Travels and Works of Captain John Smith, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from Travels and Works of Captain John Smith, Vol. 1: President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England; 1580 1631 The present volume is intended to be a Literary Monument of one of the best and bravest of Englishmen. But though it may be regarded rather as a collection of materials for the Life, and Observations of an English Captain in the reign of James I., than any adequate Story of our colonization of Virginia, Bermuda, New England, Newfoundland, and some of the West Indian islands: yet there will be found in it, a large amount of irrefragable information, at first or second hand, respecting the first English Settlements in the New World. Two hundred and fifty years have now passed away since John Smith of Willoughby in Lincolnshire, accomplished his noble life; and yet in his native land he is unsung in Song, uncommemorated in stone or metal. Indeed, some, of late, would have him to be the Baron Munchausen of his Age; others, its swaggering and boasting Pistol: but this unmerited cloud of detraction and discredit, with this Volume, passes away for ever; and with a fuller knowledge, we delight to contemplate this hero of many fights, not only as the experienced and clear-headed practical man of business, but in his unstained character as an English Gentleman and Officer. What Sir Francis Drake was in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, that was Captain John Smith in the reign of her successor. The limes were changed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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