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

In the Year 1606 and thereafter.

CHAPTER I.

Of the Progress and Events of the English Colony in Virginia.

1606

Author's address to the reader.

A large decorative initial 'M' is embellished with ornate floral and leaf scrollwork.
One could say that a landscape as beautiful as Virginia is, and a people so manageable, should have long since been possessed peacefully to the satisfaction of the explorers and to their eternal memory. But since the whole world sees a lack in this, the following discourse regarding the events of these matters will give satisfaction to all impartial readers; in which they will undoubtedly be able to easily understand what pertains to the matter, and from where it came that no better luck or success occurred in those enterprises.

Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, one of the first