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Thomas Harriot. A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
Table of Contents
The 1590 edition of de Brys in the Library of Congress
THE FIRST PART, OF MARCHANTABLE COMMODITIES
THE SECOND PART, OF SVCHE COMMODITIES AS VIRGINIA IS knowne to yeelde for victuall and sustenance of mans life, vsually fed vpon by the naturall inhabitants: as also by vs during the time of our aboad. And first of such as are sowed and husbanded
THE THIRD AND LAST PART, OF SVCH OTHER THINGES AS IS BEHOOFULL for those which shall plant and inhabit to know of; with a description of the nature and manners of the people of the countrey
The Conclusion
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Thomas Harriot
Published by Good Press, 2020
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And least that the substance of my relation should be doubtful vnto you as of others by reason of their diuersitie: I will first open the cause in a few wordes wherefore they are so different; referring my selue to your fauourable constructions, and to be adiudged of as by good consideration you shall finde cause.
Of our companie that returned some for their misdemenour and ill dealing in the countrey, haue beene there worthily punished; who by reason of their badde natures, haue maliciously not onelie spoken ill of their Gouernours; but for their sakes slaundered the countrie it selfe. The like also haue those done which were of their consort.
