many injuries and slaughters done upon them by this
Piemacum. They invited divers men, and thirty women of the best of his
country, to their town to a feast, and when they were altogether merry,
and praying before their idol--which is nothing else but a mere delusion
of the devil--the captain or lord of the town came suddenly upon them,
and slew them every one, reserving the women and children; and these two
have oftentimes since persuaded us to surprise Piemacum his town, having
promised and assured us that there will be found in it great store of
commodities. But whether their persuasion be to the end they may be
revenged of their enemies, or for the love they bear to us, we leave
that to the trial hereafter.

Beyond this island called Roanoak are many islands very plentiful of
fruits and other natural increases, together with many towns and
villages along the side of the continent, some bounding upon the
islands, and some stretching up farther into the land.

When we first had sight of this country, some thought the first land we
saw to be the continent; but after we entered into the haven we saw
before us another mighty long sea, for there lieth along the coast a
tract of islands two hundred miles in length, adjoining to the ocean
sea, and between the islands two or three entrances. When you are
entered between them, these islands being very narrow for the most part,
as in some places six miles broad, in some places less, in few more,
then there appeareth another great sea, containing in breadth in some
places forty, in some fifty, in some twenty miles over, before you come
unto the continent; and in this enclosed sea there are above one hundred
islands of divers bignesses, whereof one is sixteen miles long, at which
we were, finding it a most pleasant and fertile ground, replenished with
goodly cedars and divers other sweet woods, full of currants, of flax,
and many other notable commodities which we at that time had no leisure
to view. Besides this island there are many, as I have said, some of
two, of three, of four, of five miles, some more, some less, most
beautiful and pleasant to behold, replenished with deer, coneys, hares,
and divers beasts, and about them the goodliest and best fish in the
world, and in greatest abundance.

Thus, sir, we have acquainted you with the particulars of our discovery
made this present voyage, as far forth as the shortness of the time we
there continued would afford us to take