An accidence or The path-way to experience Necessary for all young sea-men, or those that are desirous to goe to sea, briefly shewing the phrases, offices, and words of command, belonging to the building, ridging, and sayling, a man of warre; and how to manage a fight at sea. Together with the charge and duty of every officer, and their shares: also the names, vveight, charge, shot, and powder, of all sorts of great ordnance. With the vse of the petty tally. Written by Captaine Iohn Smith sometimes governour of Virginia, and admirall of New England.

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Printer's name from STC. Running title reads: An accidence for yong sea-men. The last leaf is blank. Dedication on A2r: "To all the Right Honorable and most generous lords in England, and others". Variant: dedication to Sir Robert Heath. Enlarged and rearranged as "A sea grammar" and, later, "A sea-mans grammar". A variant (STC 22785) is dated 1627. Reproduction of a photostat of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.