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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF Captain John Smith

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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF Captain John Smith

AN ACCIDENCE or the Path-way to Experience

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TO ALL THE RIGHT Honorable And most Generous Lords in England, and Others: Especially of his Majesties Privy Councell, and Councell of Warre.

TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL Sir Robert Heath, Knight etc.

TO THE READER; And All Generous And Noble Adventurers by Sea; And Well-Wishers to Navigation. Especially The Masters, Wardens, and Assistance of the Trinity-House.

AN ACCIDENCE for Young Sea-men: Or, Their Path-way to Experience.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO

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A SEA GRAMMAR ...

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TO ALL THE RIGHT Honourable, and most generous Lords in England, especially those of his Majesties Privy Councell, and Councell of Warre.

TO THE READER And All Worthy Adventurers by Sea, and well wishers to Navigation.

TO HIS WELL Deserving friend Captaine John Smith.

TO THE MUCH deserving Captaine, John Smith.

TO HIS WORTHILY-deserving friend Captaine John Smith.

IN LAUDEM NOBILISSIMI viri Johannis Smith.

TO HIS FRIEND Captaine Smith, on his Grammar.

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Chapter I. Of Dockes, and their definitions.

Chapter II. How to build a ship with the definitions of all the principall names of every part of her principall timbers, also how they are fixed one to another, and the reasons of their use.

Chapter III. How to proportion the Masts and Yards for a Ship, by her Beame and Keele.

Chapter IIII. The names of all the Masts, Tops, and Yards belonging to a Ship.

Chapter V. How all the Tackling and Rigging of a Ship is made fast one to another, with their names, and the reasons of their use.

Chapter VI. What doth belong to the Boats and Skiffe with the definition of all those thirteene Ropes which are onely properly called Ropes belonging to a ship and the Boat and their use.

Chapter VII. The names of all sorts of Anchors, Cables, and Sailes, and how they beare their proportions, with their use. Also how the Ordnances should bee placed, and the goods stowed in a ship.

Chapter VIII. The charge and duty of the Captaine of a ship, and every Office and Officer in a man of Warre.

Chapter IX. Proper Sea tearmes for dividing the company at Sea, and stearing, sayling, or moring a Ship in faire weather, or in a storme.

Chapter X. Proper tearmes for the Winds, Ebbes, Floods, and Eddies, with their definitions, and an estimate of the depth of the Sea, by the height of the Hils and the largenesse of the Earth.

Chapter XI. Proper Sea tearmes belonging to the good or bad condition of Ships, how to finde them and amend them.

Chapter XII. Considerations for a Sea Captaine in the choise of his Ship, and in placing his Ordnance. In giving Chase, Boording, and entering a man of warre like himselfe, or a defending Merchant man.

Chapter XIII. How to manage a fight at Sea, with the proper tearmes in a fight largely expressed, and the ordering of a Navy at Sea.

Chapter XIV. The names of all sorts of great Ordnance, and their appurtenances, with their proper tearmes and expositions, also divers observations concerning their shooting, with a Table of proportion for their weight of metall, weight of powder, weight of shot, and there best at randome and point blanke inlarged.

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Chapter XV. How they divide their shares in a man of Warre, what Bookes and Instruments are fit for a Sea-man, with divers advertisements for Sea men, and the use of the petty Tally.

Instruments fitting for a Sea-man.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

THE TRUE TRAVELS, Adventures, and Observations of Captaine John Smith

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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, William Earle of Pembroke, Lord Steward of his Majesties most Honourable Houshold. Robert Earle of Lindsey, Great Chamberlaine of England. Henrie Lord Hunsdon, Vicount Rochford, Earle of Dover. And all your Honourable Friends and Well-willers.

TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO MY NOBLE brother and friend, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS VALIANT and deserving friend, Captaine John Smith.

TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS WORTHY FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO MY WELL DESERVING friend, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS APPROVED friend, the Authour; Captaine John Smith.

TO THE VALOUROUS and truly-vertuous souldier, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS NOBLE FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS TRULY deserving friend, Captaine John Smith.

THE TRUE TRAVELS, ADVENTURES, AND OBSERVATIONS Of Captaine John Smith, in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America: beginning about the yeere 1593, and continued to this present 1629.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO The True Travels

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ADVERTISEMENTS for the Unexperienced Planters of New England, or Any Where

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TO THE MOST Reverend Father in God, George Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterburie his Grace, Primate and Metrapolitan of all England: and The Right Reverend Father in God, Samuel Lord Arch-Bishop of Yorke his Grace, Primate and Metrapolitan of England.

ADVERTISEMENTS: Or, The Path-way to Experience to erect a Plantation.

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Fragment A. 1613. SAMUEL PURCHAS'S First Mention of John Smith

Fragment B. 1613. THE SMITH/HOLE MAP Reported in Print

Fragment C. 1613. SAMUEL PURCHAS and Smith's True Relation

Fragment D. 1613. ENGLISH DOMESTICATED BOARS Frighten Indians

Fragment E. 1616. CAPT. EDWARD BRAWNDE'S Letter to John Smith

Fragment F. December 1616. A SPANISH SUMMARY of Correspondence Involving "Juan Smith"

Fragment G. 1623? JULIUS CAESAR'S REMEDY for "Panique Feares"

Fragment H. 1624. TWO COMPLEMENTARY COUPLETS in Smith's Generall Historie

Fragment I. 1625. SAMUEL PURCHAS'S MENTION of Smith's "Fiery Torches"

Fragment J. 1625. SAMUEL PURCHAS'S PROTOTYPE of Smith's True Travels

SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY for Fragment J

THE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES of Captaine John Smith in divers parts of the world, begun about the yeere 1596.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION TO Fragment J

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Fragment K. 1627. Smith'S COMMENDATORY VERSES for John Taylor

Fragment L. 1628. Smith'S COMMENDATORY VERSES for Robert Norton

AUXILIARY DOCUMENTS

Document i. RECORD OF Capt. John Smith's Baptism

Document ii. LAST WILL of George Smith, Father of Captain John

Document iii. INVENTORY OF George Smith's Property

Document iv. CAPT. John Smith'S Last Will

Document v. CONFIRMATION OF

Document vi. ORIGINAL EPITAPH in St. Sepulchre's Church, London

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEXES

INDEX OF INDIAN WORDS

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Editions

Early:

1631.

ADVERTISEMENTS ∥ For the unexperienced Planters of ∥ New England,
or any where. ∥ OR, ∥ The Path-way to experience to erect a ∥ Plantation. ∥ With
the yearely proceedings of this Country in Fishing ∥ and Planting, since the yeare
1614. to the yeare 1630. ∥ and their present estate. ∥ Also how to prevent the greatest
inconveniences, by their ∥ proceedings in Virginia, and other Plantations, ∥ by approved
examples. ∥ With the Countries Armes, a description of the Coast, ∥ Harbours, Habitations,
Land-markes, Latitude and ∥ Longitude: with the Map, allowed by our
Royall ∥ King Charles. ∥ [Rule] ∥ By Captaine John Smith, sometimes Governour
of ∥ Virginia, and Admirall of New-England. ∥ [Rule] ∥ London, ∥ Printed by
John Haviland, and are to be sold by ∥ Robert Milbourne, at the Grey-hound
∥ in Pauls Church-yard. 1631. ∥

Quarto, pp. [8], 40, with the arms of New England on the verso of the title page
and with Smith's map of New England inserted (in its seventh state [Joseph Sabin
et al., eds., A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, XX (New York, 1927–1928),
220]). A–F in fours. For further details, see ibid., 220–221.

Modern:

1833.

Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, 3d Ser., III (Cambridge, Mass.).

1865.

Repr. by W. Veazie, with expressed indebtedness to Charles Deane for "valuable
historical information" (Boston).

1884, etc.

Captain John Smith ... Works, 1608–1631, ed. Edward Arber (Birmingham).
See the list of issues of the Arber text in the General Introduction in Volume I.

1912.

Forerunners and Competitors of the Pilgrims and Puritans ..., ed. Charles Herbert
Levermore, II (Brooklyn, N.Y.).