Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... 1607- much Cruelty and Inhumanity for thefe fcanty and ill ** --v----'conditioned Provifions; which Management however con EJ-ward- tinued, more or lefs, the whole time of that Gentleman's fTin'gficlJ Adminiftration of the Affairs of the Company and Colony. Prefident. This unwholefome Food, together with their continual Toil and Labour in the Extremity of the Heat, carried off fifty of the Company by September; in which Number was Captain Gofnold, the firft Mover and Projector of the whole Bufinefs. The reft, that furvived by the Care of Captain Smith, and the Skill and Diligence of Mr. Thomas Wotton, their Surgeon-General, fubfifted on Crabs and Sturgeon, till September. But the Prefident, all this while, had felt neither Want nor Sicknefs. For he had embezzled the public Oatmeal, Sack, Aqua-vit
