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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, Book XI : Captain John Smith in Virginia (A. D. 1606 -1631 .) (search)
Book XI: Captain John Smith in Virginia (A. D. 1606-1631.)
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,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 13 (search)
Book XIII: Henry Hudson and the New Netherlands.
(A. D. 1609-1626.)
The extracts relating to Henry Hudson are reprinted from a very valuable book, containing many original documents in regard to him, and entitled Henry Hudson the Navigator.
The original documents in which his career is recorded . . . with an Introduction by G. M. Asher, Ll.D. London, Hakluyt Society, 1859, pp. 77-93, 174-179, 117-123.
The same narratives may be found in Purchas's Pilgrims, vol.
III.
There is a Lif ds, thence to the Indian Islands, then towards the mainland of Virginia, steering right across, leaving in fourteen days the Bahamas on the left, and the Bermudas on the right hand, where the winds are variable with which the land is made ....
[1626.] In our preceding treatise, we made mention of New Netherland and its colony, planted by the West India Company, situate in Virginia on the river, called by the French Montagne, and by us Mauritius, and that some families were sent thither, which