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1584] THE VOYAGE OF AMADAS AND
BARLOWE 235
sweete smelling
timber trees, and the most part of their under-
woods are
Bayes and such like: they have those Okes that we
have,
but farre greater and better. After they had bene
divers
times aboord our shippes, my selfe, with seven
more went
twentie mile into the River, that runneth
towarde the Citie
of Skicoak,' which River they call
Occam: 2 and the evening
following, wee came to an Island
which they call Raonoak,3
distant from the harbour by
which we entered, seven leagues:
and at the north end
thereof was a village of nine houses, built
of Cedar, and
fortified round about with sharpe trees, to keepe
out
their enemies, and the entrance into it made like a
turne
pike very artificially; when wee came towardes it,
standing
neere unto the waters side, the wife of
Granganimeo the kings
brother came running out to meete
us very cheerefully and
friendly, her husband was not
then in the village: some of
her people shee commanded to
drawe our boate on shore for
the beating of the billoe:
others she appointed to cary us on
their backes to the
dry ground, and others to bring our oares
into the house
for feare of stealing. When we were come into
the utter
roome, having five roomes in her house, she caused
us to
sit downe by a great fire, and after tooke off our
clothes
and washed them, and dryed them againe: some of
the
women plucked off our stockings and washed them,
some
washed our feete in warme water, and shee her selfe
tooke
great paines to see all thinges ordered in the best
maner
shee could, making great haste to dress some meate
for us
to eate.
After we had
thus dryed ourselves, she brought us into the
inner
roome, where shee set on the boord standing along
the
house, somewheate like furmentie, sodden Venison, and
roasted,
fish sodden, boyled and roasted, Melons rawe,
and sodden,
1 Shown on White's
charts as about where Portsmouth, Virginia, now
is.
2 Probably the north part of
Pamlico Sound, plus Currituck
Sound.
3 A corruption, it may be,
of the Indian name Ohanoak. The margin
has ""Roanoak,""
which is on subsequent pages the prevailing
spelling.
Roanoke Island, and the remains of English
colonization there, are de-
scribed by Mr. Talcott
Williams in the Annual Report of the American
Historical
Association for 1895, pp. 57-61.
Object Description
| Document Number | AJ-034 |
| Document URL | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-034/ |
| Document Title | Captain Arthur Barlowe's Narrative of the First Voyage to the Coasts of America |
| Author | Barlowe, Arthur |
| Contributor | Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926 (editor and introduction) |
| Document Source | Burrage, Henry S. (editor). Early English and French Voyages, Chiefly from Hakluyt, 1534-1608. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906). Pages 225-241. |
| Series | Original Narratives of Early American History |
| Electronic Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Electronic Publication Date | 2003 |
| Print / Download PDF Version | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-034/print/ |
| Read Background | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-034/summary/ |
| Genre | travel narrative; |
| Language | English |
| Region / Country | Southeast; |
| State / Province | North Carolina; Virginia; |
| Event Date | 1584 |
| Expedition / Settlement | Amadas and Barlowe Expedition, 1584; Roanoke Settlement, 1584-1587 |
| Ethnicity | Indian; English; |
| Key Persons & Places | Roanoke Island |
| Encounters | contact / meeting; |
| Social Relations | Indian-white relations; women’s roles; |
| Daily Life | food & water; tools & implements; customs; housing & furnishings; |
| Politics | warfare & battles; intertribal relations; |
| Science & Technology | transportation; |
| Topography | islands; |
| Plants | trees; |
| Digital Format | xml |
| Digital Identifier | AJ-034 |
| Copyright & Access | © Copyright 2003 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin). For further information see http://www.americanjourneys.org/rights/ |
Description
| Document Number | AJ-034 |
| Document URL | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-034/ |
| Document Title | Captain Arthur Barlowe's Narrative of the First Voyage to the Coasts of America |
| Author | Barlowe, Arthur |
| Contributor | Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926 (editor and introduction) |
| Document Page | 235 |
| Document Source | Burrage, Henry S. (editor). Early English and French Voyages, Chiefly from Hakluyt, 1534-1608. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906). Pages 225-241. |
| Series | Original Narratives of Early American History |
| Electronic Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Electronic Publication Date | 2003 |
| Print / Download PDF Version | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-034/print/ |
| Read Background | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-034/summary/ |
| Genre | travel narrative; |
| Page Type | text |
| Language | English |
| Region / Country | Southeast; |
| State / Province | North Carolina; Virginia; |
| Event Date | 1584 |
| Expedition / Settlement | Amadas and Barlowe Expedition, 1584; Roanoke Settlement, 1584-1587 |
| Key Persons & Places | Roanoke Island |
| Social Relations | Indian-white relations; women’s roles; |
| Digital Format | jpeg |
| Digital Identifier | AJ-034-0261 |
| Copyright & Access | © Copyright 2003 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin). For further information see http://www.americanjourneys.org/rights/ |
| Full Text |
1584] THE VOYAGE OF AMADAS AND BARLOWE 235 sweete smelling timber trees, and the most part of their under- woods are Bayes and such like: they have those Okes that we have, but farre greater and better. After they had bene divers times aboord our shippes, my selfe, with seven more went twentie mile into the River, that runneth towarde the Citie of Skicoak,' which River they call Occam: 2 and the evening following, wee came to an Island which they call Raonoak,3 distant from the harbour by which we entered, seven leagues: and at the north end thereof was a village of nine houses, built of Cedar, and fortified round about with sharpe trees, to keepe out their enemies, and the entrance into it made like a turne pike very artificially; when wee came towardes it, standing neere unto the waters side, the wife of Granganimeo the kings brother came running out to meete us very cheerefully and friendly, her husband was not then in the village: some of her people shee commanded to drawe our boate on shore for the beating of the billoe: others she appointed to cary us on their backes to the dry ground, and others to bring our oares into the house for feare of stealing. When we were come into the utter roome, having five roomes in her house, she caused us to sit downe by a great fire, and after tooke off our clothes and washed them, and dryed them againe: some of the women plucked off our stockings and washed them, some washed our feete in warme water, and shee her selfe tooke great paines to see all thinges ordered in the best maner shee could, making great haste to dress some meate for us to eate. After we had thus dryed ourselves, she brought us into the inner roome, where shee set on the boord standing along the house, somewheate like furmentie, sodden Venison, and roasted, fish sodden, boyled and roasted, Melons rawe, and sodden, 1 Shown on White's charts as about where Portsmouth, Virginia, now is. 2 Probably the north part of Pamlico Sound, plus Currituck Sound. 3 A corruption, it may be, of the Indian name Ohanoak. The margin has ""Roanoak"" which is on subsequent pages the prevailing spelling. Roanoke Island, and the remains of English colonization there, are de- scribed by Mr. Talcott Williams in the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1895, pp. 57-61. |