The English in Virginia, April 1607

They landed and could see nothing but meadows and tall trees— cypress, nearly three fathoms about at the roots, rising straight for sixty or eighty feet without a branch. In the woods were cedars, oaks, and walnut trees; some beech, some elm, black walnut, ash, and sassafras; mul- berry trees in groves; honey-suckle and other vines hanging in clusters on many trees. They stepped on violets and other sweet flowers, many kinds in many colors; straw- berries and rasp- berries were on the ground. Blackbirds with red shoulders were flying about and many small birds, some red, some blue; the woods were full of deer; and running everywhere fresh water— brooks, rundles, springs and creeks. In the twilight, through the thickets and tall grass, creeping upon all fours—the savages, their bows in their mouths.