the fresh.  This river makes two excellent Bayes, for 300 sayle of Shippes of 1000. tunne, to harbour in with great safety.  The one Bay we named Saint George’s; the other (and more inward) Saint Marie’s.  The King of Yaocomico, dwells on the left-hand or side thereof:  & we tooke vp our Seate on the right, one mile within the land.  It is as braue a piece of ground to set down on as most is in the Countrey, & I suppose as good, (if not much better) than the primest parcel of English ground.

Our Town we call Saint Marie’s; and to auoid all iust occasion of offence, & collour of wrong, wee bought of the King for Hatchets, Axes, Howes, and Cloathes, a quantitie of some 30 miles of Land, which wee call Augusta Carolina; And that which made them the more willing to sell it, was the warres they had with the Sasqusa-han-oughs,[3] a mighty bordering nation, who came often into their Countrey, to waste & destroy; & forced many of them to leaue their Countrey, and passe ouer Patoemeck to free themselues from perill before wee came.  God no doubt disposing all this for them, who were to bring his law and light among the Infidells.  Yet, seeing wee came soe well prepared with armes, their feare was much lesse, & they could be content to dwell by vs:  Yet doe they daily relinquish their houses, lands, & Cornefields, & leaue them to vs.  Is not this a piece of wonder that a nation, which a few dayes before was in armes with the rest against vs, should yeeld themselues now vnto vs like lambes, & giue vs their houses, land & linings, for a trifle? Digitus Dei est hic:  and surely some great good is entended by God to his Nation.  Some few families of Indians, are permitted to stay by vs till next yeere, & then the land is free....

And now to returne to the place itself, chosen for our plantation.  Wee have been vpon it but one month, and therefore can make no large relation of it.  Yet thus much I can say of it allready; For our own safety, we haue built a good strong Fort or Palizado, & haue mounted vpon it one good piece of Ordnance, and 4 Murderers, and haue seuen pieces of Ordnance more, ready to mount forthwith.  For our prouision, heere is some store of Peasen, and Beanes, and Wheate left on the ground by the Indians, who had satisfaction for it.

Wee haue planted since wee came, as much Maize (or Indian Wheate) as will suffice (if God prosper it) much more company than we haue.  It is vp about knee high aboue ground allready, and wee expect return of 1000. for one, as wee have reason for our hope, from the experience of the yeelde in other parts of this Countrey, as is very credibly related to vs.

Wee haue also English Peasen, & French-beanes, Cotten, Oringes, Limons, Melocotunes, Apples, Peares, Potatos, and Sugar-Canes of our owne planting, beside Hortage comming vp very finely.

But such is the quantity of Vines and Grapes now allready vpon them (though young) as I dare say if wee had Vessells and skill, wee might make many a tonne of Wine, euen from about our Plantation; and such Wine, as those of Virginia say (for yet we can say nothing) as is as good as the Wine of Spaine.  I feare they exceede; but surely very good.  For the Clime of this Countrey is neere the same with Sivill and Corduba:  lying betweene 38 & 40 degrees of Northerlie latitude.