De gedenkwaardige reizen vanden beroemden Capiteyn Johan Smith na Virginien; gedaan in den jare 1606. en ...

1602.

in Virginia also came to an end for that time, on which so much time, labor, and expense had already been spent, and which was not resumed again for 12 years. Then, Captain Gosnold sailed there again on March 26 from Dartmouth with a company of 32 men in a small bark, but after some wandering and having traded and bartered here and there on various islands with the Wilde savages/indigenous peoples, they also returned to England, where they landed that same year.

1603.

In the year 1603, several noblemen and merchants brought a considerable sum of money together and fitted out 2 barks with all that was necessary, but they achieved no more than the previous ones.

1605.

So also George Weymouth, who sailed there by the order of the most reverend Lord Thomas Arundell, Baron of Warder, under the reign of King James, but he also observed these and those islands on the coast and engaged in some trade with the Wilde savages, but all fruitlessly, in order to make a settled colony there.

1606.

Until finally John Smith sailed in the year 1606 to another part of Virginia, where, after much effort and often danger to his own life, he undertook to establish a colony, which also succeeded for him, in spite of his enviers, to the extent that the English have to this day maintained this colony; which discovery, made and described by the same John Smith, the reader will see in his following voyage, and in it will come to read in detail the description of those places, their religion, way of government, plants, fruits, etc., his wondrous adventures with the Wilde savages, and his further encounters.