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

to the other side, and came to anchor on the south side at 41 degrees and several minutes; here we went ashore in a bay, naming it Whitson's Bay, after the Honorable Mr. John Whitson, then Mayor of Bristol and a prominent merchant; not far from there we found a pleasant height, which we named Mount Aldworth, after a Mr. Robert Aldworth, who had greatly advanced this voyage both with his purse and further care.

Sassafras found. Here we found the quantity of Sassafras. But when we had looked over the place and the people well, it was deemed advisable to throw up a small breastwork, in order to keep a good watch from within, and to be able to warn and call for help from our men who would be working in the wood. While we were on land here, the inhabitants came to our men, sometimes 10, 20, 40, or 60, and at another time 120 at once, whom we treated kindly, and presented with some trifles; they ate peas and beans with our men, but otherwise lived mostly on fish.

Found entertainment in playing on the cithern. We had in our company a boy who could play the cithern a stringed instrument similar to a guitar; they had great pleasure in this, and gave him tobacco, tobacco pipes, snake skins 6 feet long, used by them as belts, also deer skins, and the like, and they danced in a circle of 20 people, having the cithern in the middle; this happened with many wild and fierce jumps, and while singing "yo, ya, yo, ya, ja, yo"; whoever broke the circle first was mocked and beaten by the others. Among these wild men were some who had a copper plate, a foot long and half a foot wide, hanging on their chest. Their weapons were bows of hazel wood, 5 or 6 feet long, which were painted black and yellow, with triple bowstrings, and thus much larger than those used by us; their arrows