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

Sailing along the same.

the Tower of London, took it for the Bermudas; coming close to the land, we took soundings several times, but found no bottom; however, we finally reached good ground at 14 or 15 fathoms. Here we let our anchor fall, and lifted it again the next morning; we sailed along the land and sounded continuously, but when we were a cable's length from our mooring place, we found no bottom at 40 or 50 fathoms; we held close to the land, but did not yet know which island it was.

Indians come to trade with them.

On the 16th, in the morning, we became aware of people from the land coming toward us; as they came near our ship, they called to us that they were coming to trade or carry on commerce with us; having arrived close to our board, they made a sign that they were eager to see the color of our flags; to which we immediately let our flag fly from the mainmast and called to them that we were Ingleses, Amigos, en Hermanos English, friends, and brothers. As soon as they understood that we were English, they came toward us more boldly; we threw them a rope, by which one of them came on board; In what the trade consisted. subsequently, we began to trade with them and gave them, in exchange for tobacco, pineapples, plantains, pumpkins, and whatever else they had brought with them, some beads, knives, small whistles, and other trifles.

We were now lying close to the land: when they had passed everything from their canoe to us, they drank of our beer and went back to land, having been well treated; whereupon several other canoes immediately came toward us, with whom we likewise traded and treated them This was the island of St. Lucia. just like the first; from one of them we were told that this was the island of Santa Lucia. That whole forenoon we tacked against the wind,