All that he saw delighted him.

'We went that day on shore,' he wrote in his narrative, 'in four places, to see the goodly sweet and smelling trees that were there.

We found them to be cedars, yews, pines, white elms, ash, willows, With many other sorts of trees to us unknown, but without any fruit.

The grounds where no wood is are very fair, and all full of peason [peas], white and red gooseberries, strawberries, blackberries, and wild corn, even like unto rye, which seemed to have been sowed and ploughed.

This country is of better temperature than any other land that can be seen, and very hot.