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

The guile and malice of the wild ones.

which they feared most, played the hypocrite and pretended that everything was done only in jest; therefore, they departed again with a polite farewell. But not long after, even the day before our departure, they set fire to the woods where our people were going to cut wood, which we saw burning for at least a mile. And on the day we lifted our anchor, they came toward us on the seaside in greater numbers—by estimation about 200 strong—and some of them with their boats near our ship, wanting us to return to land with them. However, we refused them and would not trade with them in the slightest.

Pring departs for England.

From a convenient Harbor.

On the 8th or 9th of August, we departed from that excellent harbor, where we found 20 fathoms of water at its entrance and could easily lie anchored on both sides of the land in 7 fathoms of water, as the harbor runs almost round like a snail shell. This harbor is at the northern latitude of 41 degrees, 25 minutes.

By high lands are the best harbors;

Sassafras in sandy soils.

I must not forget, however, that our captain headed so far north because he thought to find high lands, where the best harbors are usually located, in which he saw his expectations fulfilled. We also noticed that one could not find Sassafras other than in sandy soil.

Arrive near the English coast in 5 weeks.

On our return journey, for certain reasons, we took our course to the latitude of 38 degrees near the Azores and thus arrived near the coast of England in the time of five weeks from our harbor in Virginia. But because the east winds held us up here for a long time, it was the 2nd of October, 1603, before we arrived in Kingrode.

How long they had been out.

The Discoverer had been out for five and a half months, and the Speed-well for a period of six months.

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