A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants. Discouered by the English colon there seated by Sir Richard Greinuile Knight in the eere 1585. Which remained vnder the gouernement of twelue monethes, at the speciall charge and direction of the Honourable Sir Walter Raleigh Knight lord Warden of the stanneries who therein hath beene fauoured and authorised b her Maiestie :and her letters patents: This fore booke is made in English by Thomas Hariot seruant to the abouenamed Sir Walter, a member of the Colon, and there imploed in discouering Cum gratia et priuilegio Caes. Matis Speciali

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A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants. Discouered by the English colon there seated by Sir Richard Greinuile Knight in the eere 1585. Which remained vnder the gouernement of twelue monethes, at the speciall charge and direction of the Honourable Sir Walter Raleigh Knight lord Warden of the stanneries who therein hath beene fauoured and authorised b her Maiestie :and her letters patents: This fore booke is made in English by Thomas Hariot seruant to the abouenamed Sir Walter, a member of the Colon, and there imploed in discouering Cum gratia et priuilegio Caes. Matis Speciali

Author

Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621.

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Francoforti ad Moenum :: Typis Ioannis Wecheli, sumtibus vero Theodori de Bry anno M D XC. Venales reperiuntur in officina Sigismundi Feirabendii,

[1590]

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Raleigh's Roanoke colonies, 1584-1590 -- Early works to 1800.

Indians of North America -- Virginia -- Pictorial works.

Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Early works to 1800.

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"A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants. Discouered by the English colon there seated by Sir Richard Greinuile Knight in the eere 1585. Which remained vnder the gouernement of twelue monethes, at the speciall charge and direction of the Honourable Sir Walter Raleigh Knight lord Warden of the stanneries who therein hath beene fauoured and authorised b her Maiestie :and her letters patents: This fore booke is made in English by Thomas Hariot seruant to the abouenamed Sir Walter, a member of the Colon, and there imploed in discouering Cum gratia et priuilegio Caes. Matis Speciali." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02655.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• dedication
• preface
• THE FIRST PART, OF MARCHAN∣TABLE COMMO∣DITIES.
  • Silke of grasse or grasse Silke.
  • Worme Silke.
  • Flaxe and Hempe.
  • Allum.
  • Wapeih.
  • Pitch, Tarre, Rozen, and Turpentine.
  • Sassafras.
  • Cedar.
  • Wine.
  • Oyle.
  • Furres:
  • Deare skinnes.
  • Ciuet cattes.
  • Iron.
  • Copper.
  • Pearle.
  • Sweete Gummes.
  • Dyes of diuers kindes.
  • Oade.
  • Suger canes.
• THE SECOND PART, OF SVCHE COMMO∣DITIES AS VIRGINIA IS knowne to yeelde for victuall and sustenāce 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.
  • Of Rootes.
  • Of Fruites.
  • Of a kinde of fruite or berrie in forme of Acornes.
  • Of Beastes.
  • Of Foule.
  • Of Fishe.
• THE THIRD AND LAST PART, OF SVCH OTHER THINGES AS IS BE HOO∣full for those which shall plant and inhabit to know of; with a description of the nature and manners of the people of the countrey.
  • Of commodities for building and other necessary vses.
  • Of the nature and manners of the people
• The Conclusion.
• title page
• list of illustrations
• frontispiece
• to the reader
• II. The arriual of the Englishemen in Virginia.
• III. A weroan or great Lorde of Virginia.
• IIII. On of the chieff Ladyes of Secota.
• V. On of the Religeous men in the towne of Secota.
• VI. A younge gentill woeman doughter of Secota.
• VII. A cheiff Lorde of Roanoac.
• VIII. A cheiff Ladye of Pomeiooc.
• IX. An ageed manne in his winter garment.
• X. Their manner of careynge ther Chil∣dern and a tyere of the cheiffe Ladyes of the towne of Dasamonquepeuc.
• XI. The Coniuerer.
• XII. The manner of makinge their boates.
• XIII. Their manner of fishynge in Virginia.
• XIIII. The brovvyllinge of their fishe ouer the flame.
• XV. Their seetheynge of their meate in earthen pottes.
• XVI. Their sitting at meate.
• XVII. Their manner of prainge vvith Rat∣tels abowt te fyer.
• XVIII. Theirdanses vvhich they vse att their hyghe feastes.
• XIX. The Tovvne of Pomeiooc.
• XX. The Tovvne of Secota.
• XXI. Ther Idol Kivvasa.
• XXII. The Tombe of their Werovvans or Cheiff Lordes.
• XXIII. The Marckes of sundrye of the Cheif mene of Virginia.
• title page
• The trvve picture of one Picte I.
• The trvve picture of a vvomen Picte II.
• The trvve picture of a yonge dowgter of the Pictes III.
• The trvve picture of a man of na∣tion neigbour vnto the Picte IIII.
• The trvve picture of a vvomen nigbour to the Pictes V.
• index
• Faults escaped in the impression. the first nombre signiffie the page, the second the Linne.
• colophon
• map