{Transcriber's Note: Archaic typography which displays the letter "s" in a form that resembles the letter "f" has been transposed to the modern "s." British, archaic and inconsistent spellings have been left as in the original, as have capitalization and italicisation. A few obvious typographical errors have been changed. Margin notes are indicated where they occur in the text with {MN} and inserted in full at the end of the paragraph to which they refer.} * * * * * THE TRUE TRAVELS, ADVENTURES, AND OBSERVATIONS, OF Captain JOHN SMITH, INTO EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, and AMERICA, From Ann. Dom. 1593. to 1629. * * * * * * * * * * To the Right Honourable _WILLIAM_ Earl of _PEMBROKE,_ Lord Steward of His Majesty's most Honourable Houshold. _ROBERT_ Earl of _LINDSEY,_ Great Chamberlain of _England,_ _HENRY_ Lord _HUNSDON,_ Viscount _ROCHFORD,_ Earl of _DOVER,_ _And all your Honourable Friends and Well-willers._ My Lords, Sir _Robert Cotton,_ that most Learned Treasurer of Antiquity, having by perusal of my General History, and others, found that I had likewise undergone divers other as hard hazards in the other Parts of the World, requested me to fix the whole Course of my Passages in a Book by it self, whose noble Desire I could not but in part satisfie; the rather, because they have acted my fatal Tragedies upon the Stage, and racked my Relations at their Pleasure. To prevent therefore all future Misprisions, I have compiled this true Discourse. Envy hath taxed me to have writ too much, and done too little; but that such should know, how little I esteem them, I have writ this, more for the satisfaction of my Friends, and all generous and well disposed Readers. To speak only of my self were intolerable Ingratitude; because, having had so many Co-Partners with me; I cannot make a Monument for my self, and leave them unburied in the Fields, whose Lives begot me the Title of a Soldier; for as they were Companions with me in my Dangers, so shall they be partakers with me in this Tomb.