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Speaker 1: A DESCRIPTION OF NEW ENGLAND BY CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH SECTION
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Speaker 1: ZERO TITLE PAGE AND DEDICATIONS A description of New England
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Speaker 1: are the observations and discoveries of Captain John Smith, Admiral
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Speaker 1: of that country in the north of America, in the
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Speaker 1: year of our Lord, 1614, with the success of six
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Speaker 1: ships that went the next year, 1615, and the accidents
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Speaker 1: befell him among the French men of war. with the
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Speaker 1: proof of the present benefit his country affords whether this
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Speaker 1: present year sixteen sixteen eight voluntary ships are gone to
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Speaker 1: make further trial at london printed by humphrey lowndes for
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Speaker 1: robert and are to be sold at his house called
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Speaker 1: the lodge in chancery lane over against lincoln's inn sixteen
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Speaker 1: sixteen TO THE HIGH HOPEFUL CHARLES, PRINCE OF GREAT BRITAIN. SIR,
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Speaker 1: SO FAVORABLE WAS YOUR MOST RENOWNED AND MEMORABLE BROTHER, PRINCE HENRY,
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Speaker 1: TO ALL GENEROUS DESIGNERS, THAT IN MY DISCOVERY OF VIRGINIA
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Speaker 1: I PRESUMED TO CALL TWO NAMELESS HEADLINDS AFTER MY SOVEREIGN HEIRS,
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Speaker 1: KEEP HENRY AND KEEP CHARLES. SINCE THEN, it being my
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Speaker 1: chance to range some other parts of America, whereof I
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Speaker 1: here present your highness the description in a map. My
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Speaker 1: humble suit is, you would please to change their barbarous names,
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Speaker 1: for such English as posterity may say Prince Charles was
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Speaker 1: their godfather. What here nisrelation I promise my country, let
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Speaker 1: me live or die the slave of scorn and infamy, if,
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Speaker 1: having meanness, I make not apparent, please God to bless
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Speaker 1: me but for such accidents as are beyond my power
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Speaker 1: and reason to prevent. For my labours I desire but
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Speaker 1: such conditions as were promised me out to the gains,
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Speaker 1: and that Your Highness would deign to grace this work,
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Speaker 1: by Your princely and favourable respect to into it, and
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Speaker 1: to know me to be Your Highness' true and faithful servant,
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Speaker 1: John Smith. to the right honourable and worthy lords, knights
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Speaker 1: and gentlemen of his majesty's council for all plantations and discoveries,
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Speaker 1: especially of New England. Seeing the deeds of the most
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Speaker 1: just and the writings of the most wise, not only
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Speaker 1: of men, but of God himself, have been diversely produced
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Speaker 1: by variable judgments of the time's opinionists. What shows it's
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Speaker 1: ignorant as I expect? yet reposing myself on your favours
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Speaker 1: i present this rude discourse to the world's construction though
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Speaker 1: i am persuaded that few do think there may be
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Speaker 1: had from new england steepled commodities well worth three or
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Speaker 1: four hundred thousand pounds a year with so small a
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Speaker 1: charge and such facility as this discourse will acquaint you
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Speaker 1: lest your honours, that know me not, should think I
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Speaker 1: go by hearsay or affection. I entreat your pardons to
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Speaker 1: say this much of myself. Near twice nine years I
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Speaker 1: have been taught by lamentable experience, as well in Europe
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Speaker 1: and Asia as Africa and America, such honest adventures as
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Speaker 1: the chance of war doth cast upon poor soldiers. So that,
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Speaker 1: If I not be able to judge of what I
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Speaker 1: have seen, contrived, and done, it is not the fault
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Speaker 1: either of my eyes or of four quarters. And these
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Speaker 1: nine years I have bent my endeavours to find a
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Speaker 1: sure foundation to begin these ensuing projects, which though I
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Speaker 1: never so plainly and seriously propound, yet it resteth in
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Speaker 1: God anew still to dispose of. not doubting but your
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Speaker 1: goodness will pardon my rudeness and ponder errors in the
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Speaker 1: balance of good-will no more but saving all my best
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Speaker 1: abilities to the good of my prince and country and
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Speaker 1: submitting myself to the exquisite judgments of your renowned virtue
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Speaker 1: i ever rest your honours in all honest service j
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Speaker 1: s to the right worshipful adventurers for the country of
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Speaker 1: new england in the cities of London, Bristow, Exeter, Plymouth, Dartmouth, Bastable, Totneys, etc.,
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Speaker 1: and in all other cities and ports in the kingdom
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Speaker 1: of England. If the little ant and the silly bee
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Speaker 1: seek by their diligence the good of their commonwealth, much
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Speaker 1: more ought man. If they punish the drones and sting
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Speaker 1: them stillest their labour, then blame not man. Little honey,
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Speaker 1: hut that hive, where there are more drones than bees.
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Speaker 1: Unmiserable is that land where more are idle than well employed.
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Speaker 1: If the endeavours of those vermin be acceptable, I hope
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Speaker 1: mine may be excusable. Though I confess it were more
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Speaker 1: proper for me to be doing what I say than
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Speaker 1: writing what I know. Had I returned rich, I could
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Speaker 1: not have erred. Now having only such fish as came
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Speaker 1: to my net I must be taxed, but I would
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Speaker 1: my taxes were as ready to adventure their purses as
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Speaker 1: I purse life and all I have, or as diligent
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Speaker 1: to furnish the charge, as I know they are vigilant
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Speaker 1: to crop the fruits of my labours. Then would I
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Speaker 1: not doubt, did God please, I might safely arrive in
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Speaker 1: New England and safely return, but to perform somewhat more
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Speaker 1: than I have promised, and approve my words by deeds,
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Speaker 1: ACCORDING TO PROPORTION. I am not the first hath been
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Speaker 1: betrayed by pirates, and four men of war, provided as
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Speaker 1: they were, had been sufficient to have taken Samson, Hercules,
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Speaker 1: and Alexander the Great. No other way furnished than I was.
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Speaker 1: I know not what assurance any have to pass the seas,
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Speaker 1: not to be subject to casualty as well as myself.
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Speaker 1: but lest this disaster may hinder my proceedings, or ill-will,
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Speaker 1: by rumour, the powerful work I pretend. I have writ
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Speaker 1: this little, which I did think to have concealed from
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Speaker 1: any public use, until I made my return speak as
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Speaker 1: much as my pen now doth. But because I speak
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Speaker 1: so much of fishing, if any take me for such
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Speaker 1: a devout fisher as I dream of naught else, they
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Speaker 1: mistake me. I know a ring of gold from a
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Speaker 1: grain of barley, as well as a goldsmith. For nothing
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Speaker 1: is there to be had which fishing doth hinder, but
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Speaker 1: further us to obtain. Now for that I have made
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Speaker 1: known unto you a fit place for plantation, limited within
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Speaker 1: the bounds of your patent and commission, having also received means, power,
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Speaker 1: and authority by your directions to plant there a colony,
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Speaker 1: and make further search and discovery in those parts there
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Speaker 1: as yet unknown, considering withal first those of his majesty's
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Speaker 1: council than those cities above named, and diverse others that
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Speaker 1: have been moved to lend their assistance to so great
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Speaker 1: a work, doth expect, especially the adventurers, the true relation
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Speaker 1: nor event of my proceedings which I here are so abused.
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Speaker 1: I am in fuss for all these respects. rather to
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Speaker 1: expose my imbecility to contempt by the testimony of these
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Speaker 1: rude lines, than all should condemn me for so bad
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Speaker 1: a factor, as could neither give reason nor account of
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Speaker 1: my actions and designs. Yours to command, John Smith End
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Speaker 1: of Section 0 Title Page and Dedication A Description of
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Speaker 1: New England by Captain John Smith. This LibriVox recording is
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Speaker 1: in a public domain. Section 1. Testimonial Verses. Opening Set.
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Speaker 1: In the deserved honour of the author, Captain John Smith,
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Speaker 1: and his work. Dumbed envy is a sprite that e'er
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Speaker 1: haunts beasts, misnamed men, cowards, or ignorance, but Only such
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Speaker 1: she follows, whose dear worth, Morgre her malice, sets their
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Speaker 1: glory forth. If this fair overture then take not, It
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Speaker 1: is envy's spite, dear friend, in men of wit, Or fear,
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Speaker 1: lest morsels, which our mouths possess, Might fall from thence,
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Speaker 1: or else tis sottishness If either, I hope neither, thee
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Speaker 1: they raise, thy letters are as letters in thy praise, who,
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Speaker 1: by their vice, improve, when they reprove, thy virtue. So,
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Speaker 1: in hate, procure thee love. Then, On firm worth this
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Speaker 1: monument I frame, Scorning for any smith to forge such fame.
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Speaker 1: Joe Davies Hereford To his worthily captain, the author, That
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Speaker 1: which we call a subject of all story, Is truth,
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Speaker 1: which in this work of thine gives glory, To all
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Speaker 1: that thou hast done. Then scorn the spite of envy,
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Speaker 1: Which doth no man's merits right, My sword may help
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Speaker 1: the rest, my pen no more can do, but this
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Speaker 1: I have said enough before. Your sometime soldier, I Codrington,
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Speaker 1: now Templar. To my worthy friend and cousin, Captain John Smith.
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Speaker 1: It overjoys my heart when as thy words of these
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Speaker 1: designers with deeds I do compare. Here is a book.
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Speaker 1: such worthy truth affords none should the jew desert thereof
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Speaker 1: impair sith thou the man deserving of these ages much
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Speaker 1: pain hath ta'en for this our kingdom's good in climes
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Speaker 1: unknown mongst turks and salvagers t'enlarge our bounds though with
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Speaker 1: thy loss of blood hence damned attraction stand not in
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Speaker 1: our way and we itself will not the truth N.
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Speaker 1: Smith To that worthy and generous gentleman, my very good friend,
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Speaker 1: Captain Smith. May feet thy project prosper, that thy name
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Speaker 1: may be eternized with living fame, though foul detraction honour
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Speaker 1: would pervert, and envy ever waits upon desert, in spite
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Speaker 1: of Peleus when his heat lays cold. return as jason
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Speaker 1: with a fleece of gold then after ages shall record
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Speaker 1: thy praise that a new england to this isle didst
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Speaker 1: raise and when thou diest as all that live must
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Speaker 1: die thy fame live here thou with eternity r gunnall
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Speaker 1: to his friend captain smith upon his description of new
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Speaker 1: england sir Your relations I have read, which show there's
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Speaker 1: reason I should honour them and you, and if their
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Speaker 1: meaning I have understood, I dare to censure thus. Your
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Speaker 1: project's good, and may, if followed, doubtless quit the pain
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Speaker 1: with honour, pleasure, and a treble gain, beside the benefit
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Speaker 1: that shall arise to make more happy our posterities. For
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Speaker 1: would we deign to spare, though it were no more
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Speaker 1: than what o'erfills and surfaces in store to order nature's
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Speaker 1: fruitfulness awhile in that rude garden you new england style
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Speaker 1: with present good there is hope in after days thence
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Speaker 1: to repair what time and pride decays in this rich
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Speaker 1: kingdom and the spateous west being still more with english
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Speaker 1: blood possessed the proud iberians shall not rule those seas
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Speaker 1: to check our ships from sailing where they please nor
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Speaker 1: future times make any foreign power become so great to
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Speaker 1: force the bound to hour much good my mind foretells
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Speaker 1: would follow hence with little labour and with less expense
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Speaker 1: thrive therefore thy design whoe'er envy england made joy in
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Speaker 1: england's colony virginia seek her virgin sister's good be blessed
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Speaker 1: in such happy neighbourhood or whatsoever fate pleaseth to permit
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Speaker 1: Be thou still honoured for first moving it. George Wither,
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Speaker 1: The Societate, Lincoln In the desert honour of my honest
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Speaker 1: and worthy captain, John Smith, and his work. Captain and friends,
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Speaker 1: when I peruse thy book, With judgment's eyes into thy
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Speaker 1: heart I look, And there I find that, what sometimes
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Speaker 1: Albion knew, a soldier to his country's honour, true. Some
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Speaker 1: fight for wealth, and some for empty praise, but thou
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Speaker 1: alone thy country's fame to raise. With you, Discretion, an
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Speaker 1: undaunted heart, I, oft so well have seen thee act
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Speaker 1: thy part, in deepest plunge of hard extremity, has forced
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Speaker 1: the troops of proudest foes to flee. Though men of
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Speaker 1: greater rank and less desert, Would pish away thy praise,
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Speaker 1: It cannot start from the true owner, For all good
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Speaker 1: men's tongue shall keep the same, To them that part belongs. If, then, wit, courage,
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Speaker 1: and success Should get thee fame, The muse for that
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Speaker 1: is in thy debt, Apart whereof, least able thou I be,
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Speaker 1: Thus here I do disperse to honour thee. Raleigh Crusher
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Speaker 1: michael fetty place william fetty place and richard whiffing gentlemen
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Speaker 1: and soldiers under captain smith's command in his deserved honour
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Speaker 1: for his work and worth why may not we in
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Speaker 1: this work have our might that had our share in
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Speaker 1: each black day and night when thou virginia foilst yet
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Speaker 1: keptst unstained and heldst the king of paspehech enchained thou
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Speaker 1: all alone this salvage astern did take paumuncus king we
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Speaker 1: saw thee captive make among seven hundred of his stoutest
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Speaker 1: men to murther thee and when fast by the hand
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Speaker 1: thou ledst this savage grim thy pistol at his breast
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Speaker 1: to guven him which did infuse such awe in all
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Speaker 1: the rest sith their dread sovran thou hast so distrest
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Speaker 1: that thou and we poor sixteen safe retired unto our
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Speaker 1: helpless ships though thus admired did make proud powhatan his
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Speaker 1: subjects send to james's town thy censure to attend and
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Speaker 1: all Virginia's lords and petty kings, awed by thy virtue,
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Speaker 1: crouch in present springs to gain thy grace, so dreaded
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Speaker 1: thou hast been, and yet a heart more mild is
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Speaker 1: seldom seen, so making valour virtue rarely, who has naught
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Speaker 1: in thee counterfeit or sly, if in the slight be
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Speaker 1: not the truest art that makes men famused for fair desert.
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Speaker 1: Who saith of thee this savours of thine glory, Mistakes
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Speaker 1: both thee and us, and this true story? If it
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Speaker 1: be ill in thee so well to do, Then is
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Speaker 1: it ill in us to praise thee too. But if
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Speaker 1: the first be well done, It is well to say
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Speaker 1: it doth, if so it doth, excel. Praise is a
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Speaker 1: garden of such dear desert, Making the praised part with
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Speaker 1: moral acrity. Honours spare his praise, Without which it regardless
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Speaker 1: soon decays, And for this pains of thine we praise
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Speaker 1: thee rather, That future times may know who was the
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Speaker 1: father Of this rare work, New England, Which may bring
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Speaker 1: praise to thy God, And profit to thy King. End
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Speaker 1: of section 1 Testimonial verses Opening set SECTION TWO OF
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Speaker 1: A DESCRIPTION OF NEW ENGLAND BY CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH This
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Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in a public domain. Recording by Algie
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Speaker 1: Pugg SECTION TWO A DESCRIPTION OF NEW ENGLAND PART ONE
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Speaker 1: THE DESCRIPTION OF NEW ENGLAND BY CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH MY
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Speaker 1: FIRST TWO VOYAGES TO NEW ENGLAND In the month of April, 1614,
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Speaker 1: with two ships from London, of a few merchants, I
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Speaker 1: happened to arrive in New England, a part of America,
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Speaker 1: at the Isle of Monabigan, in the 43rd and a
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Speaker 1: half of northerly latitude. Our plot was there to take Wales,
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Speaker 1: and to make trials of a mine of gold and copper.
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Speaker 1: If those failed, fish and furs was then our refuge.
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Speaker 1: to make ourselves savers howsoever. We found this whale-fishing a
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Speaker 1: costly conclusion. We saw many, and spent much time in
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Speaker 1: chasing them, but could not kill any, they being a
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Speaker 1: kind of jobarties, and not the whale that yielded as
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Speaker 1: finesse and oil as we expected. For our gold, it
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Speaker 1: was rather the master's device to get a voyage that
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Speaker 1: projected it, than any knowledge he had at all of
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Speaker 1: any such matter. fish and FURRERS WAS NOW OUR GUARD. AND,
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Speaker 1: BY OUR LATE ARRIVAL, AND LONG LINGERING ABOUT THE WHEEL,
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Speaker 1: THE PRIME OF BOTH THOSE SEASONS WERE PAST AIR WE
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Speaker 1: PERCEIVED IT, WE THINKING THAT THEIR SEASONS SERVED AT ALL TIMES,
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Speaker 1: BUT WE FOUND IT OTHERWISE, FOR BY THE MIDST OF
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Speaker 1: JUNE THE FISHING FAILED. YET IN JULY AND AUGUST SOME
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Speaker 1: WAS TAKEN, but not sufficient to defray so great a
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Speaker 1: charge as our stay required. Of dry fish we made
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Speaker 1: about forty thousand, of core fish about seven thousand. While
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Speaker 1: the sailors fished, myself with eight or nine others of
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Speaker 1: them might best be spared. Ranging a coast in a
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Speaker 1: small boat, we got for trifles near eleven hundred beaver skinnets,
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Speaker 1: a hundred martens, and near as many otters. and the
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Speaker 1: most of them within a distance of twenty leagues, revenge
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Speaker 1: the coast both east and west much further. But eastwards
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Speaker 1: our commodities were not esteemed, they were so near the
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Speaker 1: French who afford them better, and right against us in
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Speaker 1: the main was a ship of Sir Francis Pophamus, that
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Speaker 1: had there such acquaintance, having many years used only that part,
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Speaker 1: that the most part there was had by him. and
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Speaker 1: the Forty Leagues westward were two French ships that had
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Speaker 1: made there a great voyage by trade during the time
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Speaker 1: we tried those conclusions, not knowing the coast or salvage's habitation.
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Speaker 1: With these furs, the train, and the carfish, we returned
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Speaker 1: for England in the barrack, where, within six months after
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Speaker 1: our departure from the Downs, we safe arrived back. The
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Speaker 1: best of this fish was sold for five pound the hundredth,
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Speaker 1: the rest by ill-usage betwixt three pound and fifty shillings
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Speaker 1: the other ship stayed to fit herself for spain with
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Speaker 1: the dry fish that was sold by the sailor's report
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Speaker 1: that returned at forty riles the quintal each hundred weighing
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Speaker 1: two quintals and a half the situation of new england
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Speaker 1: New England is that part of America in the Ocean
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Speaker 1: Sea opposite to Nova Albion in the South Sea, discovered
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Speaker 1: by the most memorable Sir Francis Drake in his voyage
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Speaker 1: about the world. In regard whereto this is styled, New
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Speaker 1: England being in the same latitude. New France, off it,
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Speaker 1: is northward, southwards, East Virginia, and all the adjoining continent
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Speaker 1: with New Grenada, New Spain. New Andalusia, and the West Indies. No,
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Speaker 1: because I have been so oft asked such strange questions
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Speaker 1: of the goodness and greatness of those spacious tracts of land,
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Speaker 1: how they can be thus long unknown, or nor possessed
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Speaker 1: by the Spaniard, and many such like demands, I entreat
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Speaker 1: your pardons, if I chance to be too plain, or
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Speaker 1: tedious in relating my knowledge for plain men's satisfaction. NOTES
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Speaker 1: OF FLORIDA Florida is next adjoining to the Indies, which
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Speaker 1: unprosperously was attempted to be planted by the French, a
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Speaker 1: country far bigger than England, Scotland, France and Ireland, yet
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Speaker 1: little can known to any Christian but by the wonderful
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Speaker 1: endeavours of Ferdinand de Soto, a valiant Spaniard, whose writings
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Speaker 1: in this age is the best guide can known to
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Speaker 1: search those parts. NOTES OF VIRGINIA Virginia is no isle,
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Speaker 1: as many do imagine, but part of the continent adjoining
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Speaker 1: to Florida, whose bounds may be stretched to the magnitude
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Speaker 1: thereof without offence to any Christian inhabitant. For from the
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Speaker 1: degrees of thirty to forty-five His Majesty hath granted his
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Speaker 1: letters patents, the coast extending south-west and north-east about fifteen
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Speaker 1: hundred miles. but to follow it aboard the shore may
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Speaker 1: well be two thousand at the least of which twenty
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Speaker 1: miles is the most gives entrance into the bay of
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Speaker 1: chesapeake where is the london plantation within which is a
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Speaker 1: country as you may perceive by the description in a
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Speaker 1: book and map printed in my name of that little
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Speaker 1: i there discovered may well suffice three hundred thousand people
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Speaker 1: to inhabit and southward adjoineth that part discovered at the
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Speaker 1: church of sir walter rowley by sir ralph lane and
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Speaker 1: that learned mathematician mr thomas heriot northward six or seven
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Speaker 1: degrees is the river sagadabock where was planted the western
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Speaker 1: colony by that honourable patron of virtue sir john popham
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Speaker 1: lord chief justice of england There is also a relation
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Speaker 1: printed by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold of Elizabeth's Isles, and an
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Speaker 1: other by Captain Weymouth of the Pemaquid. From all these
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Speaker 1: diligent observers, posterity may be bettered by the fruits of
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Speaker 1: their labours. But for divers others, that long before and
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Speaker 1: since have ranged those parts, within a kenning sometimes of
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Speaker 1: the shore. some touching in one place, some in another,
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Speaker 1: I must entreat them pardon for omitting them, for if
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Speaker 1: I offend in saying that their true descriptions are concealed,
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Speaker 1: or never well observed, or died with the authors, so
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Speaker 1: that the coast is yet still, but even as a
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Speaker 1: coast unkknown and undiscovered. I have had six or seven
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Speaker 1: several plots of those northern parts, so unlike each to other,
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Speaker 1: and most so differing from any true proportion or resemblance
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Speaker 1: of the country, as they did me no more good
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Speaker 1: than while so much waste paper, though they cost me more.
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Speaker 1: It may be it was not my chance to see
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Speaker 1: the best, but least others may be deceived as I was,
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Speaker 1: or through dangerous ignorance hazard themselves as I did. I
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Speaker 1: have drawn a map from point to point, isle to isle,
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Speaker 1: and harbour to harbour, with the soundings, sands, rocks and
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Speaker 1: landmarks as i passed close aboard the shore in a
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Speaker 1: little boat although there be many things to be observed
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Speaker 1: which the haste of other affairs did cause me omit
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Speaker 1: for being sent more to get present commodities than knowledge
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Speaker 1: by discoveries for any future good i had not power
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Speaker 1: to search as i would yet it will serve to
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Speaker 1: direct any shell-go that weighs to safe harbours and the
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Speaker 1: salvager's habitations what match and dice and commodities for their
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Speaker 1: labour they may find, this following discourse shall plainly demonstrate.
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Speaker 1: Thus you may see, of this two thousand miles, more
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Speaker 1: than half is yet unkown to any purpose. No, not
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Speaker 1: so much, as the borders of the sea are yet
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Speaker 1: certainly discovered. As for the goodness and true substance of
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Speaker 1: the land, we are for the most part yet altogether
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Speaker 1: ignorant of them. unless it be those parts about the
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Speaker 1: bay of chisipeak and sagadabock but only here and there
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Speaker 1: we touched or have seen a little those edges of
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Speaker 1: those large dominions which do stretch themselves into the main
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Speaker 1: god doth know how many thousand miles but of we
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Speaker 1: can yet no more judge than a stranger that saileth
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Speaker 1: betwixt england and france can describe the harbours and dangers
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Speaker 1: by landing here and there in some river or bay
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Speaker 1: till thereby the goodness and substances of spain italy germany
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Speaker 1: bohemia hungary and the rest by this you may perceive
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Speaker 1: how much they err that think every one which hath
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Speaker 1: been at virginia understandeth or knows what virginia is or
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Speaker 1: that the spaniards know one half quarter of those territories
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Speaker 1: they possess not so much as the true circumference of
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Speaker 1: the terra incognita, whose large dominions may equalize the greatness
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Speaker 1: and goodness of America, for anything yet known. It is
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Speaker 1: strange with what small power he hath reigned in the
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Speaker 1: East Indies, and few will understand the truth of his
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Speaker 1: strength in America, where he, having so much to keep
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Speaker 1: with such a pampered force, they need not greatly fear
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Speaker 1: his fury in the bermudas virginia new france or new
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Speaker 1: england beyond whose bounds america doth stretch many thousand miles
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Speaker 1: in the frozen parts whereof one master hudson an english
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Speaker 1: mariner did make the greatest discoveries of any christian ike
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Speaker 1: know of where he unfortunately died for africa had not
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Speaker 1: the industrious portugalis ranged her unkown parts who would have
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Speaker 1: sought for wealth among those fried regions of black brutish niggers, where,
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Speaker 1: notwithstanding all the wealth and admirable adventures and endeavours, more
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Speaker 1: than a hundred and forty years, they know not one
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Speaker 1: third of those black habitations. But it is not a
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Speaker 1: work for everyone to manage such an affair as makes
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Speaker 1: a discovery and plants a colony. It requires all the
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Speaker 1: best parts of art, judgment, courage, honesty— COSTED THE DILIGENCE
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Speaker 1: AND INDUSTRY TO DO A BIT NEARER WELL. for one
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Speaker 1: thing than another, and therein are to be employed, and
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Speaker 1: nothing breeds more confusion than misplacing and misemploying men in
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Speaker 1: their undertakings. Columbus, Cortes, Pizzara, Sotto, and the rest served
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Speaker 1: more than apprenticeship to learn how to begin their most
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Speaker 1: memorable attempts in the west indies which to the wonder
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Speaker 1: of all ages successfully they effected when many hundreds of
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Speaker 1: others far above them in the world's opinion being instructed
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Speaker 1: but by relation came to shame and confusion in actions
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Speaker 1: of small moment who doubtless in other matters were both
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Speaker 1: wise discreet generous and courageous I say not this to
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Speaker 1: detract anything from their incomparable merits, but to answer those
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Speaker 1: questionless questions that keep us back from imitating the worldliness
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Speaker 1: of their brave spirits that advance themselves from poor soldiers
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Speaker 1: to great captains, their posterity to great lords, their king
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Speaker 1: to be one of the greatest potentates on earth, and
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Speaker 1: the fruits of their labours his greatest glory, power, and renown.
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Speaker 1: THE DESCRIPTION OF NEW ENGLAND That part, we call New England,
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Speaker 1: is betwixt the degrees of forty-one and forty-five. But that part,
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Speaker 1: this discuss speaketh of, stretcheth but from Pinnabscot to Cape Cod,
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Speaker 1: some seventy-five leagues by a right line distant each from other,
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Speaker 1: within which bounds I have seen at least forty several
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Speaker 1: habitations upon the sea-coast, and sound at about twenty-five excellent
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Speaker 1: good harbours. In many whereof there is anchorage for five
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Speaker 1: hundred sail of ships of any burthen, in some of
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Speaker 1: them for five thousand, and more than two hundred isles
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Speaker 1: overgrown with good timber of divers sorts of wood, which
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Speaker 1: do make so many harbours as requireth a longer time
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Speaker 1: than I had to be well discovered. The Particular Countries
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Speaker 1: or Governments The principal habitation northward we were at was Penobscot. Southward,
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Speaker 1: along the coast and up the rivers, we found Megadakut, Segokit, Pemaquid, Nuskonkus, Genebek, Sagadahok,
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Speaker 1: and Aumokeojin. And to those countries belong the people of Segatago, Paghuntenuk, Pokopassum, Taukanakinet, Wabiganus, Nasak,
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Speaker 1: masheroskwek warigwek mosokwen wakogo pasaranak etc to these are alloyed
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Speaker 1: the countries of aukosisko akomintikus pasatakwak agawon and namekek all
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Speaker 1: these i could perceive differ little in language fashion or
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Speaker 1: government though most be lords of themselves yet they hold
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Speaker 1: the bashabbies of Penobscot the chief and greatest amongst them.
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Speaker 1: The next I can remember by name are Matahunts, two
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Speaker 1: pleasant isles of groves, gardens, and cornfields in league from
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Speaker 1: the sea, from the main. Then Totunt, Massachuset, Pokerpomet, Kwonahaset, Sagokwas, Nahapassumkek, Topint, Sekasor, Totit,
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Speaker 1: nasno comacac acomac chowm then cape cod by which is
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Speaker 1: pomet and the isle nauset of the language and alliance
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Speaker 1: of them of chowm the others are called massachusetts of
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Speaker 1: another language humour and condition for their trade and merchandise
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Speaker 1: to each of their habitations they have divers towns and
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Speaker 1: people belonging and by the relations and descriptions more than
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Speaker 1: twenty several habitations and rivers that stretch themselves far up
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Speaker 1: into the country even to the borders of divers great
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Speaker 1: lakes where they kill and take most of their beavers
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Speaker 1: and otters from penobscot to saga da hock this coast
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Speaker 1: is old mountains and isles of huge rocks but overgrown
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Speaker 1: with all sorts of excellent good woods for building houses boats, barques,
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Speaker 1: or ships, with an incredible abundance of most sorts of fish,
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Speaker 1: much fowl, and sundry sorts of good fruits for man's use.
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Speaker 1: THE MIXTURE OF AN EXCELLENT SOIL Betwixt Sagadohuk and Soakatuk
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Speaker 1: there is but two or three sandy bays, but betwixt
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Speaker 1: that and Cape Cod very many. ESPECIALLY THE COAST OF
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Speaker 1: THE MASSACHUSETTS IS SO INDIFFERENTLY MIXED WITH HIGH CLAY OR
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Speaker 1: SANDY CLIFFS IN ONE PLACE AND THEN TRACKS OF LARGE
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Speaker 1: LONG LEDGES OF DIVER'S SORTS AND QUARRIES OF STONES IN
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Speaker 1: OTHER PLACES SO STRANGELY DIVIDED WITH TINCHED VEINS OF DIVER'S
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Speaker 1: COLOURS AS FREE STONE FOR BUILDING SLATE FOR TILING SMOOTH
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Speaker 1: STONE TO MAKE FURNACES AND FORGES FOR GLASS OR IRON
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Speaker 1: and iron ore sufficient conveniently to melt in them. But
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Speaker 1: the most part so resembleth the coast of Devonshire. I
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Speaker 1: think most of the cliffs would make such limestone. If
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Speaker 1: they be not of these qualities, they are so like,
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Speaker 1: they may deceive a better judgment than mine. All which
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Speaker 1: are so near adjoining those other advantages I observed in
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Speaker 1: those parts, that if the ore prove as good iron
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Speaker 1: and steel in those parts, as I know it is
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Speaker 1: within the bounds of the country, I dare engage my heed,
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Speaker 1: having but men skilful to work the simplest they are growing.
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Speaker 1: To have all things belonging to the building and the
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Speaker 1: rigging of ships of any proportion, and good merchandise for
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Speaker 1: the fraught, within a square of ten or fourteen leagues,
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Speaker 1: and were it for a good reward, I would not
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Speaker 1: fear to prove it in a less limitation. a proof
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Speaker 1: of an excellent temper a proof of health and surely
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Speaker 1: by reason of those sandy cliffs and cliffs of rocks
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Speaker 1: both which we saw so planted with gardens and corn-fields
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Speaker 1: and so well inhabited with a goodly strong and well-proportioned
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Speaker 1: people besides the greatness of the timber growing on them
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Speaker 1: the greatness of the fish and the moderate temper of
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Speaker 1: the air for of twenty-five not any were sick but
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Speaker 1: two that were many years diseased before they went notwithstanding
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Speaker 1: our bad lodging and accidental diet who can but approve
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Speaker 1: this a most excellent place both for health and fertility
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Speaker 1: and of all the four parts of the world that
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Speaker 1: i have yet seen not inhabited could i have but
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Speaker 1: means to transport a colony i would rather live here
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Speaker 1: than anywhere and if it did not maintain itself were
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Speaker 1: we but indifferently well fitted let us starve steepled commodities
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Speaker 1: present the main steeple from hence to be extracted for
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Speaker 1: the present to produce the rest is fish which however
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Speaker 1: it may seem a mean and base commodity YET WHO
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Speaker 1: WILL BUT TRULY TAKE THE PAINS AND CONSIDER THE SEQUEL,
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Speaker 1: I THINK, WILL ALLOW IT WELL WORTH THE LABOUR. IT
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Speaker 1: IS STRANGE TO SEE WHAT GREAT ADVENTURES THE HOPES OF
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Speaker 1: SETTING FORTH MEN OF WAR TO ROB THE INDUSTRIOUS INNOCENT
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Speaker 1: WOULD PROCURE, OR SUCH MASSY PROMISES INGROSS, OR MORE A
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Speaker 1: CHOKE THEN WELL-FED WITH SUCH HASTY HOPES. THE HOLLANDERS FISHING
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Speaker 1: but who doth not know that the poor Hollanders, chiefly
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Speaker 1: by fishing, had a great charge and labour in all
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Speaker 1: weathers in the open sea, and made a people so
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Speaker 1: hardy and industrious, and by the venting this poor commodity
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Speaker 1: to the Easterlings were as mean, which is wood, flax, pitch, tar, rosin, cordage,
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Speaker 1: and such like, for which they exchange again to the French, Spaniards, Portugalis,
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Speaker 1: and English, etc., for what they want a maid so
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Speaker 1: mighty strong and rich as no state but venice of
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Speaker 1: twice their magnitude is so well furnished with so many
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Speaker 1: fair cities goodly towns strong fortresses and that abundance of
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Speaker 1: shipping and all sorts of merchandise as well of gold
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Speaker 1: silver pearls diamonds precious stones silks velvets and cloths of
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Speaker 1: gold as fish pitch wood such gross commodities what voyages
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Speaker 1: and discoveries east and west north and south yea about
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Speaker 1: the world make they what an army by sea and
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Speaker 1: land have they long maintained in despite of one of
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Speaker 1: the greatest princes of the world and never could the
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Speaker 1: spaniard with all his mines of gold and silver pay
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Speaker 1: his debts his friends and army half so truly as
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Speaker 1: the hollanders still have done by this contemptible trade of
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Speaker 1: fish duyvers i know may allege many other assistances but
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Speaker 1: this is their mine, and the sea the source of
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Speaker 1: those silvered streams of all their virtue, which hath made
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Speaker 1: them now the very miracle of industry, the pattern of
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Speaker 1: perfection for these affairs, and the benefit of fishing is
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Speaker 1: that primum mobile which turns all their spheres to this
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Speaker 1: height of plenty, strength, honour and admiration, which is fifteen
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Speaker 1: hundred pound. Heading, Codd and Ling is a triplicity which
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Speaker 1: makes their wealth and shippings multiplicities, such as it is,
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Speaker 1: and from which, few would think it, they yearly draw
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Speaker 1: at least half a million and a half of pounds sterling.
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Speaker 1: Yet it is most certain, if records be true, and
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Speaker 1: in this faculty they are so naturalised, and of their
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Speaker 1: vents so certainly acquainted, as there is no likelihood they
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Speaker 1: will ever be paralleled, having two or three thousand buses,
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Speaker 1: flat bottoms, sword-pinks, toads, and such like, that breeds them sailors, mariners, soldiers,
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Speaker 1: and merchants, never to be wrought out of that trade,
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Speaker 1: unfit for any other. I will not deny, but others
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Speaker 1: may gain as well as they, that will use it,
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Speaker 1: though not so certainly. nor so much in quantity, for
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Speaker 1: want of experience. And this herring they take upon the
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Speaker 1: coasts of Scotland and England, their cod and ling upon
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Speaker 1: the coasts of Ireland and in the North Seas. Hambourg
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Speaker 1: and the East Countries, for sturgeon and caviar, gets many
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Speaker 1: thousands of pounds from England, and the Straits, Portugale, the Biscaynes,
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Speaker 1: and the Spaniards make forty or fifty sailor yearly to
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Speaker 1: Cape Blanc to hook for porgos, mullet, and make putado.
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Speaker 1: A new found land doth yearly float near, eight hundred
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Speaker 1: sail of ships with a silly lean skinny poor John,
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Speaker 1: and corphish, which at least yearly amounts to three or
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Speaker 1: four hundred thousand pound, if from all those parts such
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Speaker 1: pains is taken for this poor gains of fish. and
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Speaker 1: by them hath neither meat, drink, nor clothes, wood, iron,
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Speaker 1: nor steel, pitch, tar, nets, leads, salt, hooks, nor lines,
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Speaker 1: for shipping, fishing, nor provision, but at the second, third, fourth,
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Speaker 1: or fifth hand, drawn from so many several parts of
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Speaker 1: the world ere they come together to be used in
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Speaker 1: this voyage. If these, I say, can gain— and the
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Speaker 1: sailors live going for shares less than the third part
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Speaker 1: of their labours yet spend as much time in going
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Speaker 1: and coming as in staying there so short is the
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Speaker 1: season of fishing why should not we more doubt than
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Speaker 1: holland portugale spaniard french or other but to do much
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Speaker 1: better than they when there is vitriol to feed us
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Speaker 1: wood of all sorts to build boats ships or barracks
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Speaker 1: The fish should outdoors pitch, tar, masts, yards, and most
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Speaker 1: of the other necessities only for making. And here are
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Speaker 1: no hard landlords to rack us with high rents, or
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Speaker 1: extorted fines to consume us, no tedious pleas in law
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Speaker 1: to consume us with their many years' disputations for justice,
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Speaker 1: no multitudes to occasion such impediments to good orders as
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Speaker 1: in populous states. so freely hath god and his majesty
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Speaker 1: bestowed those blessings on them that will attempt to obtain
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Speaker 1: them as here every man may be master and owner
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Speaker 1: of his own labour and land for the greatest part
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Speaker 1: in a small time if he have nothing but his
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Speaker 1: hands he may set up this trade and by industry
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Speaker 1: quickly grow rich spending but half that time well which
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Speaker 1: in england we abuse in idleness worse, or as ill.
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Speaker 1: Here is ground almost as good as any loyeth in
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Speaker 1: the height of 41, 42, 43, etc., which is as
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Speaker 1: temperate and as fruitful as any other parallel in the world.
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Speaker 1: Examples of the altitude comparatively As, for example, on this
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Speaker 1: side the line west of it in the South Sea
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Speaker 1: is Nova Albion, discovered, as is said, by Sir Francis Drake.
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Speaker 1: East from it is the most temperate part of Portugale,
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Speaker 1: the ancient kingdoms of Galatia, Biscay, Navarre, Aragon, Catalonia, Castilla,
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Speaker 1: the old and the most modernist of Castilla the new,
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Speaker 1: and Valencia, which is the greatest part of Spain, which,
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Speaker 1: if the Spanish histories be true, in the Romans' time
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Speaker 1: abounded no less with gold and silver mines than now
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Speaker 1: the West Indies. the Romans then using the Spaniards to
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Speaker 1: work in those mines, as now the Spaniards doth the Indians.
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Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Section 3
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Speaker 1: A Description of New England Part 2 And France, the
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Speaker 1: provinces of Gascony, Languedoc, Avignon, Provence, Dauphine, Piedmont, and Turin,
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Speaker 1: are in the same parallel, which are the best and
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Speaker 1: richest parts of France. in italy the provinces of genoa
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Speaker 1: lombardy and verona with a great part of the most
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Speaker 1: famous state of venus the dukedoms of bannonia mantua ferrara
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Speaker 1: ravenna bologna florence pisa siena urbina ancona and the ancient
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Speaker 1: city and country of rome with a great part of
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Speaker 1: the great kingdom of Naples, in Slavonia, Istria and Dalmatia,
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Speaker 1: with the kingdoms of Albania, in Gratia, that famous kingdom
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Speaker 1: of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Thessalia, Thracea or Romania, where is seated
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Speaker 1: the most pleasant and plentiful city in Europe, Constantinople. in
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Speaker 1: asia also in the same latitude are the temperatest parts
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Speaker 1: of natolia armenia persia and china besides divers other large
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Speaker 1: countries and kingdoms in these most mild and temperate regions
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Speaker 1: of asia southward in the same height is the richest
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Speaker 1: of gold mines chili and baldivia on the mouth of
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Speaker 1: the great river of etc., for all the rest of
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Speaker 1: the world in that height is yet unknown. Besides these reasons,
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Speaker 1: mine own eyes, that have seen a great part of
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Speaker 1: those cities and their kingdoms, as well as it, can
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Speaker 1: find no advantage they have in nature but this. They
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Speaker 1: are beautified by the long labour and diligence of industrious
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Speaker 1: people and art.' this is only as god made it
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Speaker 1: when he created the world therefore i conclude if the
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Speaker 1: heart and entrails of those regions were sought if their
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Speaker 1: land were cultured planted and manured by men of industry
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Speaker 1: judgment and experience what hope is there or what need
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Speaker 1: they doubt having these advantages of the sea but it
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Speaker 1: might equalize any of those famous kingdoms in all commodities
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Speaker 1: pleasures and conditions seeing even the very edges do naturally
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Speaker 1: afford us such plenty as no ship need return away
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Speaker 1: empty and only use but the season of the sea
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Speaker 1: fish will return an honest gain THE PARTICULAR STAPLED COMMODITIES
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Speaker 1: THAT MAY BE HAD. AND, WHEREAS IT IS SAID, THE
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Speaker 1: HOLLANDERS SERVE THE EASTERLINGS THEMSELVES, AND OTHER PARTS THAT WANT,
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Speaker 1: WITH HERRING, LING, AND WET CODE, THE EASTERLINGS, A GREAT
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Speaker 1: PART OF EUROPE, WITH STRUGION AND CAVIAR, KEEP BLANK SPAIN, PORTUGALI,
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Speaker 1: AND THE LEVANT, WITH MULLET, and Potargo, Newfoundland, all Europe,
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Speaker 1: with a thin poor John, yet all is so overlaid
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Speaker 1: with fishers, as the fishing decayeth, and many are constrained
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Speaker 1: to return with a small fruit. Norway and Polonia, pitch, tar, masts,
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Speaker 1: and yards, Swetland and Russia, iron and ropes france and
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Speaker 1: spain canoes wine steel iron and oil italy and greece
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Speaker 1: silks and fruits i dare boldly say because i have
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Speaker 1: seen naturally growing or breeding in those parts the same
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Speaker 1: materials that all those are made of they may as
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Speaker 1: well be had here or the most part of them
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Speaker 1: within the distance of seventy leagues for some few ages
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Speaker 1: as from all those parts using but the same means
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Speaker 1: to have them that they do and with all those
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Speaker 1: advantages THE NATURE OF GROUND APPROVED First, the ground is
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Speaker 1: so fertile that questionless it is capable of producing any grain, fruits,
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Speaker 1: or seed you will sow or plant growing in the
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Speaker 1: regions aforenamed. But it may be not every kind to
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Speaker 1: that perfection of delicacy, or some tender plants may miscarry,
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Speaker 1: because the summer is not so hot. and the winter
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Speaker 1: more cold in those parts we have yet tried near
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Speaker 1: the sea-side than we find in the same height in
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Speaker 1: europe or asia that i made a garden upon the
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Speaker 1: top of a rocky isle in forty three and a
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Speaker 1: half four leagues from the main in may that grew
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Speaker 1: so well as it served us for salads in june
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Speaker 1: and july all sorts of cattle may here be bred
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Speaker 1: and fed in the isles or peninsulas securely for nothing
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Speaker 1: in the interim till they increase if need be observing
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Speaker 1: the seasons i durst undertake to have corn enough from
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Speaker 1: the salvages for three hundred men for a few trifles
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Speaker 1: and if they should be untoward as it is most
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Speaker 1: certain they are thirty or forty good men will be
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Speaker 1: sufficient to bring them all into subjection and make this provision,
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Speaker 1: if they understand what they do. Two hundred whereof may
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Speaker 1: nine moneths in a year be employed in making machinable fish,
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Speaker 1: till the rest provide other necessaries, fit to furnish us
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Speaker 1: with other commodities. The Seasons for Fishing Approved In March, April, May,
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Speaker 1: and half of June, Here is cod in abundance, in May, June, July,
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Speaker 1: and August, mullet and sturgeon, whose rows do make caviar
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Speaker 1: and putargo, herring, if any desire them. I have taken
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Speaker 1: many out of the bellies of cods, some in nets,
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Speaker 1: but the salvagers compare their store in the sea to
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Speaker 1: the hairs of their haids, and surely there are an
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Speaker 1: incredible abundance upon this coast. IN THE END OF AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER,
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Speaker 1: AND NOVEMBER YOU HAVE CAUGHT A GAIN TO MAKE CAR
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Speaker 1: FISH OR POURIGION, AND EACH HUNDRED IS AS GOOD AS
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Speaker 1: TWO OR THREE HUNDRED IN THE NEW-FOUND LAND, SO THAT
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Speaker 1: HALF THE LABOUR IN HOOKING, SPLITTING, AND TURNING IS SAVED,
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Speaker 1: AND YOU MAY HAVE YOUR FISH AT WHAT MARKET YOU
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Speaker 1: WILL BEFORE THEY CAN HAVE ANY IN NEW-FOUND LAND. where
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Speaker 1: their fishing is chiefly but in June and July, whereas
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Speaker 1: it is here in March, April, May, September, October, and November,
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Speaker 1: as is said, so that by reason of this plantation
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Speaker 1: the merchants may have fraught both out and home, which
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Speaker 1: yields an advantage worth consideration. Your carfish you may in
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Speaker 1: like manner transport as you see cause, to serve the
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Speaker 1: ports in portugale as lisbon oura port to port and
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Speaker 1: divers others or what market you please before your islanders
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Speaker 1: return they being tied to the season in the open
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Speaker 1: sea you having a doubled season and fishing before your
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Speaker 1: doors may every night sleep quietly ashore with good cheer
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Speaker 1: and what fires you will or when you please with
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Speaker 1: your wives and family they only their ships in the
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Speaker 1: main ocean the mullets here are in that abundance you
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Speaker 1: may take them with nets sometimes by hundreds where at
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Speaker 1: cape blanc they hooketh them yet those but one foot
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Speaker 1: and a half in length these two three or four
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Speaker 1: as oft i have measured much salmon some have found
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Speaker 1: up the rivers as they have passed here the air
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Speaker 1: is so temperate as all these at any time may
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Speaker 1: well be preserved employment for poorer people and fatherless children
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Speaker 1: now young boys and girlish salvagers or any other be
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Speaker 1: they never such idlers may turn carry and return fish
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Speaker 1: without either shame nor any great pain. He is very
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Speaker 1: idle that is past twelve years of age and cannot
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Speaker 1: do so much, and she is very old that cannot
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Speaker 1: spin a thread to make engines to catch them. The
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Speaker 1: Facility of the Plantation For their transportation, the ships that
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Speaker 1: go there to fish may transport the first, who for
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Speaker 1: their passage will spare the charge of double manning their ships,
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Speaker 1: which they must do in the new-found land to get
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Speaker 1: their fraught. But one third part of that company are
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Speaker 1: only but proper to serve a stage, carry a barrel,
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Speaker 1: and turn porridge on. Notwithstanding, they must have meat, drink, clothes,
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Speaker 1: and passage, as well as the rest. Now all I
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Speaker 1: desire is but this, that those that voluntarily will send
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Speaker 1: their shipping should make here the best choice they can,
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Speaker 1: or accept such as are presented them to serve them
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Speaker 1: at that rate, and their ships returning leave such with me,
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Speaker 1: with the value of that they should receive coming home,
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Speaker 1: in such provisions and necessary tools, arms, bedding, and apparel, salt, hooks, nets, lines,
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Speaker 1: and such like as they spare of the remainings, who,
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Speaker 1: till the next return, may keep their boats, and do
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Speaker 1: them many other profitable offices, provided I have been of
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Speaker 1: ability to teach them their functions, and a company fit
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Speaker 1: for sodears to be ready upon such an occasion, because
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Speaker 1: of the abuses which have been offered the poor salvagers,
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Speaker 1: and the liberty both French, or any that will hath
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Speaker 1: to deal with them as they please whose disorders will
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Speaker 1: be hard to reform and the longer the worse now
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Speaker 1: such order with facility might be taken with every port
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Speaker 1: town or city to observe but this order with free
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Speaker 1: power to convert the benefits of their fruits to what
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Speaker 1: advantage they please, and increase their numbers as they see occasion, whoever,
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Speaker 1: as they are able to subsist of themselves, may begin
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Speaker 1: the new towns in New England in memory of their old,
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Speaker 1: which freedom, being confined but to the necessity of the
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Speaker 1: general good, the event, with God's help, might produce an honest, noble,
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Speaker 1: and a profitable emulation. Present Commodities Salt upon salt may
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Speaker 1: assuredly be made, if not at the first in puns,
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Speaker 1: yet till they be provided this may be used. Then
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Speaker 1: the ships may transport kine, horse, goats, coarse cloth, and
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Speaker 1: such commodities as we want, by whose arrival may be
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Speaker 1: made that provision of fish to fraught the ships, that
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Speaker 1: they stay not. And then, if the sailors go for wages,
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Speaker 1: it matters not. It is hard if this return to
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Speaker 1: free not the charge, but care must be had, they
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Speaker 1: arrive in the spring, or else provision be made for
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Speaker 1: them against the winter. Of certain red berries, called alchermes,
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Speaker 1: which is worth ten shillings a pound, but of these
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Speaker 1: hath been sold for thirty or forty shillings a pound,
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Speaker 1: may yearly be gathered a good quantity. Of the muskrat
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Speaker 1: may be well-raised gains, well worth their labour, that will
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Speaker 1: endeavour to make trial of their goodness. Of beavers, otters, martens,
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Speaker 1: black foxes, and furs of price, may yearly be had
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Speaker 1: six or seven thousand, and if the trade of the
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Speaker 1: french were prevented many more twenty-five thousand this year were
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Speaker 1: brought from those northern parts into france of which trade
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Speaker 1: we may have as good part as the French, if
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Speaker 1: we take good courses. Of mines of gold and silver, copper,
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Speaker 1: and probabilities of lead, crystal, and alum, I could say
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Speaker 1: much if relations were good assurances. It is true, indeed,
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Speaker 1: I have made many trials according to those instructions I
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Speaker 1: had which do persuade me I need not despair, but
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Speaker 1: there are metals in the country. But I am no alchemist,
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Speaker 1: no will promise more than I know, which is, who
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Speaker 1: will undertake the rectifying of an iron forge if those
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Speaker 1: that buy meat, drink, culls, ore, and all necessaries had
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Speaker 1: a dear rate gain, where all these things had to
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Speaker 1: be had for the taking up in my opinion, cannot lose.
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Speaker 1: Of woods, seeing there is plenty of all sorts, if
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Speaker 1: those that build ships and boats buy wood at so
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Speaker 1: great a price as it is in England, Spain, France, Italy,
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Speaker 1: and Holland, and all other provisions for the nourishing of
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Speaker 1: man's life, live well by their trade, when labour is
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Speaker 1: all required to take those necessaries without any other tact
1:00:26
Speaker 1: What hazard will be here, but do much better? And
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Speaker 1: what commodity in Europe doth more decay than wood? For
1:00:35
Speaker 1: the goodness of the ground, let us take it fertile,
1:00:38
Speaker 1: or barren, or as it is, seeing it is certain
1:00:43
Speaker 1: it bears fruits, to nourish and feed man and beast,
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Speaker 1: as well as England, and the sea those several sorts
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Speaker 1: of fish I have related. THUS SEEING ALL GOOD PROVISIONS
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Speaker 1: FOR MAN'S SUSTAINANCE MAY WITH THIS FACILITY BE HAD BY
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Speaker 1: A LITTLE EXTRAORDINARY LABOUR TILL THAT TRANSPORTED BE INCREASED, AND
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Speaker 1: ALL NECESSARIES FOR SHIPPING ONLY FOR LABOUR, TO WHICH MAY
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Speaker 1: BE ADDED THE ASSISTANCE OF THE SALVAGERS, WHICH MAY EASILY
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Speaker 1: BE HAD IF THEY BE DISCREETLY HANDLED IN THEIR KINDS,
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Speaker 1: TOWARDS FISHING, PLANTING, AND DESTROYING WOODS. What gains might be
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Speaker 1: raised if this were followed, when there is but once
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Speaker 1: men to fill your storehouses? Dwelling there, you may serve
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Speaker 1: all Europe better and far cheaper than can the Ireland fishers,
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Speaker 1: or the Hollanders, Cape Blanc, or Newfoundland, who must be
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Speaker 1: at as much more charge than you, may easily be
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Speaker 1: conjectured by this example. ON EXAMPLE OF THE GAINS UPON
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Speaker 1: EVERY YEAR OR SIX MONTHS RETURN. TWO THOUSAND POUND WILL
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Speaker 1: FIT OUT A SHIP OF TWO HUNDRED AND ONE OF
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Speaker 1: A HUNDRED TONS, IF THE DRY FISH THEY BOTH MAKE
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Speaker 1: FRAUGHT THAT OF TWO HUNDRED, AND GO FOR SPAIN, SELL
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Speaker 1: IT PUT AT TEN SHILLINGS A QUINTLE, BUT COMMONLY IT
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Speaker 1: GIVETH FIFTEEN OR TWENTY, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMETH FIRST. which
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Speaker 1: amounts to three or four thousand pound but see but
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Speaker 1: ten which is the lowest allowing the rest for waste
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Speaker 1: it amounts at that rate to two thousand pound which
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Speaker 1: is the whole charge of your two ships and their
1:02:34
Speaker 1: equipage Then the return of the money, and the fraught
1:02:39
Speaker 1: of the ship for the vintage, or any other voyage,
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Speaker 1: is clear gain, with your ship of a hundred tons
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Speaker 1: of train and oil, besides the beavers and other commodities,
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Speaker 1: on that you may have at home within six moneths,
1:02:55
Speaker 1: if God please but to send an ordinary passage. Then
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Speaker 1: saving half this charge, by the not staying of your
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Speaker 1: ships your victuals overplus the men and wages with their
1:03:08
Speaker 1: fraught thither of things necessary for the planters the salt
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Speaker 1: being there made as also may the nets and lines
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Speaker 1: within a short time if nothing were to be expected
1:03:21
Speaker 1: but this it might in time equalize your hollanders gains
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Speaker 1: if not exceed them they returning but would tar on
1:03:32
Speaker 1: such gross commodities you wines oils fruits silks on such
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Speaker 1: straits commodities as you please to provide by your factors
1:03:44
Speaker 1: against such times as your ships arrive with them This
1:03:48
Speaker 1: would so increase our shipping and sailors, and so employ
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Speaker 1: and encourage a great part of our idlers and others
1:03:56
Speaker 1: that want employments fitting their qualities at home, with a
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Speaker 1: shame to do that they would do abroad. That could
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Speaker 1: they but once taste the sweet fruits of their own labours,
1:04:08
Speaker 1: doubtless many thousands would be advised by good discipline to
1:04:12
Speaker 1: take more pleasure in honest industry than in their humours
1:04:16
Speaker 1: of dissolute idleness. a description of the countries in particular
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Speaker 1: and their situations. But to return a little more to
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Speaker 1: the particulars of this country, which I intermingle thus with
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Speaker 1: my projects and reasons, not being so sufficiently yet acquainted
1:04:36
Speaker 1: in those parts, to write fully the estate of the sea,
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Speaker 1: the air, the land, the fruits, the rocks, the people,
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Speaker 1: the government, religion, territories, and limitations friends and foes but
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Speaker 1: as i gathered from the niggardly relations in a broken
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Speaker 1: language to my understanding during the time i ranged those
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Speaker 1: countries c the most northern part i was at was
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Speaker 1: the bay of penobscot which is east and west north
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Speaker 1: and south more than ten leagues but such were my
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Speaker 1: occasions I was constrained to be satisfied of them I
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Speaker 1: found in the bay, that the river ran far up
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Speaker 1: into the land, and was well inhabited with many people,
1:05:27
Speaker 1: but they were from the habitations, either fishing among the
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Speaker 1: isles or hunting the lakes and woods for deer and beavers.
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Speaker 1: The bay is full of great islands of one, two, six,
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Speaker 1: eight or ten miles in length, which divides it into
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Speaker 1: many fair and excellent good harbours. On the east of
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Speaker 1: it are the Tarentines, their mortal enemies, where inhabit the French,
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Speaker 1: as they report that live with those people as one
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Speaker 1: nation or family. And north-west of Penobscot is Mecca d'Acoute,
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Speaker 1: at the foot of a high mountain, a kind of
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Speaker 1: fortress against the Tarentines. Adjoining to the high mountains of
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Speaker 1: Penobscot against whose feet doth beat the sea but over
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Speaker 1: all the land isles and other impediments you may well
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Speaker 1: see them sixteen or eighteen leagues from their situation sagokit
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Speaker 1: is the next then nusconcus pemmaquid and sagadahoc up this
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Speaker 1: river where was the western plantation are aumukkogen kinebeck and
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Speaker 1: divers others where there is planted some corn-fields along this
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Speaker 1: river of forty or fifty miles i saw nothing but
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Speaker 1: great high cliffs of barren rocks overgrown with wood but
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Speaker 1: where the salvage is dwelt there the ground is exceeding
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Speaker 1: fat and fertile westward of this river is the country
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Speaker 1: of auco cisco in the bottom of a large deep
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Speaker 1: bay full of many great isles which divides it into
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Speaker 1: many good harbours so o katuk is the next in
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Speaker 1: the edge of a large sandy bay which hath many
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Speaker 1: rocks and isles but few good harbours but for barks
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Speaker 1: i yet know but all of this coast to and
1:07:28
Speaker 1: as far as i could see eastward of it is
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Speaker 1: nothing but such high craggy cliffy rocks and stony aisles
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Speaker 1: that i wondered such great trees could grow upon such
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Speaker 1: hard foundations it is a country rather to affright than
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Speaker 1: delight one and how to describe a more plain spectacle
1:07:47
Speaker 1: of desolation or more barren i know not yet the
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Speaker 1: sea there is the strangest fishpond i ever saw on
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Speaker 1: those barren isles so furnished with good woods, springs, fruits, fish,
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Speaker 1: and fowl, that it makes me think, though the coast
1:08:06
Speaker 1: be rocky and thus affrightable, the valleys, plains, and interior
1:08:12
Speaker 1: parts may well, notwithstanding, be very fertile. But there is
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Speaker 1: no kingdom so fertile hath not some part barren. A
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Speaker 1: new England is great enough, to make many kingdoms and
1:08:26
Speaker 1: countries were it all inhabited as you pass the coasts
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Speaker 1: still westward aquaminticus and passatacuac are two convenient harbours for
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Speaker 1: small barques and a good country within their craggy cliffs
1:08:43
Speaker 1: is the next this place may content a right curious
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Speaker 1: judgment but there are many suns at the entrance of
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Speaker 1: the harbour And the worst is, it is indeed too
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Speaker 1: far from the deep sea. Here are many rising hills,
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Speaker 1: and on their tops and descents many cornfields and delightful groves.
1:09:04
Speaker 1: On the east is an isle of two or three
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Speaker 1: leagues in length, the one-half plain moorish grass fit for pasture,
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Speaker 1: with many fair high groves of mulberry trees, gardens, and
1:09:17
Speaker 1: there is also oak, pines, and other woods to make
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Speaker 1: this place an excellent habitation, being a good and safe harbour.
1:09:27
Speaker 1: Name kick, though it be more rocky ground, for Angawam
1:09:30
Speaker 1: is sandy, not much inferior, neither for the harbour nor
1:09:36
Speaker 1: anything I could perceive, but the multitude of peoples. From
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Speaker 1: hence doth stretch into the sea the fair Heidland, Trugabigzanda,
1:09:45
Speaker 1: fronted with three isles called the Three Turks' Heids. To
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Speaker 1: the north of this doth enter a great bay, where
1:09:54
Speaker 1: we found some habitations and cornfields. They were apart a
1:09:58
Speaker 1: great river, and at least thirty habitations to possess this country.
1:10:04
Speaker 1: But because the French had got their trade, I had
1:10:07
Speaker 1: no leisure to discover it. The isles of Matahunts are
1:10:12
Speaker 1: on the west side of this bay, where are many
1:10:14
Speaker 1: isles and questionless good harbours. And then the country of
1:10:19
Speaker 1: the Massachusetts, which is the paradise of all those parts,
1:10:24
Speaker 1: for here are many isles, oh, planted with corn, groves, mulberries,
1:10:30
Speaker 1: salvaged gardens, and good harbours. the coast is for the
1:10:34
Speaker 1: most part high clay sandy cliffs the sea-coast as you
1:10:39
Speaker 1: pass shows you all along large corn-fields and great troops
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Speaker 1: of well-proportioned people but the french having remained here near
1:10:49
Speaker 1: six weeks left nothing for us to take occasion to
1:10:54
Speaker 1: examine the inhabitants relations viz if there be near three
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Speaker 1: thousand people upon these isles and that the river doth
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Speaker 1: pierce many days journeys the intervals of that country we
1:11:08
Speaker 1: found the people in those parts very kind but in
1:11:12
Speaker 1: their fury no less valiant for upon a quarrel we
1:11:16
Speaker 1: had with one of them he only with three others
1:11:19
Speaker 1: crossed the harbour of quannahasset to thirteen rocks whereby we
1:11:24
Speaker 1: must pass and there let fly their arrows for our
1:11:28
Speaker 1: shot till we were out of danger Then come you
1:11:32
Speaker 1: to Akomak, an excellent good harbour, good land, and no
1:11:37
Speaker 1: want of anything but industrious people. After much kindness, upon
1:11:43
Speaker 1: a small occasion, we fought also with forty or fifty
1:11:47
Speaker 1: of those, though some were hurt and some slain, yet
1:11:51
Speaker 1: within an hour after they became friends. Cape Cod is
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Speaker 1: the next it presents itself. which is only a headland
1:12:00
Speaker 1: of high hills of sand, overgrown with shrubby pines, hurts,
1:12:05
Speaker 1: and such trash, but an excellent harbour for all weathers.
1:12:09
Speaker 1: This cape is made by the main sea on the
1:12:12
Speaker 1: one side, and a great bay on the other, in
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Speaker 1: form of a sickle. On it doth inhabit the people
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Speaker 1: of Paumet, and in the bottom of the bay the
1:12:22
Speaker 1: people of Chaum. Towards the south and south-west of this
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Speaker 1: cape is found a long and dangerous shoal of sands
1:12:30
Speaker 1: and rocks, but so far as I encircled it, I
1:12:34
Speaker 1: found thirty fathom water aboard the shore, and a strong current,
1:12:39
Speaker 1: which makes me think there is a channel about this shoal.
1:12:43
Speaker 1: Where is the best and greatest fish to be had,
1:12:46
Speaker 1: winter and summer, in all that country? But, as the
1:12:51
Speaker 1: salvagers say, there is no channel, but that the shoals
1:12:54
Speaker 1: begin from the main at Pormat, to the isle of Nauset,
1:12:58
Speaker 1: and so extends beyond their knowledge into the sea. The
1:13:02
Speaker 1: next to this is Kapawak, and those abounding countries of copper, corn, people,
1:13:09
Speaker 1: and minerals, which I went to discover this last year.
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Speaker 1: But because I am miscarried by the way, I will
1:13:17
Speaker 1: leave them, to God please, I have better acquaintance with them.
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Speaker 1: End of Section 3 A DESCRIPTION OF NEW ENGLAND PART
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Speaker 1: TWO RECORDING BY ALGIE PUG SECTION FOUR OF A DESCRIPTION
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Speaker 1: OF NEW ENGLAND BY CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH THIS LIBERVOX RECORDING
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Speaker 1: IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SECTION FOUR A DESCRIPTION OF
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Speaker 1: NEW ENGLAND PART THREE A good country. The Massachusetts, they report,
1:14:02
Speaker 1: sometimes have wars with the Bishabis at Penobscot, and are
1:14:06
Speaker 1: not always friends with them of Chowham and their Allianz,
1:14:11
Speaker 1: but now they are all friends, and have each trade
1:14:15
Speaker 1: with other, so far as they have society on each
1:14:19
Speaker 1: other's frontiers. for they make no such voyages as from
1:14:22
Speaker 1: Penobscot to Cape Cod, seldom to Massachusetts. In the north,
1:14:29
Speaker 1: as I have said, they begin to plant corn, whereof
1:14:33
Speaker 1: the south part hath such plenty, as they have what
1:14:36
Speaker 1: they will from them of the north, and in the
1:14:39
Speaker 1: winter much more plenty of fish and fowl, but both
1:14:44
Speaker 1: winter and summer hath it in one part or other
1:14:47
Speaker 1: all the year. being the main and most indifferent temper
1:14:51
Speaker 1: betwixt heat and cold of all the regions betwixt the
1:14:55
Speaker 1: line and the pole, but the furrows northward are much
1:14:59
Speaker 1: better and in much more plenty than southward. The Landmarks
1:15:06
Speaker 1: The remarkablest isles and mountains for landmarks are these. The
1:15:11
Speaker 1: highest isle is Suddicoe in the Bay of Pinnob Scott.
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Speaker 1: but the three isles and the rock of Matinac are
1:15:18
Speaker 1: much further in the sea. Matinicus is also three plain
1:15:23
Speaker 1: isles and a rock betwixt it and Monahigan. Monahigan is
1:15:28
Speaker 1: a round high isle, and close by it Monanis, betwixt
1:15:33
Speaker 1: which is a small harbour where we ride. In Demeril's
1:15:37
Speaker 1: isles is such another. Sagadahok is known by Satquin, and
1:15:43
Speaker 1: four or five isles in the mouth. Smith's Isles are
1:15:47
Speaker 1: a heap together, none near them, against Accominticus. The three
1:15:53
Speaker 1: Turks' Hades are three Isles seen far to seaward in
1:15:57
Speaker 1: regard of the Hade-land. The chief Hade-lands are only Cape
1:16:03
Speaker 1: Tragabigzanda and Cape Cod. Herbs. The chief mountains, them of Penobscot,
1:16:12
Speaker 1: the twinkling mountain of Alcosisco, THE GREAT MOUNTAIN OF SUSSANON,
1:16:18
Speaker 1: AND THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF MASSACHUSETT, EACH OF WHICH YOU
1:16:22
Speaker 1: SHALL FIND IN THE MAP, THE PLACES, FORMS, AND ALTITUDE,
1:16:27
Speaker 1: THE WATERS ARE THE MOST PURE, PROCEEDING FROM THE INTERES
1:16:31
Speaker 1: OF ROCKY MOUNTAINS, THE HERBS AND FRUITS ARE OF MANY
1:16:35
Speaker 1: SORTS AND KINDS, AS ARE CARAMIES, CURRENTS, OR FRUIT-LIKE CURRENTS, MULBERRIES, VINES, RESPICIES, gooseberries, plums, walnuts, chestnuts, smallnuts, etc., pumpions, gourds, strawberries, beans, peas,
1:16:57
Speaker 1: and maize, and a kind or two of flax, wherewith
1:17:01
Speaker 1: they make nets, lines, and ropes, both small and great,
1:17:06
Speaker 1: very strong for their quantities. Woods. Oak is the chief wood,
1:17:13
Speaker 1: of which there is great difference in regard to the
1:17:16
Speaker 1: soil where it groweth, fir, pine, walnut, chestnut, birch, ash, elm, cypress, cedar, mulberry,
1:17:28
Speaker 1: plum tree, hazel, saxifragge, and many other sorts. Birds. Eagles, gripes,
1:17:37
Speaker 1: diverse sorts of hawk, cranes, geese, brants, cormorants, ducks, sheldrakes, teal, miwes, gulls, turkeys, dove-duppes,
1:17:51
Speaker 1: and many other sorts whose names I know not. Fishes, whales, grampus, pokpuses, turbot, sturgeon, cud, hake, heddock, coal,
1:18:07
Speaker 1: Cusk or small ling, shark, mackerel, herring, mullet, bass, pinax, cunas, perch, eels, crabs, lobsters, mussels, wilks, oysters,
1:18:24
Speaker 1: and diverse others, etc. BEASTS Moose, a beast bigger than
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Speaker 1: a stag, deer, red and fallow. beavers, wolves, foxes, both
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Speaker 1: black and other, arafcons, wildcats, bears, otters, martens, fitches, musquasus,
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Speaker 1: and divers sorts of vermin whose names i know not
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Speaker 1: all these and divers other good things do here for
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Speaker 1: want of use still increase and decrease with little diminution
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Speaker 1: whereby they grow to that abundance you shall scarce find
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Speaker 1: any bay, shallow shore, or cove of sand, where you
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Speaker 1: may not take many clamps, or lobsters, or both at
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Speaker 1: your pleasure, and in many places load your boat, if
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Speaker 1: you please, nor isles where you find not fruits, birds, crabs,
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Speaker 1: and mussels, or all of them fataking at a low water,
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Speaker 1: and in the harbours we frequented a little buoy might
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Speaker 1: take of coonies, and pinnacks, and such delicate fish, at
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Speaker 1: the ship's stern, more than six or ten can eat
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Speaker 1: in a day. But with a casting net, thousands when
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Speaker 1: we pleased, and scarce any place, but Codd, Cusk, Hulliboot, Mackerel, Skate,
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Speaker 1: or such like, a man may take with a hook
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Speaker 1: or line what he will, and in diverse sandy bays
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Speaker 1: a man may draw with a net a great store
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Speaker 1: of mullets, bases, and diverse other sorts of such excellent fish,
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Speaker 1: as many as his net can draw on shore. No
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Speaker 1: river where there is not plenty of sturgeon, or salmon,
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Speaker 1: or both, or which are to be had in abundance,
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Speaker 1: observing but their seasons. But if a man will go
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Speaker 1: at Christmas to gather cherries in Kent, he may be deceived,
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Speaker 1: though there be plenty in summer. So here these plenties
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Speaker 1: have their seasons, as I have expressed. We for the
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Speaker 1: most part had little but bread and vinegar, and though
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Speaker 1: the most part of July when the fishing decayed, they
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Speaker 1: wrought all day, lay abroad in the isles all night,
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Speaker 1: and lived on what they found, yet were not sick.
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Speaker 1: But I would wish none put himself long to such plunges,
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Speaker 1: except necessity constrain it. Yet worthy is that person to
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Speaker 1: starve that here cannot live. if he have sense, strength,
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Speaker 1: and health. For there is no such penury of these
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Speaker 1: blessings in any place, but that a hundred men may,
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Speaker 1: in one hour or two, make their provisions for a day.
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Speaker 1: And he that hath experience to manage well these affairs,
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Speaker 1: with forty or thirty honest industrious men, might well undertake,
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Speaker 1: if they dwelled in these parts, to subject the salvagers
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Speaker 1: and feed daily two or three hundred men with as
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Speaker 1: good corn, fish, and flesh as the earth hath of
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Speaker 1: those kinds, and yet make that labour but their pleasure,
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Speaker 1: provided that they have engines that be proper for their purposes.
1:21:46
Speaker 1: A note for men that have great spirits and small means.
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Speaker 1: Who can desire more content that hath small means, or
1:21:58
Speaker 1: but only his merit to advance his fortune, then to
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Speaker 1: tread and plant that ground he hath purchased by the
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Speaker 1: hazard of his life? If he have but the taste
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Speaker 1: of virtue and magnanimity, what to such a mind can
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Speaker 1: be more pleasant than planting and building a foundation for
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Speaker 1: his posterity, got from the rude earth by God's blessing
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Speaker 1: and his own industry, without prejudice to any? IF HE
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Speaker 1: HAVE ANY GRAIN OF FAITH OR ZEAL IN RELIGION, WHAT
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Speaker 1: CAN HE DO LESS HURTFUL TO ANY, OR MORE AGREEABLE
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Speaker 1: TO GOD, THAN TO SEEK TO CONVERT THOSE POOR SALVAGERS
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Speaker 1: TO KNOW CHRIST AND HUMANITY, WHOSE LABORS WITH DISCRETION WILL
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Speaker 1: TRIPLE REQUITE THEIR CHARGE AND PAINS? WHAT SO TRULY SUITS
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Speaker 1: WITH HONOR AND HONESTY AS THE DISCOVERING THINGS UNCONKNOWN, ERECTING TOWNS,
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Speaker 1: PEOPLE IN COUNTRIES, informing the ignorant, reforming things unjust, teaching virtue,
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Speaker 1: and gain to our nature-mother country a kingdom to attend her,
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Speaker 1: find employment for those that are idle because they know
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Speaker 1: not what to do, so far from wronging any as
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Speaker 1: to cause posterity to remember thee, and remembering thee ever
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Speaker 1: honour that remembrance with praise? Consider, what were the beginnings
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Speaker 1: and endings of the monarchies of the chaldeans the syrians
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Speaker 1: the grecians and the romanists but this one rule what
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Speaker 1: was it they would not do for the good of
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Speaker 1: the commonwealth or their mother city for example rome what
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Speaker 1: made her such a monarchess but only the adventures of
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Speaker 1: her youth not in riots at home but in dangers
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Speaker 1: abroad on the justice and judgment out of their experience
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Speaker 1: when they grew aged what was their ruin and hurt
1:23:57
Speaker 1: but this the excess of idleness the fondness of parents
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Speaker 1: the want of experience in magistrates the admiration of their
1:24:06
Speaker 1: undeserved honours the contempt of true merit their unjust jealousies
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Speaker 1: their politic incredulities their hypocritical seeming goodness and their deeds
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Speaker 1: of secret lewdness finally in vain growing only formal temperists
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Speaker 1: all that their predecessors got in many years they lost
1:24:28
Speaker 1: in few days those by their pains and virtues became
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Speaker 1: lords of the world they by their ease and vices
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Speaker 1: became slaves to their servants This is the difference betwixt
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Speaker 1: the use of arms in the field and on the
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Speaker 1: monuments of stones, the golden age and the leaden age,
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Speaker 1: prosperity and misery, justice and corruption, substance and shadows, words
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Speaker 1: and deeds, experience and imagination, making commonwealths and marrying commonwealths,
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Speaker 1: the fruits of virtue and the conclusions of vice. than
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Speaker 1: who would live at home idly or think in himself
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Speaker 1: any worth to live only to eat drink and sleep
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Speaker 1: and so die or by consuming that carelessly his friends
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Speaker 1: got wetherly or by using that miserably that maintained virtue
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Speaker 1: honestly for being descended nobly pine with the vain vaunt
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Speaker 1: of great kindred in penury to maintain a silly show
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Speaker 1: of bravery, toil out thy heart, soul, and time, basely
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Speaker 1: by shifts, tricks, cards, and dice, or by relating news
1:25:50
Speaker 1: of others' actions, shark here or there for a dinner
1:25:54
Speaker 1: or supper, deceive thy friends by fair promises and a
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Speaker 1: simulation in borrowing where thou never intendest to pay, offend
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Speaker 1: the laws, surfeit with excess, Burden thy country, abuse thyself,
1:26:10
Speaker 1: despair in want, and then cousin thy kindred, yea, even
1:26:14
Speaker 1: thine own brother, and wish thy parents' death, I will
1:26:18
Speaker 1: not say damnation, to have their estates, though thou seest
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Speaker 1: what honours and rewards the world yet hath for them
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Speaker 1: will seek them, and worthily deserve them. I would be
1:26:32
Speaker 1: sorry to offend, or that any should mistake my honest meaning,
1:26:37
Speaker 1: for aye wish good to all, hurt to none. But
1:26:40
Speaker 1: rich men, for the most part, are grown to that
1:26:43
Speaker 1: dotage through their pride in their wealth, as though there
1:26:47
Speaker 1: were no accident could end it or their life. And
1:26:51
Speaker 1: what hellish care do such take to make it their
1:26:54
Speaker 1: own misery and their country's spoil, especially when there is
1:26:59
Speaker 1: most need of their employment, drawing by all manner of
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Speaker 1: inventions from the prince and his honest subjects, even the
1:27:06
Speaker 1: vital spirits of their powers and estates, as if their
1:27:10
Speaker 1: bags or brags were so powerful a defence the malicious
1:27:15
Speaker 1: could not assault them, when near the only bait, to
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Speaker 1: cause us not to be only assaulted, but betrayed and
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Speaker 1: murdered in our own security, ere we well perceive it.
1:27:27
Speaker 1: An Example of Secure Covetousness may not the miserable ruin
1:27:34
Speaker 1: of constantinople their impregnable wallace riches and pleasures last taken
1:27:40
Speaker 1: by the turk which are but a bit in comparison
1:27:44
Speaker 1: of their now mightiness remember us of the effects of
1:27:48
Speaker 1: braved covetousness at which time THE GOOD EMPEROR HELD HIMSELF
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Speaker 1: RICH ENOUGH TO HAVE SUCH RICH SUBJECTS, SO FORMAL IN
1:27:57
Speaker 1: ALL EXCESS OF VANITY, ALL KIND OF DELICACY AND PRODIGALITY.
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Speaker 1: HIS POVERTY WHEN THE TURKS BESIEGED, THE CITIZENS WHOSE MARCHANDISING
1:28:08
Speaker 1: THOUGHTS WERE ONLY TO GET WEALTH, LITTLE CONCEIVING THE DESPERATE
1:28:12
Speaker 1: RESOLUTION OF A VALIANT EXPERT ENEMY, LEFT THE EMPEROR SO
1:28:17
Speaker 1: LONG TO HIS CONCLUSIONS having spent all he had to
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Speaker 1: pay his young raw disconsented soldiers and suddenly he they
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Speaker 1: and their city were all a prey to the devouring
1:28:31
Speaker 1: turk and what they would not spare for the maintenance
1:28:35
Speaker 1: of them who had ventured their lives to defend them
1:28:38
Speaker 1: did serve only their enemies to torment them their friends
1:28:43
Speaker 1: and country and old christendom to this present day let
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Speaker 1: this lamentable example remember you that are rich seeing there
1:28:52
Speaker 1: are such great thieves in the world to rob you
1:28:56
Speaker 1: not grudged to lend some proportion to breed them that
1:28:59
Speaker 1: have little yet willing to learn how to defend you
1:29:03
Speaker 1: for it is too late when the deed is a-doing
1:29:06
Speaker 1: the romanus estate hath been worse than this for the
1:29:11
Speaker 1: mere covetousness and extortion of a few of them so
1:29:15
Speaker 1: move the rest that not having any employment but contemplation,
1:29:20
Speaker 1: their great judgments grew to so great malice as themselves
1:29:25
Speaker 1: were sufficient to destroy themselves by faction. Let this move
1:29:30
Speaker 1: you to embrace employment for those whose educations, spirits, and
1:29:35
Speaker 1: judgments want but your purses, not only to prevent such
1:29:40
Speaker 1: accustomed dangers, but also to gain more thereby than you have.
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Speaker 1: and you fathers that are either so foolishly fond, or
1:29:50
Speaker 1: so miserably covetous, or so willfully ignorant, or so negligently careless,
1:29:57
Speaker 1: as that you would rather maintain your children in idle
1:30:00
Speaker 1: wantonness till they grow your masters, or become so basely
1:30:05
Speaker 1: unkind as they wish nothing but your death, so that
1:30:09
Speaker 1: both sorts grow dissolute. and although you would wish them
1:30:14
Speaker 1: anywhere to escape the gallows and ease your cares, though
1:30:18
Speaker 1: they spend you here one, two, or three hundred pound
1:30:22
Speaker 1: a year, you would grudge them to give half so
1:30:25
Speaker 1: much in adventure with them to obtain an estate, which
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Speaker 1: in a small time, but with a little assistance of
1:30:32
Speaker 1: your providence, might be better than your own. But if
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Speaker 1: an angel should tell you, that any place yet unknown
1:30:40
Speaker 1: can afford such fortunes you would not believe him no
1:30:45
Speaker 1: more than columbus was believed there was any such land
1:30:48
Speaker 1: as is now the well-known abounding america much less such
1:30:53
Speaker 1: large regions are yet unknown as well in america as
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Speaker 1: in africa and asia and terra incognita Where were courses
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Speaker 1: for gentlemen, and them that would be so reputed, more
1:31:08
Speaker 1: suiting their qualities than begging from their prince's generous disposition
1:31:13
Speaker 1: the labours of his subjects and the very marrow of
1:31:17
Speaker 1: his maintenance? THE ARTHUR'S CONDITIONS I have not been so ill-bred.
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Speaker 1: BUT I HAVE TASTED OF PLENTY UNPLEASURE AS WELL AS
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Speaker 1: WANT AND MISERY. NOR DOETH NECESSITY YET, NOR OCCASION OF DISCONTENT,
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Speaker 1: FORCE ME TO THESE ENDEAVOURS. NOR AM I IGNORANT WHAT
1:31:40
Speaker 1: SMOTH THINK I SHALL HAVE FOR MY PAINS, OR THAT
1:31:44
Speaker 1: MANY WOULD HAVE THE WORLD IMAGINE THEM TO BE OF
1:31:46
Speaker 1: GREAT JUDGEMENT THAT CAN BUT BLEMISH THESE, MY DESIGNERS, BY
1:31:51
Speaker 1: THE WITTY OBJECTIONS AND ATTRACTIONS. Yet I hope my reasons
1:31:57
Speaker 1: with my deeds will so prevail with some that I
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Speaker 1: shall not want employment in these affairs to make the
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Speaker 1: most blind see his own senselessness and incredulity, hoping that
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Speaker 1: gain will make them affect that which religion, charity, and
1:32:15
Speaker 1: the common good cannot. It were but a poor device
1:32:19
Speaker 1: in me to deceive myself. Much more the king and
1:32:23
Speaker 1: state my friends and country with these inducements which seeing
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Speaker 1: his majesty hath given permission i wish all sorts of
1:32:33
Speaker 1: worthy honest industrious spirits would understand and if they desire
1:32:39
Speaker 1: any further satisfaction i will do my best to give
1:32:43
Speaker 1: it not to persuade them to go only but go
1:32:47
Speaker 1: with them, not leave them there, but live with them there.
1:32:51
Speaker 1: I will not say, but by ill-providing and undue managing,
1:32:56
Speaker 1: such courses may be taken, may make us miserable enough,
1:33:00
Speaker 1: but if I have the execution of what I have projected,
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Speaker 1: if they want to eat, let them eat, or never
1:33:07
Speaker 1: digest me. If I perform what I say, I desire,
1:33:12
Speaker 1: but that reward out of the gainest may suit my pains, quality,
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Speaker 1: and condition. And if I abuse you with my tongue,
1:33:21
Speaker 1: take my heed for satisfaction. If any dislike at the
1:33:25
Speaker 1: year's end, defraying their charge, by my consent, they should
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Speaker 1: freely return. I fear not want of company sufficient, were
1:33:35
Speaker 1: it but canone what I can know of these countries.
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Speaker 1: AND BY THE PROOF OF THAT WEALTH I HOPE YEARLY
1:33:42
Speaker 1: TO RETURN, IF GOD PLEASE TO BLESS ME FROM SUCH
1:33:45
Speaker 1: ACCIDENTS AS ARE BEYOND MY POWER IN REASON TO PREVENT,
1:33:49
Speaker 1: FOR I AM NOT SO SIMPLE TO THINK THAT EVER
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Speaker 1: ANY OTHER MOTIVE THAN WEALTH WILL EVER ERECT THERE A COMMONWEAL,
1:33:57
Speaker 1: OR DRAW COMPANY FROM THE EASE AND HUMORS AT HOME
1:34:01
Speaker 1: TO STAY IN NEW ENGLAND TO AFFECT MY PURPOSES. THE PLANTERS, PLEASURES,
1:34:07
Speaker 1: AND PROFITS unless any should think the toil might be insupportable,
1:34:13
Speaker 1: though these things may be had by labour and diligence,
1:34:17
Speaker 1: I assure myself, there are who delight extremely in vain pleasure,
1:34:22
Speaker 1: that take much more pains in England to enjoy it,
1:34:25
Speaker 1: than I should do here to gain wealth sufficient. Yet
1:34:29
Speaker 1: I think they should not have half such sweet content,
1:34:33
Speaker 1: for our pleasure here is still gains, in England charges
1:34:38
Speaker 1: and loss. Here nature and liberty affords us that freely,
1:34:43
Speaker 1: which in England we want, or it costeth us dearly.
1:34:47
Speaker 1: What pleasure can be had, then, being tired with any
1:34:51
Speaker 1: occasion ashore, in planting vines, fruits, or herbs, in contriving
1:34:57
Speaker 1: their own grounds to the pleasure of their own minds,
1:35:01
Speaker 1: their fields, gardens, orchards, buildings, ships, and other works, etc.,
1:35:08
Speaker 1: TO RECREATE THEMSELVES BEFORE THEIR OWN DOORS, IN THEIR OWN
1:35:12
Speaker 1: BOATS UPON THE SEA, WHERE MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD, WITH
1:35:16
Speaker 1: A SMALL HOOK AND LINE, BY ANGLING, MAY TAKE DIVERSE
1:35:21
Speaker 1: SORTS OF EXCELLENT FISH AT THEIR PLEASURES? AND IS IT
1:35:25
Speaker 1: NOT PRETTY SPORT TO PULL UP TWO-PENCE, SIX-PENCE, AND TWELVE-PENCE,
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Speaker 1: AS FAST AS YOU CAN HAIL AND VEER A LINE?
1:35:34
Speaker 1: HE IS A VERY BAD FISHER. cannot kill in one
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Speaker 1: day with his hook and line one two or three
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Speaker 1: hundred cods which dressed and dried if they be sold
1:35:45
Speaker 1: there for ten shillings the hundred though in england they
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Speaker 1: will give more than twenty may not both the servant
1:35:53
Speaker 1: the master and merchant be well content with this gain
1:35:58
Speaker 1: if a man work but three days in seven he
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Speaker 1: may get more than he can spend unless he will
1:36:05
Speaker 1: be excessive Now the carpenter, mason, gardener, tailor, smith, sailor, foragers,
1:36:13
Speaker 1: or what other, may they not make this a pretty recreation,
1:36:17
Speaker 1: though they fish but an hour in a day to
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Speaker 1: take more than they eat in a week? Or if
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Speaker 1: they will not eat it, because there is so much
1:36:26
Speaker 1: better choice, yet sell it or change it with the
1:36:30
Speaker 1: fishermen or merchants for anything they want, and what sport
1:36:34
Speaker 1: doth yield a more pleasing content and less hurt and
1:36:38
Speaker 1: charge them than angling with a hook and crossing the
1:36:42
Speaker 1: sweet air from isle to isle over the silent streams
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Speaker 1: of a calm sea wherein the most curious may find
1:36:50
Speaker 1: pleasure profit and content thus though all men be not
1:36:56
Speaker 1: fishers yet all men whatsoever may in other matters do
1:37:01
Speaker 1: as well for necessity doth in these cases so rule
1:37:05
Speaker 1: a commonwealth, and each in a several functions, as their
1:37:10
Speaker 1: labours in their qualities may be as profitable, because there
1:37:14
Speaker 1: is a necessary mutual use of all. EMPLOYMENTS FOR GENTLEMEN
1:37:21
Speaker 1: For gentlemen what exercise should more delight them than ranging
1:37:26
Speaker 1: daily those unknown parts? using fowling and fishing for hunting
1:37:31
Speaker 1: and hawking, and yet you shall see the wild hawks
1:37:35
Speaker 1: give you some pleasure in seeing them stoop six or
1:37:39
Speaker 1: seven after one another, an hour or two together, at
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Speaker 1: the skulls of the fish in the fair harbours, as
1:37:47
Speaker 1: those ashore at a fowl, and never trouble nor torment
1:37:51
Speaker 1: yourselves with watching, mewing, feeding, and attending them. nor kill
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Speaker 1: horse and man with running and crying see you not
1:38:01
Speaker 1: a hawk for hunting also the woods lakes and rivers
1:38:06
Speaker 1: afford not only cheese sufficient for any that delights in
1:38:11
Speaker 1: that kind of toil or pleasure but beasts to hunt
1:38:15
Speaker 1: that besides the delicacy of their bodies for food their
1:38:18
Speaker 1: skins are so rich as may recompense thy daily labour
1:38:22
Speaker 1: with a captain's pay Employments for LABOURERS For labourers, if
1:38:30
Speaker 1: those that sow hemp, rape, turnips, parsnips, carrots, cabbage, and
1:38:36
Speaker 1: such like, give twenty, thirty, forty, fifty shillings yearly for
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Speaker 1: an acre of ground, and meet drinking wages to use it,
1:38:47
Speaker 1: and yet grow rich. when better, or at least as
1:38:51
Speaker 1: good ground, may be had and cost nothing but labour,
1:38:55
Speaker 1: it seems strange to me that is what should there
1:38:59
Speaker 1: grow poor. My purpose is not to persuade children from
1:39:04
Speaker 1: their parents, men from their wives, nor servants from their masters,
1:39:09
Speaker 1: only such as with free consent may be spared. but
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Speaker 1: that each parish or village in city or country that
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Speaker 1: will but apparel their fatherless children of thirteen or fourteen
1:39:22
Speaker 1: years of age, or young married people that have small
1:39:26
Speaker 1: wealth to live on, here by their labour may live
1:39:30
Speaker 1: exceeding well, provided always that first there be sufficient power
1:39:34
Speaker 1: to command them, houses to receive them, means to defend them,
1:39:39
Speaker 1: and meet provisions for them. for any place may be overlaid,
1:39:45
Speaker 1: and it is most necessary to have a fortress, ere
1:39:48
Speaker 1: this grow to practice, and sufficient masters, as carpenters, masons, fishers, fowlers, gardeners, husbandmen, sawyers, smiths, spinsters, tailors, weavers,
1:40:05
Speaker 1: and such like, to take ten, twelve, or twenty, or
1:40:10
Speaker 1: as there is occasion for apprentices. The masters by this
1:40:15
Speaker 1: may quickly grow rich, these may learn their trades themselves
1:40:19
Speaker 1: to do the like, to a general and an incredible
1:40:23
Speaker 1: benefit for king and country, master and servant. Examples of
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Speaker 1: the Spaniard It would be a history of a large
1:40:34
Speaker 1: volume to recite the adventures of the Spaniards and Portugals,
1:40:39
Speaker 1: their affronts and defeats, their dangers and miseries, which, with
1:40:45
Speaker 1: such incomparable honour and constant resolution, so far beyond belief,
1:40:50
Speaker 1: they have attempted and endured in their discoveries and plantations,
1:40:55
Speaker 1: as may well condemn us of too much imbecility, sloth
1:40:59
Speaker 1: and negligence. Yet the authors of those new inventions were
1:41:04
Speaker 1: held as ridiculous, for a long time as now are
1:41:08
Speaker 1: others that do but seek to imitate their unparalleled virtues
1:41:13
Speaker 1: and though we see daily their mountains of wealth sprung
1:41:17
Speaker 1: from the plants of their generous endeavours yet is our
1:41:20
Speaker 1: sensuality and untowardness such and so great that we either
1:41:26
Speaker 1: ignorantly believe nothing or so curiously contest, to prevent we
1:41:31
Speaker 1: can know not what future events, that we either so neglect,
1:41:37
Speaker 1: or oppress or discourage the present, as we spoil all
1:41:41
Speaker 1: in the making, crop all in the blooming, and building
1:41:45
Speaker 1: upon fair sand, rather than rough rocks, judge that we
1:41:50
Speaker 1: can know not, govern that we have not, fear that
1:41:54
Speaker 1: which is not, and for fear some should do too well,
1:41:58
Speaker 1: force such against their wills to be idle or as
1:42:01
Speaker 1: ill and who is he hath judgment courage and any
1:42:06
Speaker 1: industry or quality with understanding will leave his country his
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Speaker 1: hopes at home his certain estate his friends pleasures liberty
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Speaker 1: and the preferments sweet england doth afford to all degrees
1:42:21
Speaker 1: were it not to advance his fortunes by enjoying his
1:42:24
Speaker 1: deserts whose prosperity once appearing will encourage others but it
1:42:30
Speaker 1: must be cherished as a child till it be able
1:42:33
Speaker 1: to go and understand itself and not corrected nor oppressed
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Speaker 1: above its strength ere it can know wherefore a child
1:42:43
Speaker 1: can neither perform the office nor deeds of a man
1:42:46
Speaker 1: of strength nor endure that affliction he is able nor
1:42:50
Speaker 1: can an apprentice at the first perform the part of
1:42:53
Speaker 1: a meister and if twenty years be required to make
1:42:57
Speaker 1: a child a man seven years limited an apprentice for
1:43:00
Speaker 1: his trade. If scarce an age be sufficient to make
1:43:04
Speaker 1: a wise man or a statesman, uncommonly a man dies
1:43:09
Speaker 1: ere he hath learned to be discreet. If perfection be
1:43:13
Speaker 1: so hard to be obtained, as of necessity there must
1:43:17
Speaker 1: be practice as well as theoric. But no man much
1:43:20
Speaker 1: condemn this paradox opinion to say that half seven years
1:43:25
Speaker 1: is scarce sufficient. FOR A GOOD CAPACITY TO LEARN IN
1:43:29
Speaker 1: THESE AFFAIRS HOW TO CARRY HIMSELF, AND WHOEVER SHALL TRY
1:43:34
Speaker 1: IN THESE REMOTE PLACES THE ERECTING OF A COLONY SHALL
1:43:38
Speaker 1: FIND AT THE END OF SEVEN YEARS OCCASION ENOUGH TO
1:43:42
Speaker 1: USE ALL HIS DISCRETION, AND IN THE INTERIM ALL THE CONTENT, REWARDS, GAINS,
1:43:49
Speaker 1: AND HOPES WILL BE NECESSARILY REQUIRED TO BE GIVEN TO
1:43:52
Speaker 1: THE BEGINNING, TILL IT BE ABLE TO CREEP, TO STAND,
1:43:56
Speaker 1: AND GO. time enough to keep it from running for
1:44:00
Speaker 1: there is no fear it will grow too fast or
1:44:04
Speaker 1: ever to any thing except liberty profit honour and prosperity
1:44:09
Speaker 1: there found more bind the planters of those affairs in
1:44:13
Speaker 1: devotion to affect it than bondage violence tyranny ingratitude and
1:44:20
Speaker 1: such double-dealing as binds free men to become slaves and
1:44:25
Speaker 1: honest men turn knaves which hath ever been the ruin
1:44:29
Speaker 1: of most popular commonweals, and is very unlikely ever well
1:44:34
Speaker 1: to begin in a new. THE BLISS OF SPAIN Who
1:44:40
Speaker 1: seeth not what is the greatest good of the Spaniard
1:44:43
Speaker 1: but these new conclusions, in searching those unkown parts of
1:44:48
Speaker 1: this unkown world, by which means he dives even into
1:44:52
Speaker 1: the very secret of all his neighbours, and for the
1:44:56
Speaker 1: most part of the world, when the portugale and spaniard
1:45:00
Speaker 1: found the east and west indies how many did condemn
1:45:03
Speaker 1: themselves that did not accept of that honest offer of
1:45:07
Speaker 1: noble columbus who upon our neglect brought them to it
1:45:12
Speaker 1: persuading ourselves the world had no such places as they
1:45:15
Speaker 1: had found and yet ever since we find they still
1:45:20
Speaker 1: from time to time have found new lands new nations
1:45:25
Speaker 1: and trades and still daily do find both in asia
1:45:29
Speaker 1: africa terra incognita and america so that there is neither
1:45:34
Speaker 1: sodeer nor mechanic from the lord to the beggar but
1:45:38
Speaker 1: those parts afford them all employment and discharge their native
1:45:43
Speaker 1: soil of so many thousands of all sorts that else
1:45:47
Speaker 1: by their sloth pride and imperfections would long ere this
1:45:53
Speaker 1: have troubled their neighbours, or have eaten the pride of
1:45:56
Speaker 1: Spain itself. Now he knows little, that knows not England
1:46:02
Speaker 1: may well spare many more people than Spain, and is
1:46:05
Speaker 1: as well able to furnish them with all manner of necessaries.
1:46:10
Speaker 1: And seeing, for all they have, they cease not still
1:46:14
Speaker 1: to search for that which they have not, and know not,
1:46:18
Speaker 1: It is strange we should be so dull as not
1:46:21
Speaker 1: maintain that which we have and pursue that which we know.
1:46:27
Speaker 1: Surely I am sure many would taste it ill to
1:46:30
Speaker 1: be abridged of the titles and honours of their predecessors, when,
1:46:34
Speaker 1: if but truly they would judge themselves, look how inferior
1:46:38
Speaker 1: they are to their noble virtues, so much they are
1:46:41
Speaker 1: unworthy of their honours and livings, which never were ordained
1:46:46
Speaker 1: for shows and shadows, to maintain idleness and vice, but
1:46:51
Speaker 1: to make them more able to abound in honour by
1:46:54
Speaker 1: heroical deeds of action, judgment, piety, and virtue. What was it?
1:47:02
Speaker 1: They would not do both in purse and person, for
1:47:05
Speaker 1: the good of the commonwealth, which might move them presently
1:47:09
Speaker 1: to set out their spare kindred in these generous designs?' RELIGION,
1:47:14
Speaker 1: ABOVE ALL THINGS, SHOULD MOVE US, ESPECIALLY THE CLERGY, IF
1:47:19
Speaker 1: WE WERE RELIGIOUS, TO SHOW OUR FAITH BY OUR WORKS,
1:47:23
Speaker 1: IN CONVERTING THOSE POOR SALVAGERS TO THE CONKNOWLEDGE OF GOD,
1:47:27
Speaker 1: SEEING WHAT PAINS THE SPANIAD TAKE TO BRING THEM TO
1:47:30
Speaker 1: THEIR ADULTERATED FAITH. HONOUR MIGHT MOVE THE GENTRY, THE VALIANT
1:47:35
Speaker 1: AND INDUSTRIOUS, AND THE HOPE AND ASSURANCE OF WEALTH, all
1:47:40
Speaker 1: if we were that we would seem and be accounted
1:47:44
Speaker 1: or be we so inferior to other nations or our
1:47:48
Speaker 1: spirits so far dejected from our ancient predecessors or our
1:47:53
Speaker 1: minds so upon spoil piracy and such villainy as to
1:47:58
Speaker 1: serve the portugal spaniard dutch french or turk as to
1:48:04
Speaker 1: the cost of europe too many do rather than our
1:48:08
Speaker 1: god our king, our country, and ourselves, excusing our idleness
1:48:15
Speaker 1: and our base complaints by want of employment, when here,
1:48:20
Speaker 1: is such choice of all sorts and for all degrees
1:48:24
Speaker 1: in the planting and discovering these north parts of America.
1:48:48
Speaker 1: SECTION V. A DESCRIPTION OF NEW ENGLAND. PART IV. MY
1:48:51
Speaker 1: SECOND VOYAGE TO NEW ENGLAND. No, to make my words
1:48:53
Speaker 1: more apparent by my deeds. I was, the last year, sixteen-fifteen,
1:49:16
Speaker 1: to have stayed in the country to make a more
1:49:19
Speaker 1: ample trial of those conclusions with sixteen men whose names
1:49:24
Speaker 1: were Thomas Dearmer, Gentleman Edward Stallings, Gentleman Daniel Cage, Gentleman
1:49:37
Speaker 1: Francis Abbott, Gentleman John Gosling, Gentleman Gentlemen. William Ingram, soldier.
1:49:47
Speaker 1: Robert Mehta, soldier. David Cooper, soldier. John Partridge, soldier. And
1:49:57
Speaker 1: two boys. Thomas Digby, sailor. Daniel Baker, sailor. Adam Smith, sailor.
1:50:09
Speaker 1: Thomas Watson, sailor.' Walter Chiswick, sailor.' John Hall, sailor.' I
1:50:19
Speaker 1: confess I could have wished them as many thousands' had
1:50:23
Speaker 1: all the provisions been in like proportion,' nor would I
1:50:27
Speaker 1: have had so few,' could I have had means for more.' Yet,
1:50:32
Speaker 1: would God have pleased we had safely arrived,' I had
1:50:36
Speaker 1: never the like authority, freedom, and provision to do so well.'
1:50:41
Speaker 1: THE MAIN ASSISTANCE, NEXT GOD, I HAD TO THIS SMALL NUMBER,
1:50:46
Speaker 1: WAS MY ACQUAINTANCE AMONG THE SALVAGERS, ESPECIALLY WITH DOBANIDA, ONE
1:50:52
Speaker 1: OF THEIR GREATEST LORDS, WHO HAD LIVED LONG IN ENGLAND.
1:50:57
Speaker 1: BY MEANS OF THIS PROUD SALVAGE, I DID NOT DOUBT
1:51:01
Speaker 1: BUT QUICKLY TO HAVE GOT THAT CREDIT WITH THE REST
1:51:04
Speaker 1: OF HIS FRIENDS AND ALLIANCE, TO HAVE HAD AS MANY
1:51:07
Speaker 1: OF THEM AS I DESIRED IN ANY DESIGNS I INTENDED.
1:51:12
Speaker 1: and that trade also they had by such a kind
1:51:16
Speaker 1: of exchange of their country commodities which both with ease
1:51:21
Speaker 1: and security in the seasons may be used with him
1:51:25
Speaker 1: and divers others i had concluded to inhabit and defend
1:51:30
Speaker 1: them against the tarentines with a better power than the
1:51:34
Speaker 1: french did them whose tyranny did enforce them to embrace
1:51:38
Speaker 1: my offer with no small devotion and though many may
1:51:43
Speaker 1: think me more bold than wise, in regard of their power, dexterity, treachery,
1:51:49
Speaker 1: and inconstancy, having so desperately assaulted and betrayed many others,
1:51:55
Speaker 1: I say but this, because with so many I have
1:52:00
Speaker 1: many times done much more in Virginia than I intended here,
1:52:05
Speaker 1: when I wanted that experience Virginia taught me. that to
1:52:09
Speaker 1: me it seems no danger more than ordinary and though
1:52:14
Speaker 1: i know myself the meanest of many thousands whose apprehensive
1:52:19
Speaker 1: inspection can pierce beyond the bounds of my abilities into
1:52:24
Speaker 1: the hidden things of nature art and reason yet i
1:52:29
Speaker 1: entreat such give me leave to excuse myself of so
1:52:33
Speaker 1: much imbecility as to say that in these eight years
1:52:38
Speaker 1: which i have been conversant with these affairs i have
1:52:41
Speaker 1: not learned there is a great difference betwixt the directions
1:52:45
Speaker 1: and judgment of experimental knowledge and the superficial conjecture of
1:52:51
Speaker 1: variable relation wherein humour or misprision have such power that
1:52:59
Speaker 1: oft times one is enough to beguile twenty but twenty
1:53:05
Speaker 1: not sufficient to keep one from being deceived therefore i
1:53:10
Speaker 1: know no reason but to believe my own eyes before
1:53:14
Speaker 1: any man's imagination that is but wrested from the conceits
1:53:19
Speaker 1: of my own projects and endeavours but i honour with
1:53:24
Speaker 1: all affection, the counsel and instructions of judicial directions, or
1:53:29
Speaker 1: any other honest advertisement, so far to observe as they
1:53:34
Speaker 1: tie me not to the cruelty of uncannone events. These
1:53:40
Speaker 1: are the inducements that drew me to neglect all other employments,
1:53:45
Speaker 1: and to spend my time and best abilities in these adventures,
1:53:49
Speaker 1: wherein I though I have had many discouragements by the
1:53:53
Speaker 1: ingratitude of some, the malicious slanders of others, the falseness
1:53:59
Speaker 1: of friends, the treachery of cowards, and slowness of adventurers,
1:54:04
Speaker 1: but chiefly by one Hunt, who was master of the ship,
1:54:08
Speaker 1: with whom oft arguing these projects for a plantation, however
1:54:13
Speaker 1: he seemed well in words to like it, yet he
1:54:16
Speaker 1: practised to have robbed me of my plots and observations,
1:54:21
Speaker 1: and so left me alone in a death-let isle to
1:54:24
Speaker 1: the fury of famine and all other extremities, lest I
1:54:29
Speaker 1: should have acquainted Sir Thomas Smith, my honourable good friend,
1:54:34
Speaker 1: on the Council of Virginia. To the end, he and
1:54:38
Speaker 1: his associates might secretly engross it, ere it were canoned
1:54:43
Speaker 1: to the State. yet that God, that hath always kept
1:54:47
Speaker 1: me from the worst of such practices, delivered me from
1:54:50
Speaker 1: the worst of his dissimulations. Notwithstanding, after my departure, he
1:54:56
Speaker 1: abused the salvages where he came, and betrayed twenty-seven of
1:55:01
Speaker 1: these poor innocent souls, which he sold in Spain for slaves,
1:55:06
Speaker 1: to move the heat against our nation, as well as
1:55:09
Speaker 1: to cause my proceedings to be so much the more difficult. Now,
1:55:15
Speaker 1: returning in a barque in the 5th of August, I
1:55:19
Speaker 1: arrived at Plymouth, where, imparting those my purposes to my
1:55:23
Speaker 1: honourable friend Sir Ferdinando Gorge and some others, I was
1:55:29
Speaker 1: so encouraged and assured to have them managing their authority
1:55:33
Speaker 1: in those parts during my life that I engaged myself
1:55:38
Speaker 1: to undertake it for them. Arriving at London, I found
1:55:42
Speaker 1: also many promised me such assistance that I entertained Michael Cooper,
1:55:48
Speaker 1: the master, who returned with me and others of the company.
1:55:53
Speaker 1: How he dealt with others, or others with him, I
1:55:56
Speaker 1: know not. But my public proceeding gave such encouragement that
1:56:01
Speaker 1: it became so well apprehended by some few of the
1:56:04
Speaker 1: southern company as these projects were like. and he furnished
1:56:09
Speaker 1: from london with four ships at sea before they at
1:56:13
Speaker 1: plymouth had made any provision at all but only a
1:56:17
Speaker 1: ship chiefly set out by sir fair dunandal gurge which
1:56:22
Speaker 1: upon hunt's late treachery among the salvages returned as she
1:56:26
Speaker 1: went and did little or nothing but lost her time
1:56:31
Speaker 1: I must confess I was beholden to the setters forth
1:56:35
Speaker 1: of the four ships that went with Cooper, and that
1:56:38
Speaker 1: they offered me that employment if I would accept it,
1:56:42
Speaker 1: and I find my refusal hath incurred some of their displeasures,
1:56:47
Speaker 1: whose favour and love I exceedingly desire if I may
1:56:52
Speaker 1: honestly enjoy it. and though they do censure me as
1:56:56
Speaker 1: opposite to their proceedings they shall yet still in all
1:57:00
Speaker 1: my words and deeds find it is their error not
1:57:04
Speaker 1: my fault that occasions their dislike for having engaged myself
1:57:10
Speaker 1: in this business to the west country i had been
1:57:14
Speaker 1: very dishonest to have broke my promise nor will i
1:57:18
Speaker 1: spend more time in discovery or fishing till i may
1:57:22
Speaker 1: go with a company for plantation for i know my
1:57:27
Speaker 1: grounds yet every one that reads this book cannot put
1:57:31
Speaker 1: it in practice though it may help any that have
1:57:35
Speaker 1: seen those parts and though they endeavour to work me
1:57:39
Speaker 1: even out of my own designess i will not much
1:57:43
Speaker 1: envy their fortunes but i would be sorry Their intruding
1:57:48
Speaker 1: ignorance should, by their defilements, bring those certainties to doubtfulness.
1:57:54
Speaker 1: So that the business prosper, I have my desire, be
1:57:58
Speaker 1: it by Londoner, Scot, Welsh, or English, that are true
1:58:03
Speaker 1: subjects to our king and country. The good of my
1:58:07
Speaker 1: country is that I seek. and there is more than
1:58:10
Speaker 1: enough for all if they could be content but to
1:58:14
Speaker 1: proceed the occasion of my return' At last it pleased
1:58:21
Speaker 1: Sir Ferdinando Garge and Master Dr. Sutliff, Dean of Exeter,
1:58:27
Speaker 1: to conceive so well of these projects and my former employments,
1:58:32
Speaker 1: as induced them to make a new adventure with me
1:58:35
Speaker 1: in those parts, whether they have so often sent to
1:58:38
Speaker 1: their continual loss, by whose example many inhabitants of the
1:58:43
Speaker 1: West Country made promises of much more than was looked for.'
1:58:49
Speaker 1: but their private emulations quickly qualified that heat in a
1:58:53
Speaker 1: greater number so that the burden lay principally on them
1:58:57
Speaker 1: and some few gentlemen my friends in london in the
1:59:03
Speaker 1: end i was furnished with a ship of two hundred
1:59:07
Speaker 1: and another of fifty my re-embarkment encounters with pirates an
1:59:13
Speaker 1: imprisonment by the french But ere I had sailed a
1:59:19
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty leagues, she broke all her masts, pumping
1:59:24
Speaker 1: each watch five or six thousand strokes. Only her sprit
1:59:28
Speaker 1: sail remained to spoon before the wind, till we had
1:59:32
Speaker 1: re-accommodated a jury mast, and the rest, to return for Plymouth.
1:59:38
Speaker 1: My vice-admiral, being lost, not knowing of this, proceeded her voyage. Now,
1:59:45
Speaker 1: with the remainder of those provisions, I got out again
1:59:48
Speaker 1: in a small barque of sixty tons, with thirty men,
1:59:52
Speaker 1: for this of two hundred, and provision for seventy, which
1:59:56
Speaker 1: were the sixteen before named, and fourteen other sailors for
2:00:01
Speaker 1: the ship. With those I set sail again the twenty-fourth
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Speaker 1: of June, where what befell me, because my actions and
2:00:10
Speaker 1: writings are so public to the world, envy still seeking
2:00:14
Speaker 1: to scandalize my endeavours, and seeing no power but death
2:00:19
Speaker 1: can stop the chat of ill tongues or imagination of
2:00:23
Speaker 1: men's minds list my own relations of those hard events
2:00:29
Speaker 1: might by some constructors be made doubtful i have thought
2:00:33
Speaker 1: it best to insert the examinations of those proceedings taken
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Speaker 1: by sir lewis a worthy knight and vice-admiral of devonshire
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Speaker 1: WHICH WHEREAS FOLLOWETH. THE EXAMINATION OF DANIEL BAKER, LATE STEWARD
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Speaker 1: TO CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH, IN THE RETURN OF PLYMOUTH, TAKEN
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Speaker 1: BEFORE SIR LEWIS STOOKLEY, KNIGHT, THE 8TH OF DECEMBER, 1615.
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Speaker 1: captain fry his ship a hundred and forty tons thirty-six
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Speaker 1: cast-pieces and murderers eighty men of which forty or fifty
2:01:16
Speaker 1: were master gunners who seeth being chaste two days by
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Speaker 1: one fry an english pirate that could not board us
2:01:27
Speaker 1: by reason of foul weather edmund chambers the master john
2:01:32
Speaker 1: minter his mate thomas digby the pilot and others importuned
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Speaker 1: his said captain to yield holding it impossible he should
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Speaker 1: defend himself and that the said captain should send them
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Speaker 1: his boat in that they had none which at last
2:01:49
Speaker 1: he concluded upon these conditions that fry the pirate should
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Speaker 1: vow not to take any thing from captain smith that
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Speaker 1: might overthrow his voyage nor send more pirates into his
2:02:02
Speaker 1: ship than he liked off otherwise he would make sure
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Speaker 1: of them he had, and defend himself against the rest
2:02:10
Speaker 1: as he could. More, he confesseth that the quartermasters and
2:02:16
Speaker 1: chambers received gold of those pirates, but how much he
2:02:21
Speaker 1: knoweth not, nor would his captain come out of his
2:02:24
Speaker 1: cabin to entertain them, although a great many of them
2:02:27
Speaker 1: had been his sailors, and for his love would have
2:02:31
Speaker 1: wafted us to the isles of flowers. the one of
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Speaker 1: two hundred, the other twenty. At Foyle we were chased
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Speaker 1: by two French pirates who commanded us amain. Chambers, Minter, Digby,
2:02:48
Speaker 1: and others importuned again the captain to yield, alleging they
2:02:53
Speaker 1: were Turks and would make the most slaves, or Frenchmen
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Speaker 1: and would throw them all overboard if they shot but
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Speaker 1: a piece, and that they were entertained to fish and
2:03:04
Speaker 1: not to fight. until the captain vowed to fire the
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Speaker 1: powder and split the ship if they would not stand
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Speaker 1: to their defence whereby at last we went clear of
2:03:14
Speaker 1: them for all they shot the admiral a hundred and
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Speaker 1: forty tons twelve pieces twelve murderers ninety men with long
2:03:26
Speaker 1: pistols pocket pistols musket sword and poignard the vice-admiral hundred
2:03:33
Speaker 1: tons the rear admiral sixty the others eighty all had
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty men most armed as is said
2:03:44
Speaker 1: at flowers we were chased by four french men-of-war all
2:03:48
Speaker 1: with their close fights afore and after after this examinance
2:03:53
Speaker 1: captain having provided for our defence chambers minter digby and
2:03:59
Speaker 1: some others again importuned him to yield to the favour
2:04:03
Speaker 1: of those against whom there was nothing but ruin by fighting.
2:04:08
Speaker 1: But if he would go aboard them, in that he
2:04:10
Speaker 1: would speak French, by courtesy he might go clear. Seeing
2:04:15
Speaker 1: they offered him such fair quarter, and vowed they were Protestants,
2:04:19
Speaker 1: and all of Rochelle, and had the king's commission only
2:04:23
Speaker 1: to take Spaniards, Portugalis, and pirates, which at last he did,
2:04:28
Speaker 1: but they kept this examinant's captain and some other of
2:04:31
Speaker 1: his company with him. The next day the Frenchmen of
2:04:35
Speaker 1: war went aboard us, and took what they listed, and
2:04:38
Speaker 1: divided the company into their several ships, and manned this
2:04:42
Speaker 1: examined ship with the Frenchmen, and chased with her all
2:04:45
Speaker 1: the ships they saw, until, about five or six days after,
2:04:50
Speaker 1: upon better consideration, they surrendered the ship and vituals, with
2:04:55
Speaker 1: the most part of our provision, but not our weapons.
2:05:01
Speaker 1: THE GENTLEMEN AND SODIERS WERE EVER WILLING TO FIGHT. MORE,
2:05:07
Speaker 1: HE CONFESSETH THAT HIS CAPTAIN EXHORTED THEM TO PERFORM THEIR
2:05:10
Speaker 1: VOYAGE OR GO FOR NEW FOUND LAND TO RETURN FROTTED
2:05:14
Speaker 1: WITH FISH WHERE HE WOULD FIND MEANS TO PROCEED IN
2:05:17
Speaker 1: HIS PLANTATION. BUT CHAMBERS AND MINTER GREW UPON TERRAMS THEY
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Speaker 1: WOULD NOT UNTIL THOSE THAT WERE SODIERS CONCLUDED WITH THEIR
2:05:26
Speaker 1: CAPTAIN'S RESOLUTION THEY WOULD. seeing they had clothes victuals salt
2:05:33
Speaker 1: nets and line sufficient and expected their arms and such
2:05:38
Speaker 1: other things as they wanted the french promised to restore
2:05:42
Speaker 1: which the captain the next day went to seek and
2:05:45
Speaker 1: sent them about loading of commodities was powder match hooks
2:05:50
Speaker 1: instruments his sword and dagger bedding aqua vitae his commission
2:05:56
Speaker 1: apparel and many other things the particulars he remembereth not
2:06:02
Speaker 1: but as for the cloth canoes and the captain's cloth
2:06:06
Speaker 1: chambers and his associates divided it amongst themselves and to
2:06:11
Speaker 1: whom they best liked his captain not having any thing
2:06:15
Speaker 1: to his good knowledge but his waistcoat and breeches and
2:06:19
Speaker 1: in this manner going from ship to ship to regain
2:06:22
Speaker 1: our arms and the rest they seeing his sail GAVE
2:06:26
Speaker 1: CHASE UNTIL NIGHT. THE NEXT DAY, BEING VERY FOUL WEATHER,
2:06:30
Speaker 1: THIS EXAMINANT CAME SO NEAR WITH THE SHIP UNTO THE
2:06:34
Speaker 1: FRENCH MEN OF WAR THAT THEY SPLIT THE MAIN SAIL
2:06:37
Speaker 1: ON THE OTHER SPRETCH SAIL YARD. CHAMBERS WILLED THE CAPTAIN
2:06:41
Speaker 1: COME ABOARD OR HE WOULD LEAVE HIM, WHEREUPON THE CAPTAIN
2:06:45
Speaker 1: COMMANDED CHAMBERS TO SEND HIS BOAT FOR HIM. CHAMBERS REPLIED
2:06:50
Speaker 1: SHE WAS SPLIT, WHICH WAS FALSE, TELLING HIM HE MIGHT
2:06:53
Speaker 1: COME IF HE WOULD IN THE ADMIRAL'S BOAT. THE CAPTAIN'S
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Speaker 1: ANSWER WAS, HE COULD NOT COMMAND HER, NOR COME WHEN
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Speaker 1: HE WOULD, SO THIS EXAMINANT FELL UPON STERN, AND THAT
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Speaker 1: NIGHT LEFT HE SAID CAPTAIN ALONE AMONGST THE FRENCHMEN, IN
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Speaker 1: THIS MANNER, BY THE COMMAND OF CHAMBERS, MINTER, AND OTHERS.
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Speaker 1: DANIEL KEAGE, EDWARD STALLINGS, GENTLEMEN Walter Chiswick, David Cooper, Robert Miller,
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Speaker 1: and John Partridge being examined to acknowledge and confess that
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Speaker 1: Daniel Baker, his examination above written, is true. A double treachery.
2:07:37
Speaker 1: Now the cause why the French detained me again was
2:07:40
Speaker 1: the suspicion this Chambers and Minter gave them that I
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Speaker 1: would revenge myself upon the bunk or a new-found land
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Speaker 1: of all the French I could there encounter and how
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Speaker 1: I would have fired the ship had they not over-psuaded me,
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Speaker 1: and many other such-like tricks to catch but opportunity in
2:07:59
Speaker 1: this manner. of leave me and thus they returned to
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Speaker 1: plymouth and perforce with the french i thus proceeded a
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Speaker 1: fleet of nine french men-of-war and fights with the spaniards
2:08:15
Speaker 1: being a fleet of eight or nine sail we watched
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Speaker 1: for the west indies fleet till ill weather separated us
2:08:22
Speaker 1: from the other eight still we spent our time about
2:08:26
Speaker 1: the isles near fail where to keep my perplexed thoughts
2:08:30
Speaker 1: from too much meditation of my miserable estate i writ
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Speaker 1: this discourse thinking to have it sent you of his
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Speaker 1: majesty's counsel by some ship or other for i saw
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Speaker 1: their purpose was to take all they could. At last
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Speaker 1: we were chased by one Captain Barra, an English pirate,
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Speaker 1: in a small ship, with some twelve pieces of ordnance,
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Speaker 1: about thirty men, and near all starved. They sought, by courtesy,
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Speaker 1: relief of us, who gave them such fair promises, as
2:09:04
Speaker 1: at last we betrayed Captain Wollaston, his lieutenant, and four
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Speaker 1: or five of their men aboard us, and then provided
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Speaker 1: to take the rest by force. Now my part was
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Speaker 1: to be prisoner in the gun-room, and not to speak
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Speaker 1: to any of them upon my life. It had Barak
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Speaker 1: knowledge what I was. Then Barak, perceiving well these French intents,
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Speaker 1: made ready to fight, and Wollaston, as resolutely regarded not
2:09:31
Speaker 1: their threats, which gave us to mourir upon the matter longer,
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Speaker 1: some sixteen hours, and then return their prisoners, and some
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Speaker 1: vitriols also, upon a small composition. The next we took
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Speaker 1: was a small English man of Poole from Newfoundland. The
2:09:49
Speaker 1: great cabin at this present was my prison, from whence
2:09:53
Speaker 1: I could see them pillage those poor men of all
2:09:56
Speaker 1: that they had, and half their fish. When he was gone,
2:09:59
Speaker 1: they sold his poor clothes at the main mast by
2:10:03
Speaker 1: an outcry, which scarce gave each man seven pence apiece.
2:10:08
Speaker 1: Not long after, we took a scot fraught from St.
2:10:12
Speaker 1: Michael's to Bristol, HE HAD BETTER FORTUNE THAN THE OTHER, FOR,
2:10:16
Speaker 1: HAVING BUT TAKEN A BOAT LOADING OF SUGAR, MARMELADE, SUCKETS,
2:10:21
Speaker 1: AND SUCH LIKE, WE DESCRIBED FOUR SAIL AFTER WHOM WE STOOD, WHO,
2:10:26
Speaker 1: FALLING NEAR MAIN SAILS, ATTENDED US TO FIGHT. BUT OUR
2:10:30
Speaker 1: FRENCH SPIRITS WERE CONTENT ONLY TO PERCEIVE THEY WERE ENGLISH
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Speaker 1: RED CROSSES. WITHIN A VERY SMALL TIME AFTER, WE CHASED
2:10:38
Speaker 1: FOUR SPANISH SHIPS, CAME FROM THE INDIES, WE FOUGHT WITH
2:10:42
Speaker 1: THEM FOUR OR FIVE HOURS, tore their seals and sides
2:10:46
Speaker 1: yet not daring to board them lost them a prize
2:10:51
Speaker 1: worth sixteen thousand crowns a poor caroul of brazil was
2:10:57
Speaker 1: the next we chased and after a small fight thirteen
2:11:02
Speaker 1: or fourteen of our men being wounded which was the
2:11:05
Speaker 1: better half we took her with three hundred and seventy
2:11:08
Speaker 1: chests of sugar' a prize worth two hundred thousand crowns.'
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Speaker 1: The next was a West Indies man' of a hundred
2:11:19
Speaker 1: and sixty tons,' with twelve hundred hides,' twifty chests of cuchinelle,'
2:11:25
Speaker 1: fourteen coffers of wedges of silver,' eight thousand riles of eat,'
2:11:30
Speaker 1: and six coffers of the King of Spain's treasure,' besides
2:11:34
Speaker 1: the pillage and rich coffers' of many rich passengers.' Two
2:11:39
Speaker 1: months they kept me in this manner to manage their
2:11:42
Speaker 1: fights against the Spaniards and be a prisoner when they
2:11:45
Speaker 1: took any English. Now, though the captain had off-broke his
2:11:49
Speaker 1: promise which was to put me ashore on the Isles
2:11:53
Speaker 1: or the next ship he took, yet at last he
2:11:56
Speaker 1: was entreated I should go for France in a carouel
2:11:59
Speaker 1: of sugar, himself resolved still to keep the seas. Within
2:12:04
Speaker 1: two days after, we were hailed by two West Indymen,
2:12:08
Speaker 1: but when they saw us waive them for the king
2:12:10
Speaker 1: of france they gave us their broadsides shot through our
2:12:14
Speaker 1: main-mast and so left us having lived thus near three
2:12:18
Speaker 1: monneth amongst those french men of war with much ado
2:12:22
Speaker 1: we arrived at the gouillon not far from rochelle where
2:12:27
Speaker 1: instead of the great promises they always fed me with
2:12:30
Speaker 1: of double satisfaction and full content they kept me five
2:12:34
Speaker 1: or six days prisoner in the carouel accusing me to
2:12:38
Speaker 1: be him that burnt their colony in New France, to
2:12:42
Speaker 1: force me give them a discharge before the judge of
2:12:44
Speaker 1: the Admiralty, and so stand to their courtesy for satisfaction,
2:12:50
Speaker 1: or lie in prison, or a worse mischief. My escape
2:12:55
Speaker 1: from the Frenchmen To prevent this choice, in the end
2:13:00
Speaker 1: of such a storm, that beat them all under hatches,
2:13:04
Speaker 1: I watched my opportunity to get ashore in their boat,
2:13:08
Speaker 1: whereinto in the dark night i secretly got and with
2:13:12
Speaker 1: a half-pike that lay by me put adrift for the
2:13:16
Speaker 1: rat isle but the current was so strong and the
2:13:19
Speaker 1: sea so great i went adrift to sea till it
2:13:22
Speaker 1: pleased god the wind so turned with the tide that
2:13:26
Speaker 1: although i was all this fearful knight of gusts and
2:13:29
Speaker 1: rain in the sea the space of twelve hours when
2:13:33
Speaker 1: many ships were driven ashore and diverse split and being
2:13:37
Speaker 1: with sculling and baling the water-tide, I expected each minute
2:13:41
Speaker 1: would sink me. At last I arrived in an oasy
2:13:45
Speaker 1: isle by Charoney, where certain fellows found me near drowned
2:13:50
Speaker 1: and half-dead, with water, cold, and hunger. By those I
2:13:55
Speaker 1: found means to get to Rochelle, where I understood the
2:13:59
Speaker 1: man-of-war which we left at sea, and the rich prize
2:14:02
Speaker 1: was split. the captain drowned and half his company the
2:14:06
Speaker 1: same night within seven leagues of that place from whence
2:14:11
Speaker 1: i escaped alone in the little boat by the mercy
2:14:14
Speaker 1: of god far beyond all men's reason or my expectation
2:14:20
Speaker 1: arriving at rochelle upon my complaint to the judge of
2:14:24
Speaker 1: the admiralty i found many good words and fair promises
2:14:29
Speaker 1: and ere long many of them that escaped drowning told
2:14:33
Speaker 1: me the news they heard of my own death. These,
2:14:36
Speaker 1: I arresting their several examinations, did so confirm my complaint.
2:14:42
Speaker 1: It was held proof sufficient. Sir Thomas Edmonds All which
2:14:50
Speaker 1: being performed according to the order of justice from under
2:14:53
Speaker 1: the judge's hand, I presented it to the English ambassador
2:14:58
Speaker 1: then at Bordeaux, where it was my chance to see
2:15:01
Speaker 1: the arrival of the king's great marriage brought from Spain.
2:15:05
Speaker 1: Of the rock of the rich prize, some thirty-six thousand
2:15:08
Speaker 1: crowns worth of goods came ashore, and was saved with
2:15:12
Speaker 1: a carol, which I did my best to arrest. The
2:15:15
Speaker 1: judge did promise me I should have justice. What will
2:15:19
Speaker 1: be the conclusion as yet, I know not. They betrayed me,
2:15:26
Speaker 1: having the broad seal of England. and near twenty sail
2:15:30
Speaker 1: of English moor, besides them concealed, in like manner were
2:15:34
Speaker 1: betrayed that year. But under the colour to take pirates
2:15:40
Speaker 1: and West Indie men, because the Spaniards will not suffer
2:15:43
Speaker 1: the French trade in the West Indies, any goods from thence,
2:15:47
Speaker 1: though they take them upon the coast of Spain, a
2:15:50
Speaker 1: lawful prize, or from any of his territories out of
2:15:54
Speaker 1: the limits of Europe. My return for England, 1615. Leaving
2:16:03
Speaker 1: this my business in France, I returned to Plymouth to
2:16:07
Speaker 1: find them that had thus buried me amongst the French,
2:16:11
Speaker 1: and not only buried me, but with so much infamy,
2:16:15
Speaker 1: as such treacherous cowards could suggest to excuse their villainies.
2:16:19
Speaker 1: But my clothes, books, instruments, arms, and what I had,
2:16:25
Speaker 1: they shared amongst them, and what they liked, feigning the
2:16:29
Speaker 1: french had all was wanting and had thrown them into
2:16:32
Speaker 1: the sea taken their ship and all had they not
2:16:36
Speaker 1: run away and left me as they did the chieftains
2:16:39
Speaker 1: of this mutiny that i could find i laid by
2:16:43
Speaker 1: the heels the rest like themselves confessed the truth as
2:16:47
Speaker 1: you have heard now how i have or could prevent
2:16:51
Speaker 1: these accidents i rest at your censures but to the
2:16:56
Speaker 1: matter new-found land at the first i have heard was
2:17:01
Speaker 1: held as desperate a-fishing as this i project in new
2:17:05
Speaker 1: england placentia and the bank were also as doubtful to
2:17:10
Speaker 1: the french but for all the disasters happened me the
2:17:14
Speaker 1: business is the same it was and the five ships
2:17:18
Speaker 1: whereof one was reported more than three hundred tons went
2:17:21
Speaker 1: forward and found fish so much that neither iceland nor
2:17:26
Speaker 1: newfoundland man I could hear of hath been there, will
2:17:30
Speaker 1: go any more to either place, if they may go thither.
2:17:35
Speaker 1: The success of my vice-admiral, and the four ships of
2:17:39
Speaker 1: London from New England. So, that upon the return of
2:17:45
Speaker 1: my vice-admiral, that proceeded on her voyage, when I spent
2:17:49
Speaker 1: my masts, from plymouth this year are gone four or
2:17:52
Speaker 1: five sail and from london as many only to make
2:17:57
Speaker 1: voyages of profit for the englishmen have yet been all
2:18:01
Speaker 1: their returns together except sir francis would scarce make one
2:18:07
Speaker 1: a savour of near a dozen i could nominate though
2:18:11
Speaker 1: there be fish sufficient as i persuade myself to fraught
2:18:15
Speaker 1: yearly four or five hundred sail or as many as
2:18:19
Speaker 1: will go for this fishing stretcheth along the coast from
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Speaker 1: cape cod to new-found land which is seven or eight
2:18:28
Speaker 1: hundred miles at the least and hath his course in
2:18:31
Speaker 1: the deeps and by the shore all the year long
2:18:35
Speaker 1: keeping their hunts and feedings as the beasts of the
2:18:38
Speaker 1: field and the birds of the air but all men
2:18:42
Speaker 1: are not such as they should be that have undertaken
2:18:46
Speaker 1: those voyages and a man that hath but heard of
2:18:49
Speaker 1: an instrument can hardly use it so well as he
2:18:53
Speaker 1: that by use hath contrived to make it all the
2:18:56
Speaker 1: romanes were not scipios nor all the genoeses columbuses the
2:19:03
Speaker 1: old spaniards cotesises had they dived no deeper in the
2:19:08
Speaker 1: secrets of their discoveries than we or stopped at such
2:19:12
Speaker 1: doubts and poor accidental chances they had never been remembered
2:19:16
Speaker 1: as they are yet had they no such certainties to
2:19:19
Speaker 1: begin as we but to conclude adam and eve did
2:19:24
Speaker 1: first begin this innocent work to plant the earth to
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Speaker 1: remain to posterity but not without labour trouble and industry.
2:19:34
Speaker 1: Noah and his family began again the second plantation, and
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Speaker 1: their seed, as it still increased, hath still planted new countries,
2:19:44
Speaker 1: and one country another, and so the world to that
2:19:48
Speaker 1: estate it is, but not without much hazard, travel, discontents,
2:19:54
Speaker 1: and many disasters. HAD THOSE WORTHY FATHERS AND A MEMORABLE
2:19:59
Speaker 1: OFFSPRING NOT BEEN MORE DILIGENT FOR US NOW IN THESE
2:20:02
Speaker 1: AGES THAN WE ARE TO PLANT THAT YET UNPLANTED FOR
2:20:06
Speaker 1: THE AFTERLIVERS? HAD THE SEED OF ABRAHAM, OUR SAVIOUR CHRIST,
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Speaker 1: AND HIS APOSTLES HAD EXPOSED THEMSELVES TO NO MORE DANGERS
2:20:15
Speaker 1: TO TEACH THE GOSPEL AND THE WILL OF GOD THAN WE,
2:20:19
Speaker 1: EVEN WE OURSELVES, had at this present been a salvage,
2:20:24
Speaker 1: and as miserable as a most barbarous salvage, yet uncivilized.
2:20:29
Speaker 1: The Hebrews, and Lacedaemonians, the Goths, the Grecians, the Romanus,
2:20:35
Speaker 1: and the rest, what was it they would not undertake
2:20:39
Speaker 1: to enlarge their territories, enrich their subjects, resist their enemies?'
2:20:44
Speaker 1: Those that were the founders of those great monarchies and
2:20:47
Speaker 1: their virtues were no silvered, idle, golden Pharisees, but industrious,
2:20:53
Speaker 1: iron-steeled publicans. They regarded more provisions and necessaries for their
2:20:59
Speaker 1: people than jewels, riches, ease, or delight for themselves. Riches
2:21:05
Speaker 1: were their servants, not their masters. They ruled as fathers,
2:21:10
Speaker 1: not as tyrants, their people as children, not as slaves.
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Speaker 1: THERE WAS NO DISASTER COULD DISCOURAGE THEM, AND LET NONE
2:21:18
Speaker 1: THINK THEY ENCOUNTERED NOT WITH OLD MANNER OF INCUMBRANCES, AND
2:21:23
Speaker 1: WHAT HAVE EVER BEEN THE WORKS OF THE GREATEST PRINCES
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Speaker 1: OF THE EARTH, BUT PLANTING OF COUNTRIES AND CIVILIZING BARBAROUS
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Speaker 1: AND INHUMANE NATIONS TO CIVILITY AND HUMANITY, WHOSE ETERNAL ACTIONS
2:21:36
Speaker 1: FILL OUR HISTORIES. Lastly, the Portugalis and Spaniards, whose ever-living
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Speaker 1: actions before our eyes will testify with them our idleness
2:21:47
Speaker 1: and ingratitude to all posterities, and the neglect of our
2:21:50
Speaker 1: duties in our piety and religion, we owe our God,
2:21:53
Speaker 1: our King, and country, and of want charity to those
2:21:58
Speaker 1: poor salvagers, whose country we challenge, use, and possess. except
2:22:03
Speaker 1: we be but made to use and mar what our
2:22:06
Speaker 1: forefathers made or but only tell what they did or
2:22:11
Speaker 1: esteem ourselves too good to take the like pains was
2:22:16
Speaker 1: it virtue in them to provide that doth maintain us
2:22:20
Speaker 1: and baseness for us to do the like for others
2:22:24
Speaker 1: sorely no then seeing we are not born for ourselves
2:22:29
Speaker 1: but each to help other and our abilities are much
2:22:33
Speaker 1: alike at the hour of our birth and the minute
2:22:36
Speaker 1: of our death seeing our good deeds or our bad
2:22:40
Speaker 1: by faith in christ's merits is all we have to
2:22:43
Speaker 1: carry our souls to heaven or hell seeing honour is
2:22:47
Speaker 1: our life's ambition and our ambition after death to have
2:22:52
Speaker 1: an honourable memory of our life and seeing by no
2:22:55
Speaker 1: means we could be abated of the dignities and glories
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Speaker 1: of our predecessors, let us imitate their virtues to be
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Speaker 1: worthily their successors. FINIS At London, printed the 18th of June,
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Speaker 1: in the year of our Lord, 1616 End of Section
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Speaker 1: 5 A Description of New England Part 4 Recording by
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Speaker 1: Algie Pugg A Description of New England by Captain John
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Speaker 1: Smith This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Section
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Speaker 1: 6 Testimonial Verses Closing Set to his worthy captain the
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Speaker 1: author off thou hast led when i brought up the
2:24:00
Speaker 1: rear in bloody wars where thousands have been slain then
2:24:05
Speaker 1: give me leave in this some part to bear and
2:24:09
Speaker 1: as thy servant here to read my name tis true
2:24:13
Speaker 1: long time thou hast my captain been in the fierce
2:24:16
Speaker 1: wars of transsilvania long ere that thou america hadst seen
2:24:22
Speaker 1: O lead was captive in Virginia, Thou that to pass
2:24:26
Speaker 1: the world's four parts Dost deem no more than twere
2:24:30
Speaker 1: to go to bed or drink, And all that thou
2:24:33
Speaker 1: yet hast done Thou dost esteem as nothing. This does
2:24:37
Speaker 1: cause me think that thou I've seen so oft approved
2:24:40
Speaker 1: in dangers, And thrice captive thy valour still hath freed,
2:24:45
Speaker 1: Art yet preserved to convert those strangers, By God thy guide.
2:24:51
Speaker 1: I trust it is decreed. For me I not commend,
2:24:55
Speaker 1: But much admire thy England, Yet uncannone to pass us
2:24:58
Speaker 1: by her, For it will praise itself in spite of me,
2:25:03
Speaker 1: Thou it, it thou, to all posterity. Your true friend,
2:25:09
Speaker 1: and so dear, Edward Robinson. To my honest captain, the author.
2:25:17
Speaker 1: Malignant times! What can be said or done, But shall
2:25:22
Speaker 1: be censured and reduced by some. This worthy work, Which
2:25:27
Speaker 1: thou hast bought so dear, Nay thou, nor it, detractors
2:25:31
Speaker 1: need to fear. Thy words by deed so long thou
2:25:35
Speaker 1: hast approved, Of thousands know thee not, thou art beloved,
2:25:39
Speaker 1: And this great plot will make thee Ten times more
2:25:42
Speaker 1: canoned and beloved Than e'er thou wert before. I never
2:25:47
Speaker 1: knew a warrior yet But thee, from wine, tobacco, debts, dice,
2:25:52
Speaker 1: oaths so free, I call thee warrior, and I make
2:25:57
Speaker 1: the boulder, For many a captain now was ne'er so dear.
2:26:02
Speaker 1: Some such may swell at this, but to their praise,
2:26:06
Speaker 1: When they have done like thee, my muse shall raise
2:26:09
Speaker 1: Their due deserts to worldies yet to come, To live
2:26:13
Speaker 1: like thine admired till day of doom. your true friend,
2:26:19
Speaker 1: sometimes your soldier, Thomas Carlton. End of Section 6 Testimonial
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Speaker 1: Verses Closing Set End of A Description of New England
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Speaker 1: by Captain John Smith Recording by Algie Pugg