SMITH'S  VIRGINIA.                                                    79
fufficient of that. Though there be fifh in the fea, fowls in the air, and beafts in the
woods, their bounds are fo large, they fo wild, and we fo weak and ignorant, we can-*
not much trouble them. Captain Newport we much fufpect to be the author of thofe
inventions. Now that you fhould know I have made you as great a difcovery as he,
for lefs charge than he fpendeth you every meal, I have fent you this map of the bay
and rivers, with an annexed relation of the countries and nations that inhabit them, as
you may fee at large. Alfo two barrels of ftones, and fuch as I take to be good iron
ore at the leaft ; fo divided, as by their notes you may fee in what places I found them.
The foldiers fay, many of your officers maintain their families out of that you fend us ;
and that Newport hath an hundred pounds a year for carrying news. For every mafter
you have yet fent can find the way as well as he, fo that an hundred pounds might be
fpared, which is more than we have all, that help to pay him wages. Captain Ratliff
is now called Sicklemore, a poor counterfeited impofture. I have fent you him home,
left the company fhould cut his throat. What he is, now every one can tell you : if
he and Archer return again, they are fufficient to keep us always in factions. When
you fend again I entreat you rather fend but thirty carpenters, hufbandmen, gardeners,
fifhermen, blackfmiths, mafons, and diggers up of trees, roots, well provided, than
a thoufand of fuch as we have : for except we be able both to lodge them, and feed
them, the moft will confume with want of neceffaries before they can be made good
for any thing. Thus if you pleafe to confider this account, and of the unneceffary
wages to Captain Newport, or his fhip's fo long lingering and flaying here (for notwith-
ftanding his boafting to leave us victuals for twelve months, though we had eighty-nine
by this difcovery lame and fick, and but a pint of corn a day for a man, we were con-
ftrained to give him three hogfheads of that to victual him homeward) or yet to fend
into Germany or Poland for glafs men and the reft, till we be able to fuftain ourfelves,
and relieve them when they come. It were better to give five hundred pound a ton for
thofe grofs commodities in Denmark, than fend for them hither, till more neceffary
things be provided. For in over-toiling our weak and unfkilful bodies, to fatisfy this
defire of prefent profit, we can fcarce ever recover ourfelves from one fupply to ano-
ther : and I humbly entreat you hereafter, let us know what we fhould receive, and
not ftand to the failors courtefy to leave us what they pleafe, elfe you may charge us
with what you will, but we not you with any thing. Thefe are the caufes that have
kept us in Virginia, from laying fuch a foundation, that ere this might have given much
better content and fatisfaction ; but as yet you muft not look for any profitable returns :
fo I humbly reft.
. The names of thofe in this fupply were thefe ; with their proceedings  and acci-
dents :
CapSn RkharTWaldo,     ] were aPPointed t0 be of the counciL
Mr. Francis Weft, brother to the Lord La Warre.
Thomas Graves,                   "j                       William Sambage,
Raleigh Chrofhaw,
Gabriel Beadle,
John Beadle,
John Ruffell,     '
William Ruffell,
John Cuderington,
Henry Leigh,
Henry Philpot,
? Gent.             Harmon Harrifon,
Daniel Tucker,
Henry Collins,
Hugh Wollefton,
> Gent.
John