'He was very just of his promise; for many times we delivered him
merchandise upon his word, but ever he came within the day and
performed his promise. He sent us every day a brace or two of fat
bucks, conies, hares, and fish, the best in the world. He sent us
divers kinds of fruits, melons, walnuts, cucumbers, gourds, peas,
and divers roots and fruits, very excellent and good; and of their
country corn, which is very white, fair, and well-tasted, and
grows three times in five months. In May, they sow; in July, they
reap: in June, they sow; in August, they reap: in July, they sow;
in September, they reap. They cast the corn into the ground,
breaking a little of the soft turf with a wooden mattock.
Ourselves proved the soil, and put some of our peas into the
ground, and in ten days they were fourteen inches high. They have
also beans, very fair, of divers colors, and wonderful plenty;
some growing naturally and some in their gardens.'

Their advent to Roanoke Island is thus described:

'After they had been divers times aboard our vessels, myself with
seven others went twenty miles into the river that runs toward the
city of Skicoak, which river they call Occum, and the evening
following, we came to an island which they call Roanoke, distant
from the harbor by which we entered seven leagues. At the north
end thereof was a village of nine houses, built of cedar and
fortified round about with sharp trees, to keep out their enemies;
and the entrance into it made like a turnpike, very artificially.
When we came toward it, standing near unto the water side, the
wife of Grangamimeo, the king's brother, came running out to meet
us very cheerfully and friendly; her husband was not then in the
village. Some of her people she commanded to draw our boat on
shore; others she appointed to carry us on their backs to the dry
ground, and others to bring our oars into the house, for fear of
stealing. When we were come to the outer room, having five rooms
in her house, she caused us to sit down by a great fire, and
afterward took off our clothes and washed them and dried them
again. Some of the women washed our feet in warm water, and she
took great pains to see all things ordered in the best manner,
making great haste to dress some meat for us to eat. After we had
dried ourselves, she brought us int