A.D. 



1578. 



[in. 91.] 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



A house 

 builded and 

 left there. 



M. Wolfall a 



godly 



Preacher. 



Shippes ready rigged and loden. Wherefore he departed 

 from thence againe the next morning towards the 

 Countesses sound, where he arrived the 28. of the same. 

 By the way he set his Miners ashore at Beares sound, 

 for the better dispatch and gathering the Ore togither: 

 for that some of the ships were behind hand with their 

 fraight, the time of the yeere passing suddenly away. 



The thirtith of August the Anne Francis was brought 

 aground, and had 8. great leakes mended which she had 

 received by meanes of the rocks and yce. This day the 

 Masons finished a house which Captaine Fenton caused 

 to be made of lyme and stone upon the Countesse of 

 Warwickes Island, to the ende we might prove against 

 the next yeere, whither the snow could overwhelme it, 

 the frost breake it up, or the people dismember the same. 

 And the better to allure those brutish and uncivill people 

 to courtesie against other times of our comming, we left 

 therein divers of our Countrey toyes, as belles, and 

 knives, wherein they specially delight, one for the neces- 

 sary use, and the other for the great pleasure thereof. 

 Also pictures of men and women in lead, men on horse- 

 backe, looking glasses, whistles, and pipes. Also in the 

 house was made an Oven, and bread left baked therein 

 for them to see and taste. 



We buried the timber of our pretended fort. Also 

 here we sowed pease, corne, and other graine, to prove 

 the fruitfulnesse of the soyle against the next yeere. 



Master Wolfall on Winters Fornace preached a godly 

 sermon, which being ended, he celebrated also a Com- 

 munion upon the land, at the partaking whereof was the 

 Captaine of the Anne Francis, and many other Gentlemen 

 and Souldiers, Mariners, and Miners with him. The 

 celebration of the divine mystery was the first signe, 

 seale, and confirmation of Christs name, death, and 

 passion ever knowen in these quarters. The said M. 

 Wolfall made sermons, and celebrated the Communion at 

 sundry other times, in severall and sundry ships, because 

 the whole company could never meet together at any one 



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