. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . colonies in America would be a great bridleto the Indies of the Kinge of Spaine, and began to tryso to put a byt in the anchent enymys mouth. WroteRichard Hakluyt {Western Planting, 1584 ) : If youtouch him [Spain] in the Indies, you touch him in the appleof his eye. For, take away his treasure — which he hasalmost wholly out of his West Indies — his olde bandes ofsouldiers will soon be dissolved, his pride abated, and histyranie utterly suppressed. But to found a colony in those days was harder thanwe can well comprehend. The m
. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . colonies in America would be a great bridleto the Indies of the Kinge of Spaine, and began to tryso to put a byt in the anchent enymys mouth. WroteRichard Hakluyt {Western Planting, 1584 ) : If youtouch him [Spain] in the Indies, you touch him in the appleof his eye. For, take away his treasure — which he hasalmost wholly out of his West Indies — his olde bandes ofsouldiers will soon be dissolved, his pride abated, and histyranie utterly suppressed. But to found a colony in those days was harder thanwe can well comprehend. The mere outlay of money wasenormous for that time. Ships had little storage room; so 14 MOTIVES OF THE ENGLISH PROMOTERS 15 freights were high, and the best accommodations werepoorer than modern steerage. To carry a man from Eng-land to America cost from £10 to £12, or about The dif-$300 in our values (since money in 1600 was worth ficuitiesfive times as much as now). To provide his outfit and tosupport him until he could raise a crop, cost as much Queen Elizabeth Knighting Drake, on board the Golden Hind on his returnfrom raiding Spanish America in his voyage around the globe (1581). Froma contemporary drawing by Sir John Gilbert. Thus to establish a family in America took some thousandsof dollars. Moreover, there were no ships ready for the business,and no supplies. The directors of the early colonizingmovements met all sorts of costly delays and had to buy ships, or build them; and, in Channingsapt phrase, they had to buy food for the voyages on thehoof or in the shock, and clothing on the sheeps had also to provide government, medicines, fortifica-tions, military supplies, and food to meet a possible crop 16 EARLY ENGLISH COLONIZATION failure. Much money, too, was sure to be lost in experi-menting with unfit industries under untried conditions —as in the futile attempts to produce silk and make glass inVirginia. The English crown founded
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