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Excerpt from The Trve Travels, Adventvres and Obervations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America, Vol. 1: Beginning About the Yeere 1593, and Continued to This Present 1629
For my Sea Grammar (caused to bee printed by my worthy friend, Sir Samuel Saltonstall) hath found such good entertainment abroad, that I have beene importuned by many noble persons, to let this also passe the Presse. Many of the most eminent Warriers, and others, what their swords did, their penns writ: Though I bee never so much their inferiour, yet I hold it no great errour, to follow good examples; nor repine at them, will doe the like.
And now my most Honourable good Lords, I know not to whom I may better present it, than to your Lordships, whose friendships, as I conceive, are as much to each others, as my duty is to you all; and because you are acquainted both with my endeavours, and writings, I doubt not but your honours will as well accept of this, as of the rest, and Patronize it under the shadow of your most noble vertues, which I am ever bound in all duty to reverence, and under which I hope to have shelter, against all stormes that dare threaten.
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