58 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF NEWFOUNDLAND 



in 1615 followed Colston, leaving these scenes for a brief 

 career of slippered ease and civic honour in Bristol. 



Mason Guy's successor, Captain John Mason, R.N. 1615-21, 



,- was co-founder with Sir F. Gorges of New Hampshire and 

 Maine, had no ties with the west of England, was neither 

 Papist, Puritan, nor trader ; spent six winters in his govern- 

 ment, was a vigorous explorer, traded or tried to trade with 

 Indians, wrote a pamphlet on Newfoundland (which appealed 

 to Scotchmen and was published in Scotland), drew a map 

 of Newfoundland (which was published in two pamphlets by 

 Sir W. Vaughan), 1 and encouraged the growth of corn to such 

 an extent, that the rye-crops of Bristol's Hope were the cynosure 

 of rival settlements. One incident made his rule memorable 



helped 77- outside Newfoundland. Tisquantum, an Indian from New 



sqna on, ^ n gj an( j > was rescuec i f rom Spanish slavery by a Newfound- 

 land ship, was taken to Mason, with whom his friend Thomas 

 Dermer of Virginia, was staying, and was then sent by Mason 

 and taken by Dermer to-Sir F. Gorges, who restored him in time 

 for him to act as interpreter for the Pilgrim Fathers. Mason's 

 lot was cast in troubled waters. 



and -was Easlon had his successors in Sir Henry Manwaring and 



opposed by _ . . , . T r ,. . 



pirates and Ralegh s ' erring captains , who called at Newtoundland on 

 fishermen, their way to or from Guiana, and plundered the French and 



With "dlhoill i -ri i- i M MI 



Whit- Portuguese.* Moreover, Portuguese and English sailors still 

 bourne frequented Petty Harbour and St. John's Harbour and fought 

 with one another. So Sir Richard Whitbourne, a sea-captain 

 of Exmouth, who for thirty-six years had fished off the coasts 

 of Newfoundland, was sent out in 1615 as a Commissioner 

 to inquire into these disorders, and into those disputes between 

 English settlers and English fishers, which were destined to 

 prove interminable and irreconcilable. There were, says 

 Whitbourne, about 250 English fishing-ships, consequently 

 the inquiries had to be prosecuted at sundry times and in 



1 Cambrensium Caroleia, 1625, and Golden Fleece, 1626. 

 Captnins \Yoollaston, Collins, and Whitney ? 



