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

did not dare to keep it there. On the 26th, the wind was just as strong. On the 27th, the wind calmed toward the evening, and we set our course that night for the bay, but meanwhile, the wind turned. On the 28th, because we were in great need of wood and fresh water, and all the more because our food and beer began to run out, we could not stay there any longer; we veered off and for that time left the search for that bay behind.

Gilbert with 4 others are ambushed and murdered by the Indians.

On the 29th, being not far from the land, which appeared pleasant and full of beautiful trees and with the opening of a river, our Captain Bartholomeus Gilbert, with Mr. Thomas Canner, a nobleman from Bernhards-Inne Bernard's Inn, along with Richard Harison the Under-Skipper, Hendrik Kenton our Surgeon, and one Dirk, a Dutchman, went from the ship, lying more than a mile from land, with the boat to the land. They left the boat to be guarded by 2 boys and marched with their weapons inland, where they were soon ambushed by the Indians, through which one and the other were wounded and struck down, which was seen by the boys in the boat, who had work to save themselves with the boat, all the more because some of those Indians came at them with the aim of pulling the boat onto the land, but they escaped it and reached the ship with sad hearts, with the loss of the Captain and four prominent men of our ship.

Whereby they were very weak on the ship.

Thus there were only eleven of us and the boys left, and therefore we dared not, although our lack of water and wood was great, put any more of our small company into the balance.

Returning home via the Azores.

Thus our Skipper Henrik Suite took his course to England via the Azores or Flemish islands, where we first touched at the Peak; subsequently, we came into our Channel, first caught sight of Portland, and so on the River Thames to Ratcliffe around the end of September 1603, and found the City sadly infected with a terrible Plague.