. Young folks library . FIRST VOYAGE TO ROANOAKE By CAPT. ARTHUR .HE 27 day of April!, in theyeere of our redemption 1584, wedeparted the West of England,with two barkes well furnishedwith men and victuals, hauing re-ceiued our last and perfect direc-^p tions by your letters, confirming the^ former instructions, and commandementsdehuered by your selfe at our leauing theriuer of Thames. And I thinke it a matter both vnne-cessary, for the manifest discouerie of the Countrey, asalso for tediousnesse sake, to remember vnto you thediurnall of our course, say ling thither and returning:one
. Young folks library . FIRST VOYAGE TO ROANOAKE By CAPT. ARTHUR .HE 27 day of April!, in theyeere of our redemption 1584, wedeparted the West of England,with two barkes well furnishedwith men and victuals, hauing re-ceiued our last and perfect direc-^p tions by your letters, confirming the^ former instructions, and commandementsdehuered by your selfe at our leauing theriuer of Thames. And I thinke it a matter both vnne-cessary, for the manifest discouerie of the Countrey, asalso for tediousnesse sake, to remember vnto you thediurnall of our course, say ling thither and returning:onely I haue presumed to present vnto you this briefediscourse, by which you may iudge how profitable thisland is hke to succeede, as well to your selfe, (bywhose direction and charge, and by whose seruants thisour discouerie hath beene performed) as also to herHighnesse, and the Common wealth, in which we hopeyour wisedome willbe satisfied, considering that asmuch by vs hath bene brought to light, as by thosesmal meanes, and number of men we had, could anyway haue bene ex
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