Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 64419-h.htm or 64419-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/64419/64419-h/64419-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/64419/64419-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/talesofoldseapor00munro Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of Part I, II and III. Basic fractions are displayed as ½ ⅓ ¼ etc; other fractions are shown in the form a/b, for example 21/95. Display of Lat./Long. coordinates has been made consistent, with no space between the values, but with a space before N/S/E/W if present, for example 12°34′56″ N. Changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. TALES OF AN OLD SEA PORT A GENERAL SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND, INCLUDING, INCIDENTALLY, AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES OF THE NORSEMEN, SO FAR AS THEY MAY HAVE BEEN CONNECTED WITH NARRAGANSETT BAY: AND PERSONAL NARRATIVES OF SOME NOTABLE VOYAGES ACCOMPLISHED BY SAILORS FROM THE MOUNT HOPE LANDS by WILFRED HAROLD MUNRO Of Brown University Princeton University Press Princeton London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1917 Copyright, 1917, by Princeton University Press Published November, 1917 Printed in the United States of America [Illustration: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (colophon)] CONTENTS PAGE Introduction: Old Bristol 1 Part I--Simeon Potter and the Prince Charles of Lorraine 1--Simeon Potter 37 2--Letter of Father Fauque 48 Part II--Norwest John and the Voyage of the Juno 1--Norwest John 97 2--Voyage of the Juno 100 Part III--James de Wolf and the Privateer Yankee 1--James De Wolf 205 2--Journal of the Yankee 225 Index 289 TALES OF AN OLD SEA PORT INTRODUCTION: OLD BRISTOL From the earliest days of the Plymouth Colony the name Mount Hope Lands has been applied to the peninsula in Narragansett Bay of which Bristol, Rhode Island, is the chief town. The history of this town is more crowded with notable incident than that of any other in New England. First and most picturesque is the story of the Norsemen. Around Mount Hope the legends of the Norsemen cluster, shadowy, vague, elusive, and yet altogether fascinating. Only legends they are and must remain.