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... boat , we met divers savages in canoes , well loade [ d ] with the flesh of bears , deer and other beasts ; whereof we had part . Here we found mighty rocks , growing in some places above the ground as high as the shrubby trees , and ...
... boat , we met divers savages in canoes , well loade [ d ] with the flesh of bears , deer and other beasts ; whereof we had part . Here we found mighty rocks , growing in some places above the ground as high as the shrubby trees , and ...
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... boat . Here the Massawomeke targets stood us in good stead , for upon Mosco's words , we had set them about the forepart of our boat like a forecastle ; from whence we securely beat the savages from off the plain without any hurt : yet ...
... boat . Here the Massawomeke targets stood us in good stead , for upon Mosco's words , we had set them about the forepart of our boat like a forecastle ; from whence we securely beat the savages from off the plain without any hurt : yet ...
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... boat , instead of thoules [ oar locks ] we made sticks like bedstaves , to which we fastened so many of our Massawomeke targets , that environed her as waist clothes . The next morning we went up the river , and our friend Mosco ...
... boat , instead of thoules [ oar locks ] we made sticks like bedstaves , to which we fastened so many of our Massawomeke targets , that environed her as waist clothes . The next morning we went up the river , and our friend Mosco ...
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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