Nelson Family Juvenilia
Box 1 Folder 57
Settlement on Round Continent. Chapter 2 - n.d.

Settlements on Round Continent.

Chap 2

The Second Voyage Colony City

The First Massacre

After half a year of patient waiting the King granted his request

[Illustration of Spainoville Flag]

And giving him two ships and one thousand men women and children he after granting James Vertigo a tract of land on the continent that he had discovered James Vertigo set sail for the new continent which he called Round Continent in honor of King Round of Spainoville this time he did not suffer from the cold as the ships were large and warm they landed at fort New Found where they found the five men still alive and well after getting used to the climate. Vertigo and fifty of his men went exploring into the center of the Continent here they found near a river a fine flat fertile country which they soon brought the rest of the colony too and soon had a large town of one thousand inhabitants.

[Illustration of a scene in Colony City. Main St, 1608]

The people were frugal and and industrious and the colony prospered the new city was now called Colony City and in 1608 it was the capital of the adjacent colonies with three thousand inhabitants up to this time there [page break] has been no Indian wars but in the year 1612 as the people were sleeping the Indians charged through the village burning houses and killing people

[Illustration of a Matchicus, the colonists gun 1612 to 1630]

But the colonists taking their guns started in pursuit of the Indians they chased them all night and just at daybreak boldly attacked them in their camp the village was burned and the Indians were nearly all killed for this massacre the savage Souomes headed by their chief Canacka performed many deeds of cruelty burning houses and killing people in every direction but at least Donald Ferry at the head of one thousand white men surrounded Canacka in a great cave and killed all the Indians and their chief

[Illustration of an Indian war club]

This scared the other tribes [page break] that it was not the island that he had set out to discover but a continent that was very large indeed very soon Vertigo leaving five men in the fort started for Spainoville in a cedar ship passing around the southern end of B.C.

[Illustration of James Vertigo 1606]

by the time they got through the frigid zone the men were frostbitten and the grape vine sails were frozen stiff it took them a long time to get to Spainoville but when they got there Vertigo told the king what he had seen and urging more ships and men intending to make a permanent

[Enclosed in a separate text box:] When the fort was gone Vertigo and his men made a ship out of the cedars that grew on R.C. taking wild grape vines and twisting them together for sails and thus they sailed away the coast[?] was not quite as warm as the other ship was and this accounts for the men getting bitten

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