Bartholomeus Gosnols reys van Engeland na het noorder-gedeelte van Virginien, anno 1602 doo...

A canoe brought by him to England.

On the 30th, Captain Gosnold sailed with some mates to Hils-hap for pleasure, to inspect it. Returning, he brought along a canoe which four Indians, who feared us English, had left behind, which we have brought to England.

Gosnold finds friendly treatment from Indians on the mainland.

On the 31st, Captain Gosnold was desirous to see the mainland and sailed toward it. Arriving there, he dropped his anchor and went ashore with some of his men, where men, women, and children immediately appeared, who politely offered him various hides of wild beasts, tobacco, turtle doves, hemp, multicolored strings, chains, and whatever they could have at hand. The inhabitants here are a good-natured sort of people.

Along the entire seaside, we found mussel shells in the color of mother-of-pearl, but as we had nothing with us to gather them, we could get no further information about them.
Description of that land.

This mainland is the finest of all that we have ever seen and promised from afar already more than we expected of it, for it is full of beautiful fields, and those full of sweet-smelling flowers. There are also beautiful meadows with large groves like hedges. One has there several small brooks and two large rivers, which, in our judgment, would at some time serve as convenient harbors and could bring one to the place where that which men seek so greedily and eagerly is found. In the mouth of one of these inlets or rivers lies the small island I have already mentioned by the name of Happes-hil. Toward the West side of the mainland, about five hours from there, is the other river. The coast now between both runs like an arch and lies East toward the North, and past these rivers, we noticed them extending South-West by South.

Having been able to discover thus much, we were satisfied for that time, so that we returned to our