The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia: Expressing the Cosmographie and Comodities of the Country, Togither with the Manners and Customes of the People |
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Page 6 - Agricola), who reduced the conquered partes of our barbarous iland into provinces, and established in them colonies of old souldiers; building castells and townes, and in every corner teaching us even to knowe the powerfull discourse of divine reason (which makes us only men, and distinguisheth us from beasts, amongst whome we lived as naked and as beastly as they). We might yet have lyved overgrowen satyrs, rude and untutred, wandring in the woodes, dwelling in caves, and hunting for our dynners,...
Page xiv - ... the pallisadoes he found tourne downe, the portes open, the gates from the hinges, the church ruined and unfrequented, empty howses (whose owners untimely death had taken newly from them) rent up and burnt, the living not hable, as they pretended, to step into the woodes to gather other fire-wood : and it is true, the Indian as fast killing without as the famine and pestilence within.
Page xx - Only let me truly acknowledge they are not an hundred or two of deboisht hands, dropt forth by yeare after yeare, with penury and leysure, ill provided for before they come, and worse governed when they are here, men of such distempered bodies and infected mindes, whome no examples dayly before their eyes, either of goodness or punishment, can deterr from their habitual!
Page 18 - ... at the best, as through which the fervent piercing heat of the sun, which there (it is true) is the first cause creating such sommer fevers amongst them, found never...
Page 17 - ... which are nowe found likewise as frequent in our north parte ; it is a fruitfull countrey, and not much subject to cold ; in this country it was that Sir Walter Raleigh planted his two colonies, in the islande aforesaid, called Roanoack. . . . The sommer here is hot as in Spaine, the winter cold as in Fraunce or England ; the heate of the sommer is in June, July, and August, but comonly the cool breeses asswage the vehemency of the heat ; the chief of winter is half December, January, February,...
Page 2 - We, greatly commending this your godly and laudable purpose in our Lord, and desirous to have the same brought to a due end, and the name of our Saviour to be known in those parts...
Page xxiv - ... in it, as we have it related unto us by the old inhabitants ; and since our owne arrivall, have cause to feare it to be true, who have had 150 at a time much afflicted, and I am perswaded had lost the greatest part of them, if we had not brought these helpes with us. " And so concluding your farther troubles, with this only remembrance, that we have, with...
Page xvii - ... againe, and that night (the wind favourable) re-landed all his men at the Forte ; before which, the 10th of June being Sonday, I brought my shipp, and in the afternoon went ashoare where after a sermon made by Mr Buck, Sir Thomas Gates his preacher, I caused my commission to be read, upon which Sir Thomas Gates delivered up unto me his owne commission, both patents, and the counsell seale : and then I delivered some few wordes unto the Company, laying some blames on them for many vanities and...
Page xiv - ... the colony, gave him to understand] never was there more neede of all the powers of Judgement, and . . . knowing, and long exercised vertue, then now to be awak . . . calling upon him to save such whome he found so fo ... as in redeeming himself and his againe from falling into the . . . ties. For besides that he found the forte unfurnished (and that . . . and many casualties) of so lardge an accompte and number ... as he expected, and knew came alonge the last yeare, trained in ... fleete with...
Page xvii - I had brought for them ; and after, not finding as yet in the towne a convenient house, I repaired aboard againe, where the 12th of June, I did constitute and give places of office and chardge to divers Captaines and gentlemen, and elected unto me a counsaile, unto whome I administred an oath of faith, assistance, and secresy ; their names were these : Sir Thomas Gates, Knight, Lieutenant Gen[eral] Sir George Sumers, Knight, Admiral.