and if they would join together, now to work upon Soap, Ashes, Iron, Rape-Oil, Mader, Pitch and Tarr, Flax and Hemp; as for their Tobacco, there comes from many Places such abundance, and the charge so great, it is not worth the bringing home. * * * * * {MN-1} _The present estate of_ Virginia 1629. {MN-2} _Mr._ Hutchins. _Five thousand people. Five thousand Cattel. Goats, Hogs, and Poultry infinite._ {MN-3} _Good Hospitality._ {MN-4} _Commodities worth making, Black Wallnut, Also for Pikes, Oak for Planks, knees for ships, Cypress, for Chests, &c._ There is gone, and now a going, divers Ships, as Captain _Perse,_ Captain _Prine,_ with Sir _John Harvey_ to be their Governour, with two or three Hundred People; there is also some from _Bristow,_ and other Parts of the West Country a preparing, which I heartily pray to God to Bless, and send them a Happy and Prosperous Voyage. _Nathaniel Causie,_ Master _Hutchins,_ Master _Floud, John Davis, William Emerson,_ Master _William Barnet,_ Master _Cooper,_ and others. * * * * * CHAP. XXII. _The proceedings and present estate of the_ Summer Isles, _from_ Anno Dom. 1624, _to this present_ 1629. From the _Summer Isles,_ Mr. _Ireland,_ and divers others report, their Forts, Ordnance and Proceedings, are much as they were in the Year 1622. as you may read in the General History, Pag. 199. Captain _Woodhouse_ Governour. There are few sorts of any Fruits in the West Indies, but they grow there in abundance; yet the fertility of the Soil in many Places decayeth, being Planted every Year, for their Plantains, which is a most delicate Fruit, they have lately found a way by Pickling or Drying them, to bring them over into _England,_ there being no such Fruit in _Europe,_ and wonderful for increase. For Fish, Flesh, Figgs, Wine, and all sorts of most excellent Herbs, Fruits and Roots they have in abundance. In this Governour's time, a kind of Whale, or rather a Jubarta, was driven on Shoar in _Southampton_ Tribe from the West, over an Infinite Number of Rocks so bruised, that the Water in the Bay where she lay, was all Oily, and the Rocks about it all Bedasht with Parmacitty, congealed like Ice, a good quantity we gathered, with which we commonly cured any Boil, Hurt or Bruise; some burnt it in their Lamps, which blowing out, the very snuff will burn so long as there is any of the Oil remaining, for two or three days together. {MN} * * * * * {MN} _The present Estate of the_ Summer Isles.