If they be poore, then are you to consider of the soile, and how by any
possibilitie the same may be made to inrich them, that hereafter they may
haue something to purchase the cloth withall.
If you enter into any maine by portable riuer, and shall find any great
woods, you are to note what kind of timber they be of, that we may know
whether they are for pitch, tarre, mastes, dealeboord, clapboord, or for
building of ships or houses, for so, if the people haue no vse of them,
they may be brought perhaps to vse.
Not to venture the losse of any one man.
You must haue great care to preserue your people, since your number is so
small, and not to venture any one man in any wise.
To bring home besides merchandize certaine trifles.
Bring home with you (if you may) from Cambalu or other ciuil place, one or
other yong man, although you leaue one for him.
Also the fruites of the Countreys if they will not of themselues dure, drie
them and so preserue them.
And bring with you the kernels of peares and apples, and the stones of such
stonefruits as you shall find there.
