Hakluytus Posthumus: Or Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others, Issue 18J. MacLehose and sons, 1906 - North America |
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aboord Arrowes Barke beasts beleeve Brigandines Cacique called Canoas Captaine Casqui cause Champlein Chiaha Christians Coast commanded comming Copper Corne Countrie cruell dayes divers entred farre fiftie fish five fortie foure gave Gold Governour ground hath himselfe Hispaniola houses hundred leagues Iland Indians Indies inhabited Irocois James Towne King Lake Land lodged Lord Maiz Majestie Master miles moneth Monsieur de Monts Monsieur de Poutrincourt Mountaines Myne neere North Pacaha passed peeces Percee Pinnace Port Royall Powhatan principall Province Realme returne River Rockes Sagamo Saguenay saile Saint Saint Croix Saint Malo Sault Savages selfe sent shewed ships shoare side sixe skinnes slaine Souldiers Souriquois Spaine Spaniards Spanish Sunne Tadousac Tercera thence things thirtie thither tooke Towne trees twentieth twenty tyrant unto victuals viii Voyage warre wherein whereof winde women wood Xalisco yeere
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Page 418 - If it had not pleased God to have put a terror in the savages hearts, we had all perished by those wild and cruel pagans, being in that weak estate as we were ; our men night and day groaning in every corner of the fort most pitiful to hear.
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Page 399 - Colony of sundry of our people into that part of America commonly called Virginia, and other parts and territories in America, either appertaining unto us or which are not now actually possessed by any Christian Prince or people, situate, lying, and being all along the sea Coasts between four and Thirty degrees of northerly latitude from the equinoctial line and Five and Forty degrees of the same latitude, and in the Main land between the same Four and Thirty, and Five and Forty degrees, and the...
Page 400 - WE, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and may in time bring the Infidels and Savages, living in those Parts, to human Civility, and to a settled and quiet Government; DO, by these our Letters...
Page 41 - Moscoso understanding of it, commanded him to be taken up by night, and to cast a great deal of sand into the mantles, wherein he was wound up, wherein he was carried in a canoe, and thrown into the midst of the river.