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... morning we weighed anchor and set sail for the Massachusetts Bay . The seven and twentieth day being Friday , we anchored in the afternoon in the Massachusetts Bay before Boston . Next day I went aboard of Mr. Hinderson , master of a ...
... morning we weighed anchor and set sail for the Massachusetts Bay . The seven and twentieth day being Friday , we anchored in the afternoon in the Massachusetts Bay before Boston . Next day I went aboard of Mr. Hinderson , master of a ...
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... morning they brought him as much more ; and then did they eat all the old , and reserved the new as they had done the other , which made him think they would fat him to eat him . Yet in this desperate estate , to defend him from the ...
... morning they brought him as much more ; and then did they eat all the old , and reserved the new as they had done the other , which made him think they would fat him to eat him . Yet in this desperate estate , to defend him from the ...
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... morning , so that they might meet us in Pequot River in the afternoon ; but the wind , being cross , bred in them a great perplexity what would become of us , knowing that we were but slenderly provided , both with munition and ...
... morning , so that they might meet us in Pequot River in the afternoon ; but the wind , being cross , bred in them a great perplexity what would become of us , knowing that we were but slenderly provided , both with munition and ...
Contents
Frontispiece TITLE PAGE Captain John Smith The Generall | 1 |
A Voyage to New England | 21 |
THE ARRIVAL OF THE English in Virginia De Bry The Great | 33 |
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