America and West Indies: October 1616

Page 18

This free content was digitised by double rekeying and sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Public Domain.

Citation:

October 1616



October.	This month five planters in Bermudas, fearing, as they say, to die with famine, built a boat of about two tons, little bigger than a double wherry, and, provided with victuals, committed themselves to the mercy of the ocean, and safely arrived in England. Great fears for the success of that plantation. Is hopeless of any profit from thence. [DOMESTIC Corresp. Jac. I., Vol. XC., No. 24, Cal, pp. 425–6.]