| 1 Iron pot. | 7s. | ||
| 1 Kettell. | 6s. | ||
| 1 large Frying-pan. | 2s. | 6d. | |
| 1 Gridiron. | 1s. | 6d. | |
| 2 Skellets. | 5s. | ||
| 1 Spit. | 2s. | ||
| Platters, dishes, spoones of wood. | 4s. | ||
| 1L. | 8s. |
| For Sugar, Spice, and Fruit, and at Sea for six men. | 12s. | 6d. | |
| So the full charge after this rate for each person, will amount about the summe of | 1L. | 10s. | |
| The passage of each man is | 6L. | ||
| The fraught of these provisions for a man, will be about halfe a tun, which is | 12L. | 10s. | 10d. |
| So the whole charge will amount to about | 20L. |
Now if the number be great, Nets, Hooks and Lines, but Cheese, Bacon, Kine and Goats must be added. And this is the usuall proportion the Virginia Company doe bestow upon their Tenents they send.
A.D. 1623.
A briefe relation written by Captaine Smith to his Majesties
Commissioners for the reformation of Virginia, concerning some
aspersions against it.
Honourable Gentlemen, for so many faire and Navigable Rivers so neere adjoyning, and piercing thorow so faire a naturall Land, free from any inundations, or large Fenny unwholsome Marshes, I have not seene, read, nor heard of: And for the building of Cities, Townes, and Wharfage, if they will use the meanes, where there is no more ebbe nor floud, Nature in few places affoords any so convenient, for salt Marshes or [IV. 163.] Quagmires. In this tract of James Towne River I know very few; some small Marshes and Swamps there are, but more profitable then hurtfull: and I thinke there is more low Marsh ground betwixt Eriffe and Chelsey, then Kecoughton and the Falls, which is about one hundred and eighty miles by the course of the River.
The causes of our first miseries.
Being enjoyned by our Commission not to unplant nor wrong the Salvages, because the channell was so neere the shore, where now is James Towne, then a thicke grove of trees; wee cut them downe, where the Salvages pretending as much kindnesse as could bee, they hurt and slew one and twenty of us in two houres: At this time our diet was for most part water and bran, and three ounces of little better stuffe in bread for five men a meale, and thus we lived neere three moneths: our lodgings under boughes of trees, the Salvages being our enemies, whom we neither knew nor understood; occasions I thinke sufficient to make men sicke and die.
But 38 English in all Virginia.
Necessity thus did inforce me with eight or nine, to try conclusions amongst the Salvages, that we got provision which recovered the rest being most sicke. Six weeks I was led captive by those Barbarians, though some of my men were slaine, and the rest fled, yet it pleased God to make their great Kings daughter the means to returne me safe to James towne, and releeve our wants, and then our Common-wealth was in all eight and thirty, the remainder of one hundred and five.