Hakluytus posthumus, or Purchas his pilgrimes : contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . th helpe of such things asthey saved with the Sea-venture, and ofsuch as they found in the Countrey, hadbuilt of Cedar, and rigged fit for theSea, two Vessels, a Ship and a Pinnace,and upon the tenth of May, 1610. departed towardVirginia, leaving onely two men behind them, andcarrying them store of provision for the reliefe of thepeople there. Upon the foure and twentieth of May,they arrived safely there, and shortly after some ofthem returned to the So
Hakluytus posthumus, or Purchas his pilgrimes : contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . th helpe of such things asthey saved with the Sea-venture, and ofsuch as they found in the Countrey, hadbuilt of Cedar, and rigged fit for theSea, two Vessels, a Ship and a Pinnace,and upon the tenth of May, 1610. departed towardVirginia, leaving onely two men behind them, andcarrying them store of provision for the reliefe of thepeople there. Upon the foure and twentieth of May,they arrived safely there, and shortly after some ofthem returned to the Sommer Hands againe for afurther supply, in the same Ship which they hadformerly built there; where Sir George Sommers dying,his men did not according to his last charge givenunto them, returne to Virginia; but framed their coursefor England, leaving behind them three men, thatstaied voluntarily, who shortly after found in Sommer-set Hand, which is a part of Sandys Tribe, a veriegreat treasure in Ambergreece, to the valew of nine or thousand pound sterling: there hath also been foundsince divers times of the best sort. i79. l6lO. vaine athing is man,whose best witsand industryare triumphedover by sillyRats? GreatGod, give usgrace to fearethee, that wemay fearenothing else:else shall wefeare withPharao, Frogs,Lice, Flies,Gras hopper;or with others,Fleas, Spar-rowes, & a fewRats, in despiteof Gats, Dogs,Traps, poisons,shall starve us. PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES This new discovery of the Sommer Hands, being thusmade knowne in England, to the Virginian Company,by these men which returned, they sold it to somehundred and twentie persons of the same Company,who obtained a Charter from his Majestie, and so holdit. And toward the latter end of Aprill, 1612. sentthither a Ship, called the Plough, with some sixtiepersons to inhabite, appointing Governour one MasterRichard Moore, a man ingenuous and carefull, who sincedyed in Sir Walter Rawlyes last voyag
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