at the good wives beds-feet is a kids skinne stuffed with wooll and neere it a Puppet looking towards the Maids next the doore another with a dried cowes udder for the women that milke the kine because only the men milke mares every morning those Images in their orders they besprinkle with that they drinke bee it Cossmos or whatsoever but all the white mares milke is reserved for the Prince Then without the doore thrice to the South every one bowing his knee in honour of the fire then the like to the East in honour of the aire then to the West in honour of the water and lastly to the North in behalfe of the dead After the servant hath done this duty to the foure quarters of the world he returnes into the house where his fellowes stand waiting ready with two cups and two basons to give their master and his wife that lay with him 〈◊〉 night to wash and drinke who must keepe him company all the day following and all his other wives come thither to drinke where hee keepes his house that day and all the gifts presented him till night are laid vp in her chests and at the doore a bench full of cups and drinke for any of them to make merry Chap. XV. Their feasts common diet Princes estate buildings tributes lawes slaves entertainment of Ambassadours FOr their feasts they have all sorts of beasts birds fish fruits and hearbs they can get but the more variety of wilde ones is the best to which they have excellent drinke made of rice millit and honey like wine they have also wine but in Summer they drinke most Cossmos that standeth ready alwayes at the entrance of the doore and by it a fidler when the master of the house beginneth to drinke they all cry ha ha and the fidler playes then they all clap their hands and dance the men before their Masters the women before their Mistresses and ever when he drinks they cry as before then the fidler stayeth till they drinke all round sometimes they will drinke for the victory and to provoke one to drinke they will pull him by the ears and lugge and draw him to stretch and heat him clapping their hands stamping with their feet and dancing before the champions offering them cups then draw them backe againe to increase their appetite and thus continue till they be drunke or their drinke done which they hold an honour and no infirmity Though the ground be fertile they sow little corne yet the Gentlemen have bread and hony-wine grapes they have plenty and wine privately and good flesh fish but the common sort stamped millit mingled with milke and water They call Cassa for meat and drinke any thing also any beast unprofitable for service they kill when they are like to die or however they die they will eat them guts liver and all but the most fleshy parts they cut in thinne slices and hang it up in the Sunne and wind wihout salting where it will drie so hard it will not putrifie in a long time A Ramme they esteeme a great feast among forty or fiftie which they cut in peeces boiled or roast puts it in a great bowle with salt and water for other sauce they have none the master of the feast giveth every one a peece which he eateth by himselfe or carrieth away with him Thus their hard fare makes them so infinite in Cattell and their great number of captived women to breed vpon makes them so populous But neere the Christian frontiers the baser sort make little cottages of wood called Vlusi daubed over with durt and beasts dung covered with sedge yet in Summer they leave them beginning their progresse in Aprill with their wives children and slaves in their carted houses scarce convenient for foure or five persons driving their flocks towards Perecopya and sometimes into Taurica or Osow a towne upon the river Tanais which is great and swift where the Turke hath a garrison and in October returne againe to their Cottages Their Clothes are the skinnes of dogges goats and sheepe lined with cotten cloath made of their finest wooll for of their worst they make their felt which they use in aboundance as well for shooes and caps as houses beds and Idolls also of the coarse wooll mingled with horse haire they make all their cordage Notwithstanding this wandring life their Princes sit in great state upon beds or carpits and with great reverence are attended both by

warre and Captaine Merham with Smith MErham a captaine of a man of war then in the Road invited captaine Smith and two or three more of them aboord with him where he spared not any thing he had to expresse his kindnesse to bid them welcome till it was too late to goe on shore so that necessitie constrained them to stay aboord a fairer Evening could not bee yet ere midnight such a storme did arise they were forced to let slip Cable and Anchor and put to Sea spooning before the wind till they were driven to the Canaries in the calmes they accommodated themselves hoping this strange accident might yet produce some good event not long it was before they tooke a small Barke comming from Teneryf loaded with Wine three or foure more they chased two they tooke but found little in them save a few passengers that told them of five Dutch men of warre about the Isles so that they stood for Boyadora upon the Affrican shore betwixt which and Cape Noa they descried to saile Merham intending to know what they were hailed them very civilly they dansed their topsailes and desired the man of warre to come aboord them and take what he would for they were buttwo poore distressed Bi●kiners But Merham the old fox seeing himselfe in the lions pawes sprung his loufe the other tacked after him and came close up to his nether quarter gave his broad side and so loufed up to windward the Vice-Admirall did the like and at the next bout the Admirall with a noise of Trumpets and all his Ordnance murtherers and muskets boorded him on his broad side the other in like manner on his ley quarter that it was so darke there was little light but fire and smoake long he stayed not before he fell off leaving 4. or 5. of his men sprawling over the grating after they had battered Merham about an houre they boorded him againe as before and threw foure kedgers or grapnalls in iron chaines then shearing off they thought so to have torne downe the grating but the Admiralls yard was so intangled in their shrouds Merham had time to discharge two crosse barre shot amongst them and divers bolts of iron made for that purpose against his bow that made such a breach he feared they both should have sunke for company so that the Spaniard was as yare in slipping his chained Grapnalls as Merham was in cutting the tackling kept fast their yards in his shrouds the Vice-admirall presently cleared himselfe but spared neither his Ordnance nor Muskets to keepe Merham from getting away till the Admirall had repaired his leake from twelve at noone till six at night they thus interchanged one volly for another then the Vice-admirall fell on starne staying for the Admirall that came up againe to him and all that night stood after Merham that shaped his course for Mamora but such small way they made the next morning they were not three leagues off from Cape Noa The two Spanish men of warre for so they were and well appointed taking it in scorne as it seemed with their chase broad side and starne the one after the other within Musket shot plying their ordnance and after an houres worke commanded Merham a maine for the King of Spaine upon faire quarter Merham dranke to them and so discharged his quarter peeces which pride the Spaniard to revenge boorded him againe and many of them were got to the top to unsling the maine saile which the Master and some others from the round house caused to their cost to come tumbling downe about the round house the Spaniards so pestered that they were forced to the great Cablen and blew it up the smoake and fire was so vehement as they thought the Ship on fire they in the fore castle were no lesse assaulted that blew up a peece of the grating with a great many of Spaniards more then they cleared themselves with all speed and Merham with as much expedition to quench the fire with w●t clothes and water which beganne to grow too fast The Spaniard still playing upon him with all the shot they could the open places presently they covered with old sailes and prepared themselves to fight to the last man The angry Spaniard seeing the fire quenched hung out a flagge of truce to have but a parley but that desperate Merham knew there was but one way with him and would have none but the report of his Ordnance which hee did know well how to use for his best advantage Thus they spent the next after-noone and halfe that night when the Spanyards either lost them or left them Seven and twentie men Merham had slaine and sixteene wounded and could finde they had received 140. great shot A wounded Spanyard they kept alive confessed they had lost 100. men in the Admirall which they did feare would sinke ere she could recover a Port. Thus reaccommodating their sailes they sailed for Sancta Cruse Cape Goa and Magadore ti●l they came againe to Saffee and then he returned into England CHAP. XXI The continuation of the generall Historie of Virginia the Summer Iles and New England with their present estate from 1624. to this present 1629. COncerning these Countreyes I would be sorrie to trouble you with repeating one thing twice as with their Maps Commodities People Government Religion yet knowen the beginning of those plantations their numbers and names with the names of the Adventurers the yeerely proceedings of everie Governour both here and there As for them misprisions neglect grievances and the causes of all those rumours losses and crosses that have happened I referre you to the Generall Historie where you shall finde all this at large especially to those pages where you may read my letter of advice to the Councell and Company what of necessitie must be done or lose all and leave the Countrey pag. 70. what commodities I sent home pag. 163. my opinion and offer to the Company to feed and defend the Colonies pag. 150. my account to them here of my actions there pag. 163. my seven answers to his Majesties Commissioners seven questions what hath hindered Virginia and the remedie pag. 165. How those noble Gentlemen spent neere two yeares in perusing all letters came from thence and the differences betwixt many factions both here and there with their complaints especially about the Sallerie which should have beene a new office in London for the well ordering the sale of Tobacco that 2500. pounds should yearely have beene raised out of it to pay foure or five hundred pounds yearly to the Governor of that Companie two or three hundred to his Deputie the rest into stipends of thirtie or fiftie pounds yearely for their Clerks and under Officers which were never there pag. 153. but not one hundred pounds for all them in Virginia nor any thing for the most part of the Adventurers in England except the undertakers for the Lotteries Setters out of ships Adventurers of commodities also their Factors