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TRAVELS IN 
" by both your fleets, now bound for Surat and Bantam, the 
*' firft day of July in the year of our Lord 1620, have fully 
*' agreed to take poffeffion of the faid bay of Saldania for and 
" in the name of our fovereign lord the King, James by the- 
" grace of God, &c. and for and in the name of the whole 
" continent near adjoining, fo far to be extended as that no 
" Chriftian prince or potentate have at prefent any fort or gar- 
" rifon for plantation within the limits aforefaid, as by a deed 
" publiflied, executed and fubfcribed in the faid bay of Sal- 
" dania the third day of July 1620, herewith fent your 
" worfhips, more plainly may appear ; which deed was pub- 
" lifhed with great folemnity before the Englifh and the 
" Dutch ; who feemed likewife much to approve the fame. 
" And in token of poiTelTion, taken as aforefaid, and for a 
*' memorial hereafter, we have placed a heap of ftones on a hill 
lying Weft-fouth-wefl: from the road in the faid bay, and 
*' call it by the name of King James his Mount. The main 
" and principle reafons which induced us to do this without 
order were many. Firft, at our arrival in the Bay we found 
" nine great fliips of the States ready to fet fail for Bantam, 
" who declared to us plainly that the States did mean to make 
" a plantation here the next year, and that they had taken a 
" view of the bay, and made a road already in the country 
" fome thirty or forty miles, &c. meaning, as we fuppofe, and 
" it is not to be doubted, to make us hereafter pay for our water 
" and anchorage towards defraying their intended plantation. 
" Likewife this great country, if it were well difcovered, would 
" be kept in fubjedtion with a few men and little charge, con- 
" fidering how the inhabitants are but naked men and without 
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