The tenth, faire weather, we rode still till twelve of the clocke.  Then we weighed and went over, and found it shoald all the middle of the river, for wee could finde but two fathoms and a halfe and three fathomes for the space of a league; then wee came to three fathomes and foure fathomes, and so to seven fathomes, and anchored, and rode all night in soft ozie ground.  The banke is sand.

The eleventh was faire and very hot weather.  At one of the clocke in the after-noone wee weighed and went into the river, the wind at south south-west, little winde.  Our soundings were seven, sixe, five, sixe, seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve, thirteene, and fourteene fathomes.  Then it shoalded againe, and came to five fathomes.  Then wee anchored, and saw that it was a very good harbour for all windes, and rode all night.  The people of the country came aboord of us, making shew of love, and gave us tabacco and Indian wheat, and departed for that night, but we durst not trust them.

The twelfth, very faire and hot.  In the afternoone, at two of the clocke, wee weighed, the winde being variable betweene the north and the north-west.  So we turned into the river two leagues and anchored.  This morning, at our first rode in the river, there came eight and twentie canoes full of men, women and children to betray us:  but we saw their intent, and suffered none of them to come aboord of us.  At twelve of the clocke they departed.  They brought with them oysters and beanes, whereof wee bought some.  They have great tabacco pipes of yellow copper, and pots of earth to dresse their meate in.  It floweth south-east by south within.

The thirteenth, faire weather, the wind northerly.  At seven of the clocke in the morning, as the floud came we weighed, and turned foure miles into the river.  The tide being done wee anchored.  Then there came foure canoes aboord:  but we suffered none of them to come into our ship.  They brought great store of very good oysters aboord, which we bought for trifles.[6] In the night I set the variation of the compasse, and found it to be 13 degrees.  In the after-noone we weighed, and turned in with the floud, two leagues and a halfe further, and anchored all night; and had five fathoms soft ozie ground; and had an high point of land, which shewed out to us, bearing north by east five leagues off us.

The fourteenth, in the morning, being very faire weather, the wind south-east, we sayled up the river twelve leagues, and had five fathoms, and five fathoms and a quarter lesse; and came to a streight betweene two points,[7] and had eight, nine, and ten fathoms; and it attended north-east by north, one league:  and wee had twelve, thirteene, and fourteene fathomes.  The river is a mile broad:  there is very high land on both sides.  Then we went up north-west, a league and an halfe deepe water.  Then north-east by north, five miles; then north-west by north, two leagues, and anchored.  The land grew very high and mountainous.  The river is full of fish.