had, and offered to lay a great box of pearl in gage. for them; but we refused it for this time, because we would not make them know that we esteemed thereof, until we had understood in what places of the country the pearl grew; which now your Worship doth very well understand. He was very just of his promise; for many times we delivered him merchandize upon his word, but ever he came within the day and performed his promise. He sent us every day a brace or two of fat bucks, conies, hares, fish, the best of the world. He sent us divers kinds of fruits, melons, walnuts, cucumbers, gourds, peas, and divers roots and fruits very excellent good, and of their country corn, which is very white, fair, and well tasted, and groweth three times in five months; in May they sow, in July they reap; in June they sow, in August they reap; in July they sow, in September they reap. They only cast the corn into the ground, breaking a little of the soft turf with a wooden mattock or pick-axe; ourselves proved the soil, and put some of our peas in the ground, and in ten days they were of fourteen inches high; they have also beans very fair of divers colours, and wonderful plenty; some growing naturally, and some in their gardens, and so have they both wheat and oats. The soil is the most plentiful, sweet, fruitful, and wholesome, of all the world; there are above fourteen several sweet-smelling timbertrees, and the most part of their underwoods are

bays, and such like; they have those oaks that we have, but far greater and better.

• After they had been divers times aboard our ships, myself, with seven more, went twenty miles into the river that runneth toward the city of Shicoak, which river they call Occam; and the evening following we came to an island which they call Roanoke, distant from the harbour by which we entered seven leagues; and at the north end thereof was a village of nine houses, built of cedar, and for. tified round-about with sharp trees to keep out their enemies, and the entrance into it made like a turnpike very artificially. When we came toward it, standing near unto the water's side, the wife of Granganimeo, the king's brother, came running out to meet us very cheerfully and friendly, her husband was not then in the village; some of her people she commanded to draw our boat on shore for the beating of the billow; others she appointed to carry us on their backs to the dry ground, and others to bring our oars into the house for fear of stealing. When we were come into the outward room, having five rooms in her house, she caused us to sit down by a great fire, and after took off our clothes and washed them, and dried them again; some of the women plucked off our stockings and washed them, some washed our feet in warm water, and she herself took great pains to see all things ordered in the best manner she could, making great paste to dress some meat for us to eat.

After we had thus dried ourselves she brought us into the inward room, where she set on the board standing along the house some wheat like furmenty; sodden venison, and roasted; fish sodden, boiled, and roasted; melons raw and sodden; roots of divers kinds, and divers fruits. Their drink is commonly water, but while the grape lasteth they drink wine; and, for want of casks to keep it, all the year after they drink water, but it is sodden with ginger in it and black cinnamon, and sometimes sassaphras, and divers other wholesome and medicinable herbs and trees. We were entertained with all love and indness, and with as much bounty (after their manner) as they could possibly devise. We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age. The people only care how to defend themselves from the cold in their short winter, and to feed themselves with such meat as the soil affordeth; their meat is very well sodden, and they make broth very sweet and savory; their vessels are earthen pots, very large, white and sweet, their dishes are wooden platters of sweet timber; yithin the place where they feed was their lodging, and within that their idol which they worship, of whom they speak incredible things.

• While we were at meat there came in at the gates two or three men with their bows and arrows from hunting, whom when we espied we began to look one toward another, and offered to reach our

weapons; but as soon as she espied our mistrust, she was very much moved, and caused some of her men to run out, and take away their bows and arrows and break them, and withal beat the poor fellows out of the gate again. When we departed in the evening, and would not tarry all night, she was very sorry, and gave us into our boat our supper half dressed, pots and all, and brought us to our boat side, in which we lay all night, removing the same a pretty distance from the shore. She, perceiving our jealousy, was much grieved, and sent divers men, and thirty women, to sit all night on the bank-side by us, and sent us into our boats fine mats to cover us from the rain, using very many words to intreat us to rest in their houses; but because we were few men, and if we had miscarried the voyage had been in very great danger, we durst not adventure any thing, although there was no cause of doubt; for a more kind and loving people there cannot be found in the world, as far as we have hitherto had trial.

• Beyond this island there is the main land, and over-against this island falleth into this spacious water, the great river called Occam by the inhabitants, on which standeth a town called Pomeioc; and six days journey from the same is situate their greatest city, called Shicoak, which this people affirm to be very great; but the savages were never at it, only they speak of it by the report of their fathers

and other men, whom they have heard affirm it to be above one hour's journey about.

Into this river falleth another great river called Cipo, in which there is found great store of muscles in which there are pearls. Likewise there descendeth into this Occam, another river called Nomopana, on the one side whereof standeth a great town called Chawanook, and the lord of that town and country is called Pooneno; this Pooneno is not subject to the king of Wingandacoa, but is a free lord. Beyond this country is there another king, whom they call Menatonon, and these three kings are in league with each other. Toward the south-west, four days journey, is situate a town called Secotan, which is the southermost town of Wingandacoa, near unto which, six-and-twenty years past, there was a ship cast away, whereof some of the people were saved, and those were white people, whom the country people preserved. And after ten days remaining in an out-island uninhabited, called Wocokon, they, with the help of some of the dwellers of Secotan, fastened two boats of the country together, and made masts unto them, and sails of their shirts, and having taken into them such victuals as the country yielded, they departed, after they had remained in this out-island three weeks; but shortly after, it seemed they were cast away, for the boats were found upon the coast, cast a-land in another island adjoining.