For my _Sea Grammar_ (caused to be Printed by my worthy Friend, Sir _Samuel Saltenstall_) hath found such good Entertainment abroad, that I have been importuned by many noble Persons, to let this also pass the Press. Many of the most eminent Warriours, and others, what their Swords did, their Pens writ: Though I be never so much their inferiour, yet I hold it no great Errour, to follow good Examples; nor repine at them will do the like. And now, _My most Honourable good Lords,_ I know not to whom I may better Present it, than to your Lordships, whose Friendships, as I conceive, are as much to each others, as my Duty is to you all; and because you are acquainted both with my Endeavours, and Writings, I doubt not, but your Honours will as well accept of this, as of the rest, and Patronize it under the shadow of your most noble Virtues, which I am ever bound in all Duty to Reverence, and under which I hope to have shelter, against all Storms that dare threaten, _Yours Honours to be Commanded,_ John Smith. * * * * * THE TRUE TRAVELS, ADVENTURES, AND OBSERVATIONS OF Captain _JOHN SMITH,_ * * * * * CHAP. I. _His Birth; Apprenticeship; Going into_ France; _His beginning with Ten Shillings and three Pence; His Service in the_ Netherlands; _His bad Passage into_ Scotland; _His return to_ Willoughby, _and how he lived in the Woods._