Betty B.
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748 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Betty B.’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Our men went on land there and saw a great store of men, women and children who
who gave them tobacco at their coming on land.
So they went up into the woods and saw great store of very goodly oaks and some currants, for one of them came aboard and brought some dryad, and gave me some which were sweet and good.
This day many of the people came aboard, some in mantles of feathers and some in skins of diverse sorts of good furs.
Some women also came to us with hems
They had red copper tobacco pipes and other things of copper they did wear about their necks.
At night they went on land again, so we rode very quiet, but durst not trust them.
The six in the morning was fair weather and our master sent John Coleman with four other men in our boat over to the north side to sound the other river.
being four leagues from us.
They found by the day shoaled water two fathoms, but at the north of the river eighteen and twenty fathoms, and very good riding for ships, and a narrow river to the westward between two islands.
The lands, they told us, were as pleasant with grass and flowers and goodly trees as ever they had seen.
And very sweet smells came from them.
The tenth fair weather we rode still till twelve o'clock.
Then we weighed
And went over and found it shoaled all the middle of the river, for we could find but two fathoms and a half and three fathoms for the space of a league.
Then we came to three fathoms and four fathoms, and so to seven fathoms and anchored, and rode all night in soft ozy ground.
The bank is sand.
The eleventh was fair and very hot weather.
At one o'clock in the afternoon we weighed and went into the river.
The wind at south south west, little wind.
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