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

Fishes.

And just as the land is full of God's gifts, so is the sea likewise filled with an abundance of all sorts of precious fish. In the month of June, we found so much cod on this coast that one could have loaded many ships with it, as well as porpoises, for making oil, bream, turbot, mackerel, herring, sea crabs, lobsters, and mussels or oysters, which contained small pearls.

Send their small Bark with Sassafras to England.

Around the end of July, we had loaded our small bark, the Discoverer, with Sassafras and sent it ahead to England, to thus give the ship-owners quick satisfaction; it arrived safely in Kingrode 14 days before us. After its departure, we did our best to also take in the cargo for our ship.

Indians attack the workers gathering Sassafras.

Meanwhile, it happened that one afternoon, while our woodcutters were taking a nap, as they were accustomed to do for two hours during the heat of the day, about 140 wild men armed with bows and arrows came upon our house,
While they were sleeping.

which was occupied by only four musketeers who were standing guard. They wanted our men to come out to them, but they stayed at their post. Our skipper, a very ingenious and cautious man, having no more than two men on the ship, did what he could to avoid being surprised by the wild men and fired a cannon to strike fear into the Indians and to warn our men who were sleeping in the woods.
How they escaped this danger.

By this, they were somewhat awakened and began to call their large and fearsome mastiffs, Foul and Gallant, but then went back to sleep peacefully. However, warned by a second cannon shot, they rose up, grabbed their weapons and tools, and ran with their dogs—one of which had a half-pike in its mouth—toward the ship. The Indians, seeing them from afar with their dogs,