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The Historie of Travaile into
Virginia Britannia

Expressing the Cosmographie and Comodities of the
Country, together with the Manners and Customes of the
People. Gathered and observed as well by those who went
first thither as collected by William Strachey, Gent., the
first Secretary of the Colony

Edited by
R.H. MAJOR

First published by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge

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Founded in 1846, the Hakluyt Society seeks to advance knowledge and education by the publication of scholarly editions of primary records of voyages, travels and other geographical material. In partnership with Ashgate, and using print-on-demand and e-book technology, the Society has made re-available all 290 volumes comprised in Series I and Series II of its publications in both print and digital editions. For information about the Hakluyt Society visit www.hakluyt.com .

ISBN 13: 978-1-4094-1272-4 (hbk)

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The Hakluyt Society.

THE HISTORIE OF TRAVAILE
INTO VIRGINIA.

M.DCCC.XLIX

THE

HISTORIE OF TRAVAILE

INTO

VIRGINIA BRITANNIA;

EXPRESSING THE

COSMOGRAPHIE AND COMODITIES OF THE COUNTRY,
TOGITHER WITH THE MANNERS AND
CUSTOMES OF THE PEOPLE.

GATHERED AND OBSERVED AS WELL BY THOSE WHO WENT

FIRST THITHER AS COLLECTED BY

WILLIAM STRACHEY, GENT.,

THE FIRST SECRETARY OF THE COLONY.

______

NOW FIRST EDITED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, IN THE
BRITISH MUSEUM, BY

R. H. MAJOR, ESQ.,

OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

M.DCCC.XLIX

THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

__________

Council.

SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, G.C.St.S., F.R.S, Corr. Mem. Inst. Fr., Hon. Mem. Imp. Acad. Sc. St Petersburg, &c., &c., PRESIDENT.

} VICE-PRESIDENTS.

VICE-ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES MALCOLM, KNT.

THE REV. W. WHEWELL, D.D., Mast. T. C. C.

REAR-ADMIRAL SIR FRANCIS BEAUFORT. KNT.

CHARLES T. BEKE, ESQ., Phil. D., F.S.A.

CAPTAIN C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, R.N., C.B.

MAJOR-GENERAL J. BRIGGS, F.R.S.

WILLIAM DESBOROUGH COOLEY, ESQ

BOLTON CORNEY. ESQ., M.R.S.L.

SIR HENRY ELLIS, K.H., B.C.L., F.R.S.

JOHN FORSTER, ESQ.

R. W. GREY, ESQ., M.P.

JOHN HOLMES, ESQ.

JOHN WINTER JONES ESQ.

P. LEVESQUE, ESQ.

THE VERY REVEREND THE DEAN OF ST. PAULS.

R. MONCKTON MILNES, ESQ., M P.

THE MARQUESS OF NORTHAMPTON.

REV. G. C. RENOUARD, M.A.

THOMAS RUNDALL, ESQ.

ANDREW SMITH, ESQ., M.D.

R. H. MAJOR, ESQ, F.R.G.S., HONORARY SECRETARY.

EDITORS PREFACE.

____

THE prophetic quotation which the author of this work has placed upon his title-page, seems to indicate an anticipation on his part, that his manuscript would one day be printed; and its interesting date and curious details, have given the Editor reason to congratulate himself upon the fact, that the Hakluyt Society is the generation prognosticated.

Two copies of the manuscript, both in the authors handwriting (for there are a sufficient number of instances of it in the British Museum to prove its identity), are all that have come under the Editors notice; one in the Sloane Collection, No. 1622, in the British Museum, from which the present publication has been transcribed; and the other among the Ashmolean Manuscripts, No. 1754. The only difference between these two, is an alteration in the title of the second book, and the addition to the titles, both of the first and second books, of the motto of Alget qui non ardet. The Museum copy is dedicated to Sir Francis Bacon, Lord High Chancellor; and that in the Ashmolean Library to Sir Allen Apsley, Purveyor to His Majesties Navie Royall.

That the author was a man of an intelligent and observing mind will be evident from a perusal of the following pages. That he was a man of considerable learning will be likewise evident; although it must be acknowledged that he was not without a tincture of the pedantry common to the age, which has led him occasionally to illustrate his descriptions by the employment of classical expressions, and those of such an unusual character, that the Editor has been compelled, in his duty to the reader, to make annotations apparently but little suited to the general tenour of the narrative. This defect, however, it is hoped, will be found to be amply compensated by the intrinsic merit of the work itself, especially when the date at which it was written is taken into consideration.

R. H. M.

INTRODUCTION.

____

THE EDITOR was extremely desirous of commencing this introduction with a short biographical notice of William Strachey, the author of the following pages; but notwithstanding that he has used his best exertions, he has been unsuccessful in discovering anything more respecting him, than such few points as connect him immediately with the subject of the work itself.1 The place and date of his birth, as well as those of his death, are unknown. That he was a person of importance in Virginia we shall hereafter show. But in the absence of sufficient materials to make even the slightest biographical sketch, the Editor has thought it better simply to introduce his name at those points of the following introductory outline of the progress of the colony, where it naturally falls in with the thread of the narrative.

It is presumed that the two following questions will most naturally suggest themselves, upon the perusal of our title-page. First, what is the period of this Historie of Travaile? and secondly, what degree of interest does the date of the narrative involve, with reference to the history of the country of which it treats?

The period referred to in our title-page, ranges over 1610, 1611, and 1612; and if we call to mind that the first definite settlement of Virginia, or in other words, the first permanent colonization of America by the British, took place only in 1607, it must be evident that this period is one of the highest interest to all who read with pleasure what Hakluyt calls the industrious labors and painefull travels of our countrymen.

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