Betty B.
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871 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2d ago
Betty B.’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Toward night we borrowed so near the shore that we grounded, so laid out our small anchor and heaved off again.
Then we borrowed on the bank in the channel and came aground again.
While the flood ran we heaved off again and anchored all night.
The eighteenth in the morning was fair weather and we rode still.
In the afternoon our master's mate went on land with an old savage, a governor of the country, who carried him to his house and made him good cheer.
The nineteenth was fair and hot weather, at the flowed being near eleven o'clock, we weighed, and ran higher up two leagues above the shoals, and had no less water than five fathoms.
We anchored and rowed in eight fathoms.
The people of the country came flocking aboard and brought us grapes and pompions, which we bought for trifles, and many brought us beaver skins and otter skins which
Which we bought for beads, knives, and hatchets, so we rode there all night.
The twentieth in the morning was fair weather, our master's mate with four men more went up with our boat to sound the river, and found two leagues above us, but two fathoms water, and the channel very narrow, and above that place seven or eight fathoms.
Toward night they returned and we rowed still all night.
The one and twentieth was fair weather, and the wind all southerly.
We determined yet once more to go farther up into the river to try what depth and breadth it did bear.
But much people resorted aboard, so we went not this day.
Our carpenter went on land and made a foreyard.
and our master and his mate determined to try some of the chief men of the country, whether they had any treachery in them.
So they took them down into the cabin and gave them so much wine and aqua vita that they were all merry, and one of them had his wife with them, which sate so modestly as any of our country women would do in a strange place.
In the end one of them was drunk and
which had been aboard of our ship all the time that we had been there, and that was strange to them, for they could not tell how to take it.
The canoes and folk went all on shore, but some of them came again and brought stropes of beads, some had six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and gave him, so he slept all night quietly.
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