Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625Lyon Gardiner Tyler C. Scribner's Sons, 1907 - 478 pages |
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... divers workes . They are continually in warres , and will eate their enemies when they kill them , or any stranger if they take them . They will lap up mans spittle , whilst one spits in their mouthes , in a barbarous fashion like ...
... divers workes . They are continually in warres , and will eate their enemies when they kill them , or any stranger if they take them . They will lap up mans spittle , whilst one spits in their mouthes , in a barbarous fashion like ...
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... divers kinds and colours , and as goodly trees as I have seene , as Cedar , Cipresse , and other kindes . Going a little further we came into a little plat of ground full of fine and beautifull Strawberries , foure times bigger and ...
... divers kinds and colours , and as goodly trees as I have seene , as Cedar , Cipresse , and other kindes . Going a little further we came into a little plat of ground full of fine and beautifull Strawberries , foure times bigger and ...
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... divers other Fowles and Birds of divers and sundrie collours of crimson , Watchet , Yellow , Greene , Murry , ' and of divers other hewes naturally without any art using . We found store of Turkie nests and many Egges . If it i had not ...
... divers other Fowles and Birds of divers and sundrie collours of crimson , Watchet , Yellow , Greene , Murry , ' and of divers other hewes naturally without any art using . We found store of Turkie nests and many Egges . If it i had not ...
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... divers colours and kindes . There are also many fruites as Strawberries , Mulberries , Rasberries , and Fruites unknowne . There are many branches of this River , which runne flowing through the Woods with great plentie of fish of all ...
... divers colours and kindes . There are also many fruites as Strawberries , Mulberries , Rasberries , and Fruites unknowne . There are many branches of this River , which runne flowing through the Woods with great plentie of fish of all ...
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... divers of our people . It pleased God , after a while , to send those people which i were our mortall enemies to releeve us with victuals , as Bread , Corne , Fish , and Flesh in great plentie , which was the setting up of our feeble ...
... divers of our people . It pleased God , after a while , to send those people which i were our mortall enemies to releeve us with victuals , as Bread , Corne , Fish , and Flesh in great plentie , which was the setting up of our feeble ...
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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...