58 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF NEWFOUNDLAND 



in 1 61 5 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. 16 15-21, 



6'«y, 1615- was co-founder with Sir F. Gorges of New Hampshire and 

 21, 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),^ 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 

 helj>ed Ti- outside Newfoundland. Tisquantum, an Indian from New 

 squan urn, YA\^2,v\di^ was rescued from 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 Easton had his successors in Sir Henry Manwaring and 



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

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

 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 oif the coasts 

 of Newfoundland, was sent out in 16 15 as a Commissioner 

 to inquire into these disorders, and into those disputes between 

 English setders 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 



^ Cavibrensium Caroleia, 1625, and Golden Fleece, 1626. 



Captains Woollaston, Collins, and Whitney 



