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Page 160
... better be procured than one at the first , when the common stock defrayed all fraughts , wages , provisions and magazines , whereby the ships are so pestered , as occasions much sickness , diseases and mortality : for though all the ...
... better be procured than one at the first , when the common stock defrayed all fraughts , wages , provisions and magazines , whereby the ships are so pestered , as occasions much sickness , diseases and mortality : for though all the ...
Page 168
... better , if not worse ; nor did they all , convert any of those [ natives ] we sent them to England for that purpose . So doting of mines of gold , and the South Sea ; that all the world could not have devised better courses to bring us ...
... better , if not worse ; nor did they all , convert any of those [ natives ] we sent them to England for that purpose . So doting of mines of gold , and the South Sea ; that all the world could not have devised better courses to bring us ...
Page 187
... better than ours ; and in a short time cause the savages to do them as good service as their own men , as I did in Virginia ; and yet neither use cruelty nor tyranny amongst them : a consequence well worth putting in practice ; and till ...
... better than ours ; and in a short time cause the savages to do them as good service as their own men , as I did in Virginia ; and yet neither use cruelty nor tyranny amongst them : a consequence well worth putting in practice ; and till ...
Contents
John Smith and the Promise of New England Selec | 125 |
PART | 149 |
John Smiths Written Testimony to the Commission | 158 |
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