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

we had a reasonable breeze and sailed North-West and North-North-West. The 18th, 19th, and 20th following days we had a sturdy breeze and sailed North-North-West. Now we cast our lead and looked out for land, but we found no bottom and saw no land, so that we feared being driven too far off-course by the current from the place we were ordered to reach, namely the Bay of Chefepiack Chesapeake, but we could not know that for certain before it pleased God to bring us to land. In the afternoon, around 6 o'clock, we dropped our deep-sea lead again and found bottom at 30 fathoms of water, for which we thanked God and were overjoyed, as we concluded we could not be far from land.

Coming into sight of Virginia.

On the 23rd, in the morning around 8 o'clock, we saw land at the latitude of 40 degrees and some minutes; it was a flat low land and a sandy beach; as far as we could see from afar, the land was full of growing trees, but we saw no harbor there, which moved us to sail along the coast with a West wind and seek a harbor further to the North.

Seeking a Harbor.

On the 24th, Sunday, the wind blew almost North-East, and we did our best to reach a certain point where we thought we saw a harbor, but approaching it, we found none; and thus we had done wasted labor, wherefore we, as the wind was now coming from the North-East, judged it best to betake ourselves to the open sea, in the hope that, if the wind held, we would reach the Chesapeak Bay, which Mr. Gilbert so greatly longed for in order to find our people of Sir Walter Raleigh left here thereabouts in the year 1587, and if not, that we might then possibly find a roadstead or harbor to take in fresh water, of which we were in need. On Monday the 25th of July, we came in the evening to the mouth of the bay, but the wind was so strong and the sea so hollow that the Skipper