’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 into the inner room, when she sat on the board standing alongside the house, and placed before us some wheat fermented, sodden venison, and fish, sodden, boiled, and roasted, melons, raw and sodden, roots of divers kinds, and fruits.  We were entertained with all love and kindness, and with as much bounty as we could possibly desire.  We found these people most gentle, loving, and faithful; void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age.’

’Beyond this island, called Roanoke, a main stands, very plentiful in fruits and other natural increase, together with many towns and villages