The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part IHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part I
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
the sea waxing rough, wee sayling 4 dayes with the wind the powp, and at
length discouering land, were afraid to approch nere vnto it, the sea being
growen, and we not knowing what land it was: but God so prouided for vs,
that the wind ceasing there came a great calme. Wherefore some of our
company rowing to land with oares, returned and brought vs newes to our
great comfort, that they had found a very good countrey and a better
harborough: [Sidenote: 100 men sent to discrie the countrey.] vpon which
newes we towed our ships and smal barks to land, and being entred into the
harborough, we saw a farre off a great mountain, that cast forth smoke,
which gaue vs good hope that we should finde some inhabitants in the
Island, neither would Zichmni rest, although it were a great way off, but
sent 100 souldiers to search the countrey and bring report what people they
were that inhabited it, and in the meane time they tooke in wood and water
for the prouision of the fleete, and catcht great store of fish and sea
foule and found such abundance of birds egges that our men that were halfe
famished, were filled therewithall. Whiles we were riding here, began the
moneth of Iune, at which time the aire in the Island was so temperate and
pleasant, as is impossible to express; but when we could see no people at
al, we suspected greatly that this pleasant place was desolate and
dishabited; We gaue name to the hauen calling it Trin, and the point that
stretched out into the sea, we called Capo de Trin. [Sidenote: The 100
souldiers returned which had bene through the Island, report what they saw
and found.] The 100 souldiers that were sent forth, 8 dayes after returned,
and brought word that they had bene through the Island and at the
mountaine, and that the smoke was a naturall thing proceeding from a great
fire that was in the bottome of the hill, and that there was a spring from
which issued a certaine water like pitch which ran into the sea, and that
thereabouts dwelt great multitudes of people halfe wilde, hiding themselues
in caues of the ground, of small stature, and very fearefull: for as soone
as they saw them they fled into their holes, and that there was a great
riuer and a very good and safe harborough. Zichmni being thus informed, and
seeing that it had a holesome and pure aire, and a very fruitfull soyle and
faire riuers, with sundry commodities, fell into such liking of the place,
that he determined to inhabite it, and built there a citie. But his people
being weary and faint with long and tedious trauell began to murmure,
saying that they would returne into their countrey, for that the winter was
at hand, and if they entred into the harborough, they should not be able to
come out againe before the next Summer. Wherefore he retaining onely the
barks with Oares and such as were willing to stay with him, sent all the
rest with the shippes backe againe, [Sidenote: M. Antonio Zeno, made chiefe
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