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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 9 (search)
Book IX: the lost colonies of Virginia.
(A. D. 1584-1590.)
These extracts from the early Virginia narratives may be found in Hakluyt's Voyages (ed.
1801), vol. III. pp. 301-305, 323, 340-346, 354-355.
I—The first voyage to Virginia.
The first voyage made to the coasts of America, with two barks, wherein were Captains M. Philip Amadas and M. Arthur Barlowe, who discovered part of the country now called Virginia, Anno 1584.
Written by one of the said captains, and sent to Sir Walter Raleigh Knight, at whose charge and direction the said voyage was set forth.
The twenty-seventh day of April, in the year of our redemption,
Anno Domini. 1584, we departed [from] the west of England, with two barks well furnished with men and victuals, having received our last and perfect directions by your letters, confirming the former instructions and commandments, delivered by yourself at our leaving the River of Thames. . . . .
The 2d of July we found shoal water, where we smel