The first four of the following extracts are from Smith's ‘Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles’ (edition of 1626), pp. 39-49. The next four are from the ‘Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia,’ by William Strachey, secretary of the Virginia Colony. Reprinted by the Hakluyt Society (1849), pp. 49-52, 57, 58, 80, 81, 110, II. The ninth is from the ‘Generall Historie,’ p. 219. The tenth is from ‘A Description of New England, by Captain John Smith,’ printed in the Massachusetts Historical Collections, 3d series, vol. VI. pp. 109, 121. The eleventh is from the ‘Generall Historie,’ pp. 121-123. The last two are from ‘Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of New England or anywhere, by Captaine John Smith, sometimes Governour of Virginia, and Admirall of New England.’ London, 1631. Reprinted in Mass. Hist. Coll., 3d series, vol. III. pp. 7, 29, 30, 44. There is a memoir of Captain Smith, by G. S. Hillard, in Sparks's ‘American Biography,’ vol. II.
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