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William Strachey (1572-1621) was a passenger aboard the Sea Venture which ran aground off the coast of Bermuda. He visited Jamestown for abut a year and wrote a glossary of the Powhatan language and an account of his experiences.

Source: William Strachey, The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia, in Hakluyt Society, Works (London, 1849), 70-82. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45493/page/n223/mode/2up