ABSTRACT
Captain Christopher Newport, with three ships, one of 100 tons, another of forty, and a pinnance of twenty, accompanied by Captain John Smith, Mr. Edward Maria Wingfield, Captain Bartholomew Gosnoll, Captain John Ratliffe, Captain John Martin, and Captain George Kendall, appointed members of the council for the new colony then going to Virginia, consisting of 100 persons, sailed from the Downs in January, 1607. On the 23d of February they saw Martinico, and anchored next day at Dominica, where they trafficked with the natives until the 26th, when they went to Guadaloupe, where, George Percy says, they " found a bath which was so hot, that no man was able to stand long by it: our admirall, Captain Newport, caused a piece of pork to be put in it, which boyled it so in the space of halfe an houre, as no fire could mend it." From Guadaloupe they proceeded to " Mevis" (Nevis), where the colonists were landed, and encamped for six days, during which time, Percy states, we " spent none of our ships victuall, by reason our men some went a hunting, some a fowling, and some a fishing; where we got great store of conies, sundry kinds of fowles, and great plentie of fish. W e came to a bath standing in a valley betwixt two hils, where wee bathed ourselves, and found it to be of the nature of the bathes in England, some places hot, and some colder." Near this place their tents were pitched. From Nevis they Went to the Virgin Islands, and from thence, passing Puerto Rico, arrived at Mona, where they watered; all the water they had taken on board at Nevis stunk so, that they could not drink it. Upon this island they killed two wild boars, and saw a " huge wild bull." A party went to the Monica, where, according to Percy, they had " a terrible landing, and a troublesome getting up to the top of the mountaine or ile, being a high firme rocke step, with many terrible sharp stones; after wee got to the top of the ile, wee found it to bee a fertile and a plaine ground, full of goodly grasse, and abundance of
Smith's Virginia, 41,42,43. George Percy's Voyage. Purchas, part iv. L. 9. C. 2. p. 1685.
