Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625Lyon Gardiner Tyler C. Scribner's Sons, 1907 - 478 pages |
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... better then ours in England . All this march we could neither see Savage nor Towne . When it grew to be towards night , we stood backe to our Ships , we sounded and found it shallow water for a great way , which put us out of all hopes ...
... better then ours in England . All this march we could neither see Savage nor Towne . When it grew to be towards night , we stood backe to our Ships , we sounded and found it shallow water for a great way , which put us out of all hopes ...
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... better : which was strange , being that a Pistoll could not pierce it . Wee seeing the force of his Bowe , after- wards set him up a steele Target ; he shot again , and burst his arrow all to pieces . He presently pulled out another ...
... better : which was strange , being that a Pistoll could not pierce it . Wee seeing the force of his Bowe , after- wards set him up a steele Target ; he shot again , and burst his arrow all to pieces . He presently pulled out another ...
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... better upon this promise . These people have a great reverence to the Sunne above all other things : at the rising and setting of the same , they sit downe lifting up their hands and eyes to the Sunne , making a round Circle on the ...
... better upon this promise . These people have a great reverence to the Sunne above all other things : at the rising and setting of the same , they sit downe lifting up their hands and eyes to the Sunne , making a round Circle on the ...
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... better to know their censures at the first , and upon submission to reape pardon , then by seeking to smother it , to incurre the danger of a secret scandall : Im- boldening himselfe upon the curteous kindnesse of the best , and not ...
... better to know their censures at the first , and upon submission to reape pardon , then by seeking to smother it , to incurre the danger of a secret scandall : Im- boldening himselfe upon the curteous kindnesse of the best , and not ...
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... better towards it then my selfe , so farre foorth as my poore abilitie can or may stretch to , I thought good to publish it : but the Author being absent from the presse , it cannot be doubted but that some faults have escaped in the ...
... better towards it then my selfe , so farre foorth as my poore abilitie can or may stretch to , I thought good to publish it : but the Author being absent from the presse , it cannot be doubted but that some faults have escaped in the ...
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Page 10 - ... faire meddowes and goodly tall Trees, with such Fresh-waters running through the woods, as I was almost ravished at the first sight thereof.
Page 22 - ... salt, at a low tide full of slime and filth, which was the destruction of many of our men.
Page 81 - Within is a country that may have the prerogative over the most pleasant places of Europe, Asia, Africa, or America, for large and pleasant navigable rivers: heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for mans habitation being of our constitutions, were it fully manured and inhabited by industrious people.
Page 131 - Fort, but procured his owne libertie, and got himselfe and his company such estimation amongst them, that those Salvages admired him more then their owne Quiyouckosucks.
Page 156 - All these things were carried so pleasantly as within a weeke they became Masters : making it their delight to heare the trees thunder as they fell ; but the Axes so oft blistered their tender fingers, that many times every third blow had a loud othe to drowne the eccho...
Page 14 - Hee went formost, and all the rest of his people and our selves followed him up a steepe Hill where his Palace was settled. Wee passed through the Woods in fine paths, having most pleasant Springs which issued from the Mountaines : Wee also went through the goodliest Corne fieldes that ever was seene in any ny -1X Countrey. When wee came to Rapahannos Towne, hee 1688.] entertained us in good humanitie.
Page 12 - When we came first a Land they made a dolefull noise, laying their faces to the ground, scratching the earth with their nailes. We did thinke that they had beene at their idolatry. When they had ended their Ceremonies, they went into their houses and brought out mats and laid upon the ground, the chiefest of them sate all in a rank ; the meanest sort brought...
Page 326 - That some ten years ago being in Virginia, and taken prisoner by the power of Powhatan their...
Page 105 - Beyond the mountaines from whence is the head of the river Patawomeke, the Salvages report inhabit their most mortall enemies, the Massawomekes, upon a great salt water, which by all likelihood is either some part of Cannada, some great lake, or some inlet of some sea that falleth into the South sea.
Page 166 - Think you I am so simple, not to know it is better to eat good meat, lie well, and sleep quietly with my women and children, laugh and be merry with you, have copper, hatchets, or what I want being your friend...