 | John Smith - America - 1819 - 278 pages
...Beads, Swords, and Tobacco pipes for presents. Such great and well proportioned men are seldome scene, for they seemed like Giants to the English, yea and to the neighbours, yet seemed of an honest and simple disposition, with much adoe restrained from adoring... | |
 | Marshall Tufts - Fur trade - 1833 - 248 pages
...Susquehannocks came to us with tobacco, skins, &.c. for presents. Such great and well proportioned men are seldom seen, for they seemed like giants to the English and to their neighbor*, yet appeared to be of an honest and simple disposition, & Vuh much ado were... | |
 | John Leeds Bozman - Maryland - 1837 - 330 pages
...beads, swords, and tobacco pipes for presents. Such great and wellproportioned men are seldom seene, for they seemed like giants to the English, yea and to the neighbours, yet seemed of an honest and simple disposition, with much adoe restrained from adoring... | |
 | Seba Smith - Indians of North America - 1841 - 214 pages
...describes facts that came within his knowledge, his truth and candor may always be relied upon. He says, " Such great and wellproportioned men are seldom seen;...giants to the English, yea, and to the neighbors, yet seemed of an honest and simple disposition, with much ado restrained from adoring us as gods."... | |
 | William Strachey - Indians of North America - 1849 - 278 pages
...swords, beades, and tobacco-pipes for presents. Such great and well-proportionedi men are seldome seene, for they seemed like giants to the English, — yea, and to the neighbours, — yett seemed of an honest and simple disposicion, with much adoe restrayned 1 The Susquchannah... | |
 | Charles De Wolf Brownell - Indians - 1857 - 736 pages
...different races among them presented considerable discrepancy. Of the Sasquesahanocks, Smith says : " Such great and well-proportioned men are seldom seen, for they seemed like giants to the English. — For their language, it may well beseem their proportions, sounding f/oni them as a voice in a vault."... | |
 | Charles De Wolf Brownell - Indians - 1860 - 736 pages
...different races among them presented considerable discrepancy. Of the Sasquesahanocks, Smith says : " Such great and well-proportioned men are seldom seen, for they seemed like giants to the English. For their language, it may well beseem their proportions, sounding from them as a voice in a vault."... | |
 | George Alsop - Maryland - 1869 - 194 pages
...Beads, swords and Tobacco pipes for presents. Such great and well proportioned men are seldome seene, for they seemed like Giants to the English ; yea and to the neighbours, yet seemed of an honest and simple disposition, with much adoe restrained from adoring... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - Baltimore (Md.) - 1874 - 786 pages
...Beads. Swords, and Tobacco pipes for presents. Such great and well proportioned men are seldome scene, for they seemed like Giants to the English, yea and to the neighbours, yet seemed of an honest and simple disposition, with much adoe restrained from adoring... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1890 - 664 pages
...bows, arrows, targets, beads, swords, and tobacco pipes for presents. Such great and well proportioned men are seldom seen ; for they seemed like giants to the English, yea and to the neighbors, yet seemed of an honest and simple disposition, with much ado restrained from adoring us as gods. Those... | |
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But to proceed, sixty of those Susquehannocks came to us with skins, bows, arrows, targets, beads, swords, and tobacco pipes for presents. Such great and well proportioned men are seldom seen ; for they seemed like giants to the English... 
