Scheeps-togt van Martin Pringe, gedaan in 't jaar 1603. Van Bristol na 't noorder-gedeelte van Virginien....

Fox Island.

We sailed to the south-western coast of these islands, and lay with our ships under one of the largest; one of them we named Fox Island, because we found that type of beast there.

Between all these islands, we sailed with our boats to the mainland, which lies in large part North-East and South-West; we found between them a convenient place to anchor in 6, 7, 8, 10, and 12 fathoms of water.

The mainland.

Finally, we arrived at the mainland at 43 and a half degrees, lying to the South-West of us. In this sailing, we found 4 inland waters or rivers; the most easterly had a sandbank at the mouth, but having passed over it, we sailed up the same for 5 miles, and found it to be 7 fathoms deep for a time; sailing back, we discovered two other inland waters to the South-West, but we did not notice them going far inland; the fourth, which lay more to the West, was indeed the best, and we sailed up it for 10 or 12 miles.

Found no people, but trees and all sorts of beasts.

In all these places we found not one human being, but indeed signs of fire where they had been; meanwhile we saw very lovely groves, full of tall oaks, beeches, pine, and fir trees, as also hazel trees and mast-wood; we also saw many kinds of beasts, such as stags, roe deer, bears, wolves, foxes, lynxes original: "Lossen", and sharp-nosed dogs. But as we found no Sassafras a medicinal tree bark highly valued at the time here, we departed from this coast and all these islands, and sailed to the Wild Men's Rock original: "Der Wilden Rots", discovered the previous year by Captain Gosnold; landing there, we indeed found people, but as there was no Sassafras to be found, we did not stay there long. From there we came into that great bay or gulf, which Captain Gosnold had sailed past the year before, where we found people on the north side, but not finding what we had expected, we sailed