Hakluytus posthumus, or Purchas his pilgrimes : contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . agazinesand fertilitie ; subversions here, and selfe-eversions there(perversnesse I mention not) rather then conversions ofSavages after so many learned and holy Divines sentthither; povertie, sicknesse, deaths, in so rich a Soyle,and healthfull a Climate; what should I say ? I candeplore, I doe not much admire, that we have had somuch in Virginia, and have so little; the promises asprobable as large, and yet the premisses yeelding in theconclusion this
Hakluytus posthumus, or Purchas his pilgrimes : contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . agazinesand fertilitie ; subversions here, and selfe-eversions there(perversnesse I mention not) rather then conversions ofSavages after so many learned and holy Divines sentthither; povertie, sicknesse, deaths, in so rich a Soyle,and healthfull a Climate; what should I say ? I candeplore, I doe not much admire, that we have had somuch in Virginia, and have so little; the promises asprobable as large, and yet the premisses yeelding in theconclusion this Virginian sterilitie, and meagrenesse ratherthen the multiplied issue and thrift of a worthy Matronand Mother of a Family, answerable to her great Inheri-tance there, and Jointer from hence. But what doe I inplaints, where some perhaps will complaine of mycomplayning ? I will expect better from God and hisMajestie, and while my selfe meane-while in the betterthriving of the English Colonie in Bermudas or SummerHands. Chap. XVI. English Voyages to the Summer Hands ; HenryMays shipwracke there 1593. The firstColonie sent 1612. 1593-. r is now time to leave the Continent and Sup. cap. Bermudas, of Sir George Summerscalled Summer Hands. The occasion youhad before related by Master Strachie,and that some of their Company tookeup their abode there. This was not thefirst time that English eyes had seeneFor in the yeere 1593. Henry May those Hands. had beene there; one of Captaine Lancasters Company,which had beene in the East Indies, and in returning had 171 ad. PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES I593- put over to Trinidad, and thence to Puerto Rico andHispaniola for refreshing, where Captaine Lancasterdesired a Frenchman Monsieur de Barbotiere, to givethis Henry May passage home with him. They departedfrom Laguna the last of November, and December theseventeenth were wracked on the North-west part ofBermuda about midnight. The Pilots making themselvesat noone to be twelve leagues to
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