The 23 day our skiffe went to fish, and tooke prety store: we sent our main-top ashore to be mended, and many of our men to wash their cloaths; also I went myselfe with them aland, to take order that no man should any wayes offend the Indians.
Portable ouens to bake in. In the mean time the general with all the rest of the chiefest gentlemen, came ashore, and viewed the place, and appointed out she fittest roome to set vp our smithes forge, and ouens to make our biscuits, and place for our coopers to trim our water caske.
Iohn Whithall. The 24 day at foure of the clocke, before day, we heard one call for a boat on the North shore, to whom I sent my skiffe, who brought aboord one named Iohn Whithall, an Englishman, which is maried here in this place, and with him two of his Indians; whom I entertetned vntill I sent word to the generall to prepare himselfe to receiue him: in which time he and I talked of many seuerall particulars.
Good counsel by the aforesayd Englishmen giuen to our men. About sixe a clocke I conueyed him aboord the admirall: there he discouered vnto vs what had bene done at the towne, as fortification, and sending their wiues away, &c. aduising vs to receiue no more delayes, but to come vp presently before the towne with our ships.
About ten a clocke came a came a canoa, and brought downe Ioseph Dory and Steuen Repose, who tolde vs that on Saturday the gouernour would meete our generall and talke with him, praying vs in the meane time to vse our ordinary businesse of cooperage, carpenters worke, filling water, fishing, and washing, &c. but not to set vp forge, nor ouen, vntill speech had with the gouernour. After this answere, we dined together aboord the gallion: after dinner we left the messengers sitting in the cabbin, and went vpon the poope; where the generall demanded the aduice of his assistants, whether it were not best to stay these men while we had them or not, or whether it were best to go vp with our ships to the towne or no.
Whereunto ech man paused to make answere: wherefore I deliueren my opinion: which was, that we were forbidden to vse violence to any nation for trade.
The Minion of London sometime in Brasil for traffique. Secondly, I considered that diuers of our nation, worshipfull merchants, and now aduenturers in this voyage, had set out the Minion hither, and begun a trade, which with our forcible dealing might be spoiled, and our nation brought in hatred.
