[134]. Hunter, British India, vol. I, p. 306.
[135]. Cheyney, “English Conditions,” pp. 514-21. For a report on a site for a colony in Derry, which might be mistaken for an American “prospectus” of the same period, vide Cal. State Papers, Ireland, 1608-1610, p. 318. The items are curiously familiar: “the goodness of the air and the fruitfulness of the land”; “the red deer, foxes, conies, martins, otters”; “the great plenty of timber for shipping”; “the commodious harbor”; “the infinite store of cods, herrings,” etc.; “the sea-fowl in great abundance”; even the pearls.
[136]. Cal. State Pap., Col., 1558-1660, p. 15.
[137]. The Trades Increase, in Harleian Miscellany (ed. 1809), vol. III, p. 299; Brown, Genesis, p. 820.
[138]. Smith, Works, vol. I, p. 240.
[139]. Ibid., vol. II, pp. 731 ff.
[140]. Gorges, “Briefe Narration,” pp. 57-62.
[141]. Gorges, “Briefe Narration,” p. 62. He does not give the name of the savage. The identity is established by Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation (Boston, 1861), pp. 96 f.
[142]. This I take to be the explanation of the voyages, though he may have returned to England between them. It seems certain that he was on the coast in 1620. Cf. Dermer's letter in Purchas, Pilgrimes, vol. XIX, pp. 129 ff.; Gorges, “Briefe Narration,” pp. 61 ff.; and Bradford, Plymouth, pp. 95-98.
[143]. Reprinted by Brown, Genesis, pp. 338-53.