Smith as a Writer. — (Tyler, 16-38; Richardson, I., 63-72.) Of the nine works, with American themes, written by Smith, three were composed in Virginia. His first book, written during the thirteen months following the establishment of the colony, and published in London the next year, is doubly interesting, in that it is the first book produced on this continent, and that it tells in detail the story of those memorable months at Jamestown. Its full title is as follows:
"A True Relation of such occurrences and accidents of noate as hath happened in Virginia since the first planting of that Collony, which is now resident in the south part thereof, till the last return from thence.... Written by Captaine Smith, Coronell of said Collony, to a worshipfull friend of his in England. London 1608."
Smith's second work was a very spicy reply to the seven questions put by the London Company, to him as governor of Virginia. With this, Smith sent his third American work, entitled A Map of Virginia, etc., which, however, was not published until 1612.
2. MASSACHUSETTS.
The Pilgrims. — (Bradford and Winslow's Journal, and Bradford's History of the Plymouth Plantation; Palfrey's History of New England; Fiske's Beginnings of New England, 66-104; Doyle's The Puritan Colonies, Vol. II.; Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims; Drake's The Making of New England, Bancroft, Vol. 1., 194–214.) The small band of adventurers who sought Virginia in 1606, led on by dreams of "pearl and gold," were swept along by a three days' storm and driven as by
