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THE CHESAPEAKE EXPLORED. 9
we could. Leauing the bote, with six shot, and divers salvages, he marched seuen or
eight myle before they came to the mine : leading his hostages in a small chaine they
were to have for their paines, being proud to be so richly adorned. The mine is a great
Rocky mountaine like Antimony; wherein they digged a great hole with shells and
hatchets: and hard by it, runneth a fayre brooke of christal-like water, where they wash
away the drosse and keepe the remainder, which they put in little baggs and sell it all
over the country to paint there bodyes, faces, or idolls; which makes them looke like
Blackmoores dusted over with silver. With so much as we could carry we returned to
our bote, kindely requiting this kinde king and all his kinde people. The cause of this
discovery was to search this mine, of wkich Newport did assure us that those small baggs
(we had given him) in England he had tryed to hold half silver ; but all we got proved
of no value; also to search what furr, the best whereof is at Cuscarawaocke, where is
made so much Rawranoke or white beads that occasion as much dissention among the
salvages, as gold and silver amongst Christians ; and what other minerals, rivers, rocks,
nations, woods, fishings, fruites, victuall, and what other commodities the land afforded ;
and whether the bay were endlesse or how farre it extended ; of mines we were all ignorant, but a few beauers, otters, beares, martins and minkes we found, and in divers places
that aboundance of fish, lying so thicke with their heads above the water, as for want of
nets (our barge driuing amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying pan ;
but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with ; neither better fish, more plenty, nor
more variety for small fish, had any of vs euer seene in any place so swimming in the
water, but they are not to be caught with frying pans ; some small cod also we did see
swim close by the shore by Smith's isles, and some as high as Riccard's clifts. And some
we have found dead upon the shore.
" To express all our quarrels, trecheries, and encounters amongst those salvages, I
should be too tedious ; but in breefe, at all times weFSO incountred them and curbed their
insolencies, that they concluded with presants to purchase peace ; yet we lost not a man :
at our first meeting our captaine euer observed this order to demand their bowes and
arrowes, swordes, mantalls and furrs, with some childe or two for hostage, whereby we
could quickly perceive, when they intended any villany. Having finished this discovery
(though our victuall was neere spent), he intended to see his imprisonment acquaintances
upon the river of Rappahanock, by many called Toppahanock, but our bote by reason of
the ebbe, chansing to grounde upon a many shoules lying in the entrance, we spyed
many fishes lurking in the reedes : our captaine sporting himself by nayling them to the
grownd with his sword, set vs all a fishing in that manner : thus we tooke more in one
houer than we could eate in a day. But it chansed our captaine taking a fish from his
sword (not knowing her condition) being much of the fashion of a Thornback, but a long
tayle like a riding rodde, whereon the middest is a most poysoned sting, of two or three
inches long, bearded like a saw on each side, which she strucke into the wrist of his arme
neare an inch and a halfe; no bloud nor wound was seene, but a little blew spot, but
the torment was instantly so extreame, that in foure houres had so swollen his hand,
arme, and shoulder, we all with much sorrow concluded his funerail and prepared
his graue in an island by, as himselfe directed ; yet it pleased God by a precious
oyle Doctor Russell at the first applyed to it with a probe, (ere night) his tormenting
paine was so well asswaged, that he eate of the fish to his supper, which gaue no
less joy and contant to vs than ease to himselfe, for which we called the island Stingray
isle after the name of the fish."'
It would be unnecessary to insert here the remaining part of this account
of Smith's " first voyage " for a discovery of the Chesapeake, inasmuch as it
relates principally to their return from the mouth of the Kappahannock to
Object Description
| Title | History of Maryland - 1 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Description
| Title | 00000034 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | THE CHESAPEAKE EXPLORED. 9 we could. Leauing the bote, with six shot, and divers salvages, he marched seuen or eight myle before they came to the mine : leading his hostages in a small chaine they were to have for their paines, being proud to be so richly adorned. The mine is a great Rocky mountaine like Antimony; wherein they digged a great hole with shells and hatchets: and hard by it, runneth a fayre brooke of christal-like water, where they wash away the drosse and keepe the remainder, which they put in little baggs and sell it all over the country to paint there bodyes, faces, or idolls; which makes them looke like Blackmoores dusted over with silver. With so much as we could carry we returned to our bote, kindely requiting this kinde king and all his kinde people. The cause of this discovery was to search this mine, of wkich Newport did assure us that those small baggs (we had given him) in England he had tryed to hold half silver ; but all we got proved of no value; also to search what furr, the best whereof is at Cuscarawaocke, where is made so much Rawranoke or white beads that occasion as much dissention among the salvages, as gold and silver amongst Christians ; and what other minerals, rivers, rocks, nations, woods, fishings, fruites, victuall, and what other commodities the land afforded ; and whether the bay were endlesse or how farre it extended ; of mines we were all ignorant, but a few beauers, otters, beares, martins and minkes we found, and in divers places that aboundance of fish, lying so thicke with their heads above the water, as for want of nets (our barge driuing amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying pan ; but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with ; neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for small fish, had any of vs euer seene in any place so swimming in the water, but they are not to be caught with frying pans ; some small cod also we did see swim close by the shore by Smith's isles, and some as high as Riccard's clifts. And some we have found dead upon the shore. " To express all our quarrels, trecheries, and encounters amongst those salvages, I should be too tedious ; but in breefe, at all times weFSO incountred them and curbed their insolencies, that they concluded with presants to purchase peace ; yet we lost not a man : at our first meeting our captaine euer observed this order to demand their bowes and arrowes, swordes, mantalls and furrs, with some childe or two for hostage, whereby we could quickly perceive, when they intended any villany. Having finished this discovery (though our victuall was neere spent), he intended to see his imprisonment acquaintances upon the river of Rappahanock, by many called Toppahanock, but our bote by reason of the ebbe, chansing to grounde upon a many shoules lying in the entrance, we spyed many fishes lurking in the reedes : our captaine sporting himself by nayling them to the grownd with his sword, set vs all a fishing in that manner : thus we tooke more in one houer than we could eate in a day. But it chansed our captaine taking a fish from his sword (not knowing her condition) being much of the fashion of a Thornback, but a long tayle like a riding rodde, whereon the middest is a most poysoned sting, of two or three inches long, bearded like a saw on each side, which she strucke into the wrist of his arme neare an inch and a halfe; no bloud nor wound was seene, but a little blew spot, but the torment was instantly so extreame, that in foure houres had so swollen his hand, arme, and shoulder, we all with much sorrow concluded his funerail and prepared his graue in an island by, as himselfe directed ; yet it pleased God by a precious oyle Doctor Russell at the first applyed to it with a probe, (ere night) his tormenting paine was so well asswaged, that he eate of the fish to his supper, which gaue no less joy and contant to vs than ease to himselfe, for which we called the island Stingray isle after the name of the fish."' It would be unnecessary to insert here the remaining part of this account of Smith's " first voyage " for a discovery of the Chesapeake, inasmuch as it relates principally to their return from the mouth of the Kappahannock to |
