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

to seek food.

Two of them in action with Indians.

other another way, to seek out one thing or another, as has been said. One of these naive parties was attacked by four Indians, who with their arrows wounded one of those two in his side, whereupon the second, a bold fellow, jumped toward them and cut the strings of their bows, which made the Indians take to flight. Ours had to, as it was already late in the evening, remain lying in the thicket the entire night, the more so because they could not find the way home through the dense bushes and the weather was somewhat squally. Meanwhile, we were very worried about the staying behind of those mates and could think nothing but the worst.

On the 12th, the aforementioned two returned to us, which gladdened us greatly; but the staying behind of our Captain, beyond the appointed time, disturbed us not a little, for it was now almost three days since he parted from us. Meanwhile, we helped ourselves with pottage

Meager fare.

of sorrel and an herb called Alexander a wild celery-like plant, as well as with ground-nuts and tobacco, with which we could reasonably satisfy our nature.

Gosnol returns.

But finally, we received news that our Captain was coming toward us, which was such a welcome message as one can bring to poor and distressed people.

No one of them wants to stay there.

On the 13th, some of our mates, who had previously voted to stay there, began to fall away, upon which it was then fully decided, because of the small number of those who had said they wanted to stay, to abandon that intention.

They load Sassafras and Cedar wood.

On the 14th, 15th, and 16th, we were busy fetching and loading Sassafras and Cedar wood, and departed thus from the house and small fort, made by 10 men in 19 days, and which was suitable to house at least 20 men provided with their necessary food supplies.

Their re-

On the 17th, we set sail, passed Elisabeth's Island and the Dover-Cliff, and came to anchor five miles from our Fort at Martha's Vineyard. Here we went to land and got many cranes, geese, and other poultry that had now hatched and become reasonably large.