EDWARD FENTON ad. 



1583. 



and found the chanell and flats, and returned aboord 

 agalne within two houres, having a good gale of winde. 



The 23 day our skiffe went ashore to fish, and tooke 

 prety store : we sent our main-top ashore to be mended, 

 and many of our men to wash their cloaths ; also I went 

 my selfe with them aland, to take order that no man 

 should any wayes offend the Indians. In the meane time 

 the general! with all the rest of the chiefest gentlemen, 

 came ashore, and viewed the place, and appointed out 

 the fittest roome to set up our smithes forge, and ovens Portable ovem 

 to bake our biscuit, and place for our coopers to trim ^° ^^^^ ^^' 

 our water caske. 



The 24 day at foure of the clocke, before day, we 

 heard one call for a boat on the North shore, to whom 

 I sent my skiffe, who brought aboord one named John John 

 Whithall, an English man, which is maried here in this ^''^^^^^^^^ 

 place, and with him two of his Indians ; whom I enter- 

 teined untill I sent word to the generall to prepare 

 himselfe to receive him : in which time he and I talked 

 of many severall particulars. 



About sixe a clocke I conveyed him aboord the Good counsell 

 admirall: there he discovered unto us what had bene htheforesa-jd 

 done at the towne, as fortification, and sending their Jven tolur 

 wives away, &c. advising us to receive no more delayes, men. 

 but to come up presently before the towne with our ships. 



About ten a clocke came a canoa, and brought downe 

 Joseph Dory and Steven Repose, who tolde us that on 

 Saturday the governour would meet our generall, and 

 talke with him, praying us in the meane time to use 

 our ordinary business of cooperage, carpenters worke, fill- 

 ing water, fishing, and washing, &c. but not to set up 

 forge, nor oven, untill speech had with the governour. 

 After this answere, we dined together aboord the gallion : 

 after dinner we left the messengers sitting in the cabbin, 

 and went upon the poope ; where the generall demanded 

 the advice of his assistants, whether it were not best to stay 

 these men while we had them or not, or whether it 

 were best to go up with our ships to the towne or no. 

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