The English-American his travail by sea and land: or, a new svrvey of the West-Indias. Containing a journall of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America ... With a grammar, or some few rudiments of the Indian tongue, called, Poconchi. Of Pocoman / By the true and painfull endevours of Thomas Gage.

  • Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.
Date:
1648
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Credit: The English-American his travail by sea and land: or, a new svrvey of the West-Indias. Containing a journall of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America ... With a grammar, or some few rudiments of the Indian tongue, called, Poconchi. Of Pocoman / By the true and painfull endevours of Thomas Gage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and benefit of my Englijh Country-men \ And which the rather I held my felf obliged unto, becanfe in a manner nothing hath been written of thefe Farts for thefe hundred years lafi faff which is almoft ever fince the firfl Conqwft thereof by the Spa¬ niards, who are contented to loje the honour of that wealth and felicity they have there fince purchafed by their great endevours, fo they may enjoy the fafety of retaining what they have formerly gotten in peace and fecurily. In doing whereof I fib all offer no Collections , but fuch as fib all arife from mine own obfervations, which will at much differ from what formerly hath been hereupon Written, as the piSlure of a perfon grown to mans eflate, from that which was fallen of him when he was but a Ckilde $ or the lafi hand of the Painter, to the firfl or rough draught of the piflure. I am told by others, that this may prove a m.ofi acceptable worfy but I doe tell my felf that it will prove both lame and imperfefl, and therefore had need tofihelter my felf tender the fbadoyp of fome high protection, which l humbly pray your Excellency to afford me\ nothing doubting, but as God hath lately made your Excellency the happy inflrument, not onely of faving my felf but of many numbers of godly and V?eU affefled people in this County of Kent (where now I refide by the favour of the Parliament) from the imminent ruine and defiruBion plotted againfi them by their mofi implacable enemies j fo the fame God who bath led your Excellency through fo many difficulties towards the fettlement of the peace of this fingdom, and reduction of Ireland, will, after the perfefling thereof (which God ofbis mercy haften) direByour Noble thoughts to employ the Souldiery of this Kingdom upon fuch jufi and honou¬ rable defignes in thofe parts of America, as their want of attion at home may neither be a burden to themfelves nor the Kwgdome. To your Excellency therefore I offer a New-World, to be the fab- je£i of yourfuture pains, valour, and piety, beffeeching your accep¬ tance of this plain but faith full relation of mine, wherein your Excellency, and by you the Englifb Nation jhall fee what wealth and honor they have lofi by one of their narrow hearted Princes, irho living in peace and abounding in riches, did notwithflanding rejeil the offer of being firfl difcoverer of America 5 and l fit it unto Ferdinando of Arragon, who at the fame time was wholly taken up by the Warrs, in gaining of the City andKingdome of Granada/>m the Moores; being foimpoven(bed thereby m that be was compelled to borrow with fome difficulty a few Crowns of a very