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A33345	A true and faithful account of the four chiefest plantations of the English in America to wit, of Virginia, New-England, Bermudus, Barbados : with the temperature of the air, the nature of the soil, the rivers, mountains, beasts, fowls, birds, fishes, trees, plants, fruits, &c. : as also, of the natives of Virginia, and New-England, their religion, customs, fishing, hunting, &c. / collected by Samuel Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1670 (1670)	Wing C4558; ESTC R17743	124,649	128

have Base Tenor Countertenor Mean and Trebble If any great person come to the Habitation of a Werowanee they spread a Mat for him to sit upon setting themselves just opposite to him then all the company with a tunable voice of shouting bid him welcome Then some of the chiefest make an Oration to him which they do with such vehemency that they sweat till they drop again Such victuals as they have they spend freely upon him and where his Lodging is prepared they set a woman finely painted with Red to be his bedfellow Their trading with the English is for Copper Beads c. for which they give Skins Fowl Fish Flesh Mais c. They have a Religion amongst them All things that were able to hurt them beyond their prevention they adore with Divine Worship As fire water thunder lightning The great Guns of the English Muskets Horses c. But their chief God is the Devil whom they call Oke and serve him more for fear than love In their Temples they have his image in an ilfavoured shape and adorned with Chains Copper and Beads and covered with a skin By him is commonly the Sepulchres of their Kings Their bodies are first bowelled then dried upon Hurdles About their neck and most of their joynts they hang Bracelets Chains of Copper Pearl and then they wrap them up in white Skins and roule them in Mats for their Winding-sheets laying them orderly in their Tombs which are Arches made of Mats the rest of their Wealth they set at their feet in Baskets For their ordinary Burials they dig a deep hole in the Earth and the Corps being wrapped in Skins and Mats with their Jewels they lay them upon sticks in the ground and then covet them with Earth The Burial being ended the Women having their faces painted with black sit twenty four hours in their houses mourning and lamenting by turns with such yellings and howlings as may express their great sorrow In the Woods they have some great houses filled with the Images of their Kings and Devils and Tombs of their predecessors which they count so holy that none but their Priests and Kings dare come into them They have a chief Priest differenced from the inferiour by the Ornaments of his head which are twelve sixteen or more Snake-skins stuffed with Moss the Skins of Weesels and other Vermin all which they tye by the Tails so as the Tails meet on the top of their head like a Tassel about which a Crown of Feathers the Skins hang down about him and almost cover his face The Priests faces are painted as ugly as they can devise and they carry Rattles in their hands Their Devotion is most in Songs which the chief Priests begins and the rest follow Their Solemn Meetings are upon great distress of want fear of Enemies times of Triumph and of gathering their Fruits at which time all both men women and children meet together The people are very Barbarous yet have they Government amongst them and their Governours are well obeyed by their subjects The form of their Government is Monarchical One of their Chief Rulers is called Powhatan from the place of his Habitation Some part of the Countrey came to him by Inheritance the rest by Conquest In several parts of his Dominion he hath Houses built like Arbors some thirty or fourty yards long and in each house provision for his entertainment according to the times About the Kings person is ordinarily attending a Guard of fourty or fifty of his tallest men every night upon the four quarters of his House stand four Sentinels and every half hour one from the Corps dugard doth hollow unto which each of the Sentinels doth answer If any fail he is extreamly beaten One House he hath wherein he keepeth his treasure of Skins Copper Pearl and Beads which he stores up against his burial none comes to this House but the Priest At the four corners stand as Sentinels four Images of a Dragon a Bear a Leopard and Giant-like man all ilfavouredly made according to their best workmanship Their King hath as many women as he will whereof when he lies on his bed one sitteth at his Head and another at his Feet But when he sits one sits on his Right Hand another on his Left When he is weary of any of them he bestows them upon those that deserves best at his Hands When he Dines or Sups one of his Women before and after Meat brings him Water in a Wooden platter to wash his Hands Another waits with a bunch of Feathers to wipe upon instead of a Towel and the Feathers were dried again His Kingdom descends not to his Sons but first to his brethren and after their decease to his sisters and to the heirs of his eldest sister They have no letters whereby to write or read the only Law whereby he Rules is Custome or else his Will is his Law which must be obeyed His inferiour Kings whom they call Werowances are tied to Rule by Customes yet have they power of Life and Death they all know their several Lands and Habitations and Limit to Fish Fowl and Hunt in but they hold all of their great King to whom they pay tribute of Skins Beads Copper Pearl Deer Turkies wild Beasts and Corn with great fear and adoration they all obey him At his feet they present whatsoever he commands at his frown their greatest spirit will tremble Offenders he causeth to be broyled to death or their brains to be beaten out their ordinary correction is to beat them with Cudgels for which yet they will never cry nor complain Anno Christi 1611. the L. de La Ware upon his return from Virginia gave this account of it That the number of men which he left there was above two hundred the most in health and provided of ten moneths victuals in the Store house besides other quantities of Corn and shew much friendship For the securing of the Colony he built three Fronts two of them being seated near Point Comfort had adjoyning to them a large circuit of ground open and fit for Corn. The third Fort was at the Falls upon an Island environed with Corn ground The Country is wonderful fertile and rich The English Cattel were much encreased and did thrive excellent well The kine in a hard Winter when the ground was covered with Snow lived with one anothers help upon the Grass which they found and prospered well the Swine encreased much That year Captain Argoll went with his Ship up Pembroke River where he met with the King of Pastancy and procured of him and his Subjects Eleven hundred bushes of Corn besides three hundred for his own Company with which he returned to James's Town and delivered it into the Store Then did he return and discover Pembroke River to the head of it which was about Sixty five Leagues within Land and Navigable for any Ship then marching into the

they are from six to twenty in an house Their houses are in the mid'd of their Fields or Gardens which are plots of ground From twenty to one hundred or two hundred of these houses stand something near together Men Women and Children have their several names according to the phansie of their Parents Their Women are easily delivered of child yet they love their children very dearly and to make them hardy in the coldest Mornings they wash them in the Rivers and by Painting and Ointments they so tan their skins that after a year or two no Weather will hurt them The Men spend their time in Fishing Hunting Wars and such manly Exercises scorning to be seen about any Womanly Exercise which makes the Women very painful and the men oft very idle The women and children do all the work they make Mats Baskets Pots Morters they pound their Corn make their Bread prepare their victuals plant and gather their Corn bear all kinds of burdens c. Their Fire they kindle by chafing a dry pointed stick in a hole of little square piece of Wood which taking fire will kindle Moss Leaves and such dry things In March and April is their Fishing time wherein they live on Fish Turkies and Squerrils In May and June they plant their Fields and then they live most upon Acrons Walnuts and Fish Some upon Crabs Oisters land Tortoises Strawberries Mulberries c. In June July and August they feed upon the roots of Tocknough Berries Fish and green Wheat and their bodies alter with their Diet as those of Deer and wild beasts do And accordingly they are Fat or Lean Strong or Weak They use much their Bows and Arrows in Fishing Hunting and the Wars They bring their Bows to the form of ours by scraping them with a Shell Their Arrows are made of strait young Sprigs which they head with bone two or three inches long With these they shoot at Squirils Other Arrows they have made of Reeds pieced with Wood and headed with Christals or Flint c. For Knives they have the splinters of a Reed wherewith they cut the Feathers of their Arrows into form With these Knives they will joynt a Deer or any other Beast shape their Shooes Buskings Mantles c. To make the notch of their Arrows they have the Tooth of a Bever set in a stick with which they grate it by degrees Their Arrow heads they quickly make with a little bone which they ever wear at their bracer of a splint of stone or glass in form of a Heart which they glew to their Arrows their Glew they make of the Sinews of Deer and the tops of Deer Horns which will not dissolve in cold water In their Wars they use round Targets made of the Bark of Trees and Swords of Wood or the Horn of a Deer put through a piece of Wood in the form of a Pickax Their Fishing is much in Boats which they make of one Tree by burning and scraping with Stones and Shels till they have made it in the form of a Trough Some of them are a Ell deep and fourty and fifty foot long and will bear from ten to fourty men according to their bigness For Oars they use paddles and sticks with which they will Row faster than our Barges The Women use to spin the Bark of Trees Deer Sinews or a kind of Grass called Pemmenaud of which they make a very good thred which serves for many uses about their houses Apparel Fishing-nets Lines for Angles Their hooks are either a bone grated in the form of a hooked Pin or of the splinter of a Bone tied to the cleft of a little stick and with the end of the Line they tie on the bait They also use long Arrows tied to a Line with which they shoot at Fishes in the River or Darts which they throw at them They take extream pains in their Huntings and Fishings whereunto they are enured from their Child-hood And by their continual rangings about they know all the places and Advantages most frequented with Deer Beasts Fishes Fowls Rooks Bemes At their Huntings they leave their Habitations and in several companies go to the most Desert places with their Families towards the Mountains or heads of Rivers where there is plenty of Game It 's a marvel how they can pass these Deserts of three or four dayes journey over without missing their way The Women bear their Hunting Houses after them with Corn Acrons Mortars and Bagg and Baggage which they use When they come to the place of Exercise every man endeavours to shew his best Dexterity for hereby they get their Wives They will shoot level about fourty yards near the Mark and one hundred and twenty is their best at Random When they have found the Deer they environ them with Fires and betwixt the Fires they place themselves and some take their stand in the mid'st The Deer being frighted with the Fires and their voices they chase them so long within that Circle that oftimes they kill six eight ten or fifteen at a hunting Sometimes also when they find them in a point of Land they force them into a River where with their Boats they kill them When they have shot a Dear by Land they follow him like Blood-hounds by the blood and stain and oftimes so take him Hares Partridges Turkies or Eggs fat or lean young or old they devour all they can come by When they intend Wars the Werowances Corks consult with their Priests and Connivers and Ancient Alleys and Friend They have Captains over every Nation which are lusty young men They rarely make Wars for Lands or Goods but for Women and Children Before the battel they paint and disguise themselves in the fiercest manner they can devise Either Army hath his General they take their stands a Musquet shot one from another Rank themselves fifteen a breast and so place themselves that the Rear can shoot as well as the Front Then from either part a Messenger is sent with these conditions That whosoever is vanquished upon their submission within two dayes after shall live but their Wives and Children shall be prize for the Conquerors upon the return of the Messengers they approach in their Order On each Flank is a Serjeant and in the Reer a Lieutenant all duly keeping their places yet leaping and singing as they go Upon the first flight of their Arrows they give an horrible shout and when their Arrows are spent they joyn together charging and retiring each rank seconding the former As they get advantage they catch their Enemy by the hair of his head and then down he goes and with his Wooden Sword he beats out his brains c. Their Musick is a thick Cane on which they Pipe as on a Recorder For their Wars they have a great deep Platter of Wood which they cover with a skin upon which they beat as upon a Drum of these they

of Spain and afterwards many Coppies thereof were drawn and sent abroad by Ambassadors and other persons to several Princes and States in Europe Hist. of this Iron age 13. In Brasile is a certain Beast called a Tamandua or Ant-Bear of the bignesse of a great dog more round than long and the tail above twice so long as the body and so full of hair that under it he shelters himself from rain heat cold and wind His head is small and hath a thin snout his mouth round with a tongue three quarters of a yard long he is diligent in seeking Ant-hills which he teareth with his claws and then thrusts in his long tongue upon which the Ants run and when it is full he licks them in and this is all his food Pur. Pil. v. 4. p. 1301. 14. The Armadillo is of the bignesse of a Pig and of a white colour It hath a long snout and the body is covered with shels like Plates wherewith they are armed for they are so hard that no arrow will pierce them except in the Flanks where they are softer their flesh is good to eat they dig holes in the ground with their snouts in which they lye Idem 15. The Porcupine hath bristles or quils white and black of a span and an half long which they can cast and they have this quality that where one of these bristles enters into the flesh if it be not pulled out presently it will work it selfe quite through they are of a good flesh and taste 16. The Civet-Cat exceeds the Castor for bignesse her head is little her eyes clear hath a long muzzle sharp and offensive teeth Her hair is parti-coloured harsh and bristley yellow above and whiter downwards The pocket wherein the Civet is bred is neer the genitory which is taken forth with a spoon or stick But when she is wild she casts it forth of her own accord and by the scent it is found by the passengers 17. The Lyons in Affrick are more fierce than in colder Countryes here was one of their skins brought into England which from the snout to the top of the tail contained one and twenty foot in length They engender backwards as do Camels Elephants Rhinoceroses Ounces and Tygers They spare such men as prostrate themselves to them and prey rather upon men than women and not at all on Infants except compelled by hunger His tail is his Scepter by which he expresses his passion He shrinks not at danger except some covert of woods hides him from witnesses and then he will take the benefit of flight which otherwise he seems to disdain 18. The Hyaena hath no joints in her neck and therefore stirs not her neck but with the bending of her whole body She hath one continued tooth through her whole mouth 19. In Africk are many wild Asses whereof one male hath many females and he is so jealous that he bites off the stones of the young males if the suspicious female prevent him not by bringing forth in a close place 20. The Dabuh is a simple Creature like to a Wolf but that his legs and feet are like to a mans they which know his haunt with a Taber singing will bring him out of his den and captivate his ears with their Musick whilst another captivateth his legs with a rope 21. The Zebra is a very beautiful Creature resembling a curiously shaped horse but not all out so swift all over-laid with party coloured laces and guards from head to tail 22. In Sofala there is a certain creature called Inhazaras as big as a hog somewhat like with thin black hair having on his hinder feet five fingers like unto a mans and four on his forefeet they live meerly upon Ants by thursting their tongues which are two spans and an half long into an Ant-hil whereon the Ants running they pull them into their mouths and so eat them some call them Ant-Bears Pur. Pil. 23. There is in Affrica a certain monster called Pongo in the whole proportion like unto a man but that it is bigger It hath a mans face hollow eyes long hair upon the brows his face and ears being without hair but his body is all hairy of a dunish colour c. He differs from a man only in his legs which have no calves he goes alwayes upright upon his legs and he carries his hands clasped in the nape of his neck when he walkes upon the ground They use to sleep in trees and live upon fruits and nuts Idem v. 2. p. 982. 24. In Congo there is a strange Creature as big as a Ram that hath wings like a Dragon a long tail and great chaps with diverse rows of teeth They feed upon raw flesh Idem p. 1003. 25. In Affrica there is a beast called a Dabuk in bignesse and shape resembling a Wolf saving that his legs feet are like a mans He useth to take dead men out of their graves and eat them Idem p. 847. 26. In the Kingom of Mexico there are Kine with bunches on their backs about the bigness of our bulls having little horns and more hair on their foreparts than behind which is like wooll On the back-bone they have maines like horses and long hair from their Knees downward with much long hair on their throats They are meat drink shooes houses fire vessels and their masters whole substance 27. Other Creatures there are as big as horses which the Spaniards for their fine Wooll call Sheep One of their horns usually weigheth fifty pounds P. Pil. v. 4. p. 1561. 28. In Virginia is a beast called a Possown the female whereof hath a bag under her belly from whence she letteth forth her young ones and taketh them in again at her pleasure Idem p. 1772. 29. In Socotera are Sheep whose tails weigh twenty eight pounds a peece which therefore are usually cut off from the Ewes least they should hinder their breeding 30. In the Great Mogols Countrey there are Asses with horns whereof they make diverse sorts of drinking cups of excellent vertue Some judging them to be the right Unicorns horn Idem p. 436. 31. Most certain it is that the Irish Cows will not give down their Milk unless their own Calves be set by their sides either alive or else the skin of the dead Calf must be stuffed with straw and set by them Camb. Brit. of Ireland p. 1145. 32. In the Island of Orknay the Ewes are of such fecundity that they bring forth constantly two and many times three Lambs a peece There be neither ravenous nor venemous creatures there nor if transported thither will they live in that Island Description of Scotl. 33. There are three sorts of Camels the first sort are gross and tall of stature these will usually carry one thousand pound weight a peece when they are to be loaden being beaten on the knees and neck with a cudgel they will kneel down and when they feel their load sufficient they will rise