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A35222	The English empire in America, or, A prospect of His Majesties dominions in the West-Indies ... with an account of the discovery, scituation, product, and other excellencies of these countries : to which is prefixed a relation of the first discovery of the New World called America, by the Spaniards, and of the remarkable voyages of several Englishmen to divers places therein : illustrated with maps and pictures by R.B., author of Englands monarchs, &c., Admirable curiosities in England, &c., Historical remarks of London, &c., The late wars in England, &c., and The history of Scotland and Ireland.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1685 (1685)	Wing C7319; ESTC R21113	146,553	216

which they hide a Mile asunder when the Indians hunt him which is commonly in Winter they run him down sometimes in half a day otherwhile a whole day but never give over till he is tired the Snow being usually four Foot deep and the Beast very heavy he sinks every st●p and as he runs breaks down the Trees in his way with his Horns as big as a Mans Thigh at last they get up and pierce him with their Lances upon which the poor Creature groans and walks on heavily till at length he sinks and falls like a ruined Building making the Earth shake becoming a Sacrifice to the Victors who cut him up and making a Fire near the place they there Boil and eat their Venison fetching their drink from the next Spring being unacquainted with any other till the French and English taught them the use of that cursed Liquor called Rum Rumbullion or Kill-devil stronger than Spirit of Wine drawn from the dross of Sugar and Sugar Canes which they love dearer than their lives wherewith if they had it they would be perpetually drunk though it hath killed many of them especially old Women Their Wars are with their Neighbouring Tribes but the Mowhawks especially who are Enemies to all other Indians their Weapons were Bows and Arrows but of late he is a poor Indian that is not Master of two Guns which they purchase of the French with Powder and Shot the Victors Flea the Skin off the Skull of the Principal slain Enemies which they carry away in Triumph their Prisoners they bring home the old Men and Women they knock on the Head the young Women they keep and the Men of War they Torture to death as the Eastern Indians did two Mowhawks whilst I was there they bind him to a Tree and make a great Fire before him then with sharp Knives they cut off his Fingers and Toes then clap upon them hot Embers to sear the Veins thus they cut him to pieces joint after joint still applying Fire for stanching the Blood making the poor Wretch Sing all the while when Armes and Legs are gone they Flea the Skin off their Heads and presently apply thereto a Cap of burning Coals then they open his Breast and take out his Heart which while it is yet living in a manner they give to their old Squa's or Women who are every one to have a bit of it These Barbarous Customs they used more frequently before the English came but since there are endeavours to Convert them to Christianity by Mr. Eliot and his Son who Preach to them in their own Language into which they have likewise Translated the Bible these go Clothed like the English live in framed Houses have Stocks of Corn and Cattel about them which when Fat they bring to Market some of their Sons have been brought up Schollers in Harward Colledge New-England is seated in the midst of the Temperate Zone yet is the Clime more uncertain as to heat and cold than those European Kingdoms which are in the same Latitude The Air is cleer healthful and Agreeable to the English well watered with Rivers having variety of Beasts both tame and wild with several sorts of Trees and excellent Fruits the Commodities it yeildeth are rich Furs Flax Linnen Amber Iron Pitch Tarr Cables Masts and Timber to build Ships with several sorts of Grain wherewith they drive a considerable Trade to Barbado's and other English Plantations in America supplying them with Flower Bisket Salt Flesh and Fish and in return bring Sugars and other Goods To England they trade for Stuffs Silks Cloath Iron Brass and other Utensils for their Houses The weights and measures are the same with England The English posesss many potent Colonies being very numerous and powerful and are governed by Laws of their own making having several Courts of Judicature where they meet once a mouth so they be not repugnant to the Laws of England every Town sends two Burgesses to their great and solemn General Court The Government both Civil and Ecclesiastical is in the hands of the Independents or Presbyterians The Military part of their Government is by one Major General and three Serjeant Majors to whom belong the four Countys of Suffolk Middlesex Essex and Norfolk They have several fine Towns whereof Boston is the Metropolis likewise Dorchester Cambridg beautified with two Colledges and many well built Houses Reading Salem Berwick Braintree Bristoll Concorde Dartmouth Dedham Dover Exeter Falmouth Glocester Greensharbour Hampton Harford Haverhill Weymouth Yarmouth New Haven Oxford Salisbury Taunton Southampton Newbury Springfield Sudbury Ipswich Li● Hull Sandwich Malden Norwich Roxbury Sandwich Wenham Rowley Hingham and others most of them having the names of some Towns in England The present Governor for his Majesty of England is Henry Cranfield Esquire CHAP. V. A prospect of New York with the Scituation Plantation and Product thereof New York so called from our present gracious Sovereign when Duke of York formerly namel● New-Netherlands being part of that New-England which the Dutch one possessed it was first discovered by Mr Hudson and sold presently by him to the Dutch withou● Authority from his Sovereign the King of England in 1608. The Hollanders in 1614. began to plant there and called it New-Netherlands but Sir Samuel Argall Governor of Virginia routed them after which they go● leave of King James to put in there for fresh water in their passage to Brasile and did not offer to plant till a good while after the English were setled in the Country In 1664. his late Majesty King Charles the Second sent over four Commissioners to reduce the Colonies into bounds that had before incroached upon each other who marching with 300 Redcoats to Manhadees or Manhataes took from the Dutch their cheif Town then called New-Amsterdam now new-New-York and Aug. 29. turned out their Governor with a Silver Leg and all the rest but those who acknowledged subjection to the King of England suffering them to enjoy their Houses and Estates as before thirteen daies after Sir Robert Car took the Fort and Town of Aurania now called Albany and twelve daies after that the Fort and Town of Arosapha then Dela-ware Castle man'd with Dutch and Sweeds So that now the English are Masters of three handsome Towns three strong Forts and a Castle without the loss of one man the first Governor of these parts for the King of England was Colonel Nichols one of the Commissioners This Country is blessed with the richest soyl in all New-England I have heard it reported from men of Judgment saies my Author that one Bushel of European wheat hath yeilded an hundred in one year The Town of new-New-York is well seated both for Trade security and pleasure in a small Isle called Manahatan at the mouth of the great River Mohegan which is very commodious for Shipping and about two Leagues broad the Town is large built with Dutch Brick alla Moderna consisting of above 500 fair Houses the meanest not

going so that all the company perisht by famine or other extremities except the Pilot and three or four Mariners who all likewise died soon after their arrival leaving to Columbus their Landlord their Papers with some account of their Discoveries the time place Countrey and name of this Pilot is uncertain and therefore other Authors affirm it to be a fable or Spanish contrivance as envying that an Italian and Forreigner should have the glory of being the first discoverer of the Indies and the more judicious Spaniards account it a Tale and give a more probable Relation thereof and of the cause which moved Columbus to this mighty undertaking and not the Pilots Papers or reports For they write that Christopher Colon or Columbus was born at Nervi in the Territories of Genoa and bred a Mariner from his Child-hood trading into Syria and other Eastern Countries after which he learnt the art of making Sea Cards and went to Portugal to acquaint himself with the Coasts of Africa and there married In sayling about these Seas he observed that at certain seasons of the year the winds blew from the West for a great while together and judging they came from some Coasts beyond the Sea he was so concerned that he resolved to make a Trial thereof He was now forty years old and propounding to the State of Genoa that if they would furnish him with Ships he would find a way by the West to the Islands of Spices they rejected it as a dream or idle fancy Being thus frustrate of his hopes he goes to Portugal and communicates his design to King Alphonsus but with the same success upon which he sent his Brother Bartholomew Columbus to King Henry the Seventh of England to sollicit his assistance while himself went into Spain to impiore aid of the Castilians Bartholomew was unhappily taken by Pirates in his voyage to England who robbing him and his company of all they had he at length arrived and was forced to get a mean livelyhood by making Sea Cards and in a short time presents a Map of the World to King Henry with his Brothers offer of discovery which the King gladly accepted and sent for him into England But he had sped in his suit before in Spain for coming thither and conferring with two able Spanish Pilots they advised him to apply himself to the Dukes of Medina Sidonia and Medina Caeli who giving him recommendation to the Queens Confessor he arrived at the Court of Castile in 1486. but Ferdinando and Isabella then King and Queen of Spain being ingaged hotly in the Wars of Granada against the Moors he at first found but cold entertainment Thus he continued for some time in a mean and contemptible Condition till at length the Archbishop of Toledo procured him audience where he was favourably received and promised dispatch upon concluding the Wars in Granada and accordingly he was furnished with three Caravels at the Kings charges and sixteen thousand Duckets in money In 1492. August 3. Columbus accompanied with about one hundred and Twenty Persons set sail for Gomera one of the Canary Islands where having refresht after many days they encountred the Sea called Sargasso from an Herb like Sampire wherewith it is so covered that it appears like a green Field with empty berries like a Gooseberry and is so thick that the Water cannot be seen hindring the passage of the Ship without a strong wind these weeds are thought to reach to the bottom of the Sea though there exceeding deep and above four hundred miles distant from the Coast of Africa This strange accident much surprized the Spaniards and had occasioned their return had not the sight of some birds incouraged them with hopes of Land not far off After thirty three days sayling despairing of success the company mutined threatning to throw Columbus into the Sea disdaining that a Genouse stranger should thus abuse them but at length by soft words and strong promises he qualified their anger Oct. 11. following one Roderigo di Triana cried out Land Land the best musick that Columbus could desire who to pacify the Spaniards had ingaged that if no Land appeared in three days he would then return one of the company the night before had descried Fire which raised his expectation of having some great reward from the King of Spain of which being frustrate at his return he in a rage renounced his Christianity and turned Moor. With Tears of Joy the late mutinous Mariners behold the desired Land and they that Yesterday were ready to destroy now as far distracted with contrary passions imbrace and almost adore their dear Columbus for so happily bringing them to this Land of Promise On shore they go and felling a Tree make a Cross thereof which they there erected and took possession of this New World in the name of the Catholick King They first landed in an Island called Guanah●ni one of the Lucai which Columbus named St. Salvadore from whence he sayled to Baracoa an Haven on the North side of the Isle of Cuba and landing inquired of the Inhabitants for Cipango or Japan which they understanding to be Cibao in Hispaniola where are the richest Mines they made signs to them that they were in Haiti which name they gave to Hispaniola and some of them went with him thither but no earthly joy is without some disaster for here their Admiral split upon a Rock but the men were saved by the help of other Ships This happened on the North part of Hispaniola where they saw some Inhabitants who for fear of strangers instantly fled into the Mountains One woman they got whom they used kindly giving her meat drink and clothes and so dismissing her who declaring their civility to the rest they soon came in Troops to the Ships judging the Spaniards to be some Divine Nation sent from Heaven Though before they thought them Canibals or Man-eaters and such indeed they afterward proved in some sense not leaving in some few years after their arrival above two hundred Indians alive of four Millions that before inhabited these Countries Before the discovery of this Island by Columbus the People were informed thereof by an Oracle for one of their Kings being very importunate with their Zemes or Gods to know future events fasted five days together spending his time in continual mourning After which the Zemes declared That some years after there would arrive a strange Nation clothed bearded and armed with shining Swords which would out a man asunder in the middle who should destroy the ancient Images of their Gods abolish their Ceremonies and slay their Children In remembrance of which Oracle they composed a solemn Elegy which upon Holy days they used mournfully to sing Nothing more pleased the Spaniards than the Gold which the Innocent Inhabitants exchanged with them for Bells Glasses Points and other Trifles Columbus got leave of the King of Hispaniola to build a Fort and leaving 38 Spaniards therein taking with him six

Indians he returned to Spain and was highly caressed by the King and Q. and being honoured with the Title of Admiral and inriched with the Tenths of the Spanish gains in the Indies he is sent a second time with his Brother Bartholomew who was made Vice-Roy of Hispaniola with seventeen sail of Ships and fifteen hundred men when he arrived he found all his men were murdered by the Indians who laid the blame on their insolent carriage toward them Columbus now built the Town of Isabella and afterward Saint Domingo and Fort St. Thomas but in both places the Spaniards died of Famine for the Indians being unwilling to have such Neighbours refused to plant their Maiz and Jucca and so starved both themselves and their new Guests At this place the Spaniards got that terrible disease called since the French Pox of the Indian women and in requital brought among them a more mortal and infectious distemper that is the Small-Pox which destroyed Thousands and was utterly unknown before in that Countrey After this Columbus discovered Cuba Jamaica and other adjacent Isles and likewise part of the main Land of America He repaired his Fleet at Jamaica where some of his men were sick and others mutinous which the Indians observing refused to bring him in provisions whereupon being straitned he thought of this Stratagem sending for some of the Islanders he assured them that if they did not furnish him with necessaries the Divine wrath would consume them a token whereof would be that within two days the face of the Moon should be darkned at which time he knew there would be an Ecclipse of the Moon which these simple People finding to happen accordingly they came and humbly submitted themselves to him offering all the Assistance and supplies he desired Another time some difference happening among the Spaniards Columbus sent a Letter to reduce them to Peace by some of the Indians who had extraordinary reverence for it thinking the Paper to have some Spirit or Deity inclosed in it whereby they could understand one anothers minds at so great distance Columbus at length returning into Spain he there died in 1506 and was buried at Sevil after whose example several others made further Discoveries till at last this New World is now almost wholly come to the knowledge of the Old II. Among other great Adventurers Hernando Cortes may be recorded who in 1485. sailed out of Spain being but 19 Years old to the Island of St. Domingo where being kindly received by Ovando the Governour he discovered many new Provinces and designed further Westward because he heard there were Mines of Gold and having first made the Inhabitants Swear Allegiance to the King of Spain to whom he said the Monarchy of the Universe did belong he Sailed up the River Tavasco where a Town which stood thereon refusing him Victuals he took and plundred it the Indians hereat inraged raised an Army of Forty Thousand Men but Cortes by his Horse and great Guns soon defeated them they imagining the Horse and Man to be but one Creature and when they heard them Neigh thought the Horses could speak and inquired what they said the Spaniards answered these Horses are very much offended with you for fighting with them and would have you severely punished the Innocent Indians hereupon presented Roses and Hens to the Beasts desiring them to eat and to pardon their Miscarriages The Spaniards named this Town Victory containing near twenty five thousand Houses many of them Built of Lime Stone and Brick he then sailed farther West to St. John de Vlla where the Governour of the Country came to him with four Thousand Indians adoring and burning Frankincense and little Straws dipt in his own blood to Cortes and then presented him Victuals Jewels Gold and curious works of Feathers which Cortes requited with a Collar of Glass and other things of small value a Woman Slave given him at the Town of Victory was his Interpreter by whom Cortes informed the Governour that he was Servant to the greatest Emperour upon Earth at which the other much wondred thinking there had been none so mighty as his Soveraign Montezuma Emperour of Mexico to whom the Governour sent the Pictures of these bearded Men their Horses Apparel Weapons great Guns and other Rarities Painted in Cotton Cloths with an account of their Ships and numbers which were conveyed by Posts to Mexico in a day and a night though two hundred and ten Miles distant Cortes asked the Governour whether Montezuma had any Gold who answered him yea I am very glad of it said Cortes for I and my Companions are troubled with a Disease at the Heart to which Gold is the only Soveraign Remedy and therefore we desire him to furnish us with the greatest quantity he can possible of that Mettal Montezuma upon receipt of those things sent back Cotton Cloths of divers Colours many tuffts of Feathers with two Wheels each two yards and an half broad one of Silver representing the Moon the other of Gold like the Sun the whole Present being in value Twenty Thousand Duckets he likewise exprest much Joy to hear of so great a Prince and such a strange People and promised all kind of necessaries but was very unwilling Cortes should come to visit him though Cortes was resolved to see him the Indians came daily to his Camp to see these strange sights and when the great Guns were discharged they fell flat on their Faces thinking the Heavens were falling among the rest were divers Indians of differing habit taller than the rest the Gristles of their Noses slit and hanging over their Mouths and Rings of Jet and Amber fastned thereto they had holes in their lower Lips wherein were put Rings of Gold and Turkess Stones so heavy that their Lips hung over their Chins leaving their Teeth bare Cortes understood these deformed Gallants were of Zempoallan a City a days Journey off whom their Lords had sent to discover what Gods were come in those Temples meaning the Ships for they daily expected the God of the Air to appear They were not willingly subject to Montezuma neither converst with any other Indians and therefore Cortes resolved to make use of them against him upon the first occasion He sailed from thence to Panuco a little Town where was a Temple ascended by twenty Steps in which they found Idols Bloody Papers much Blood of Men Sacrificed the Block whereon they cut them up and the Razors of Flint wherewith they opened their Breasts which struck horror into the Spaniards Cortes then proceeded to Zempoallan where he was Solemnly received and lodged in a great House of Lime and Stone whited with Plaister that shined like Silver against the Sun then causing all his Ships to be sunk that there might be no hope of return he persuaded the Natives to submit to the Spaniards and join with them against Montezuma which they readily complied with leaving a Guard in this his new Town he marched with four

themselves reasonably loaden and that their Ships had endured the Sea a long time they resolve to return for England by the Moluccae and Philippine Islands Sailing in this South Sea to forty degrees of Northerly Latitude where he landed and named it Nova Albion The Inhabitants presented him Feathers and Kalls of Network which he requited with other things the men went naked the Women had loose Garments of Bulrushes tyed about their middles They came a second time and brought Feathers and bags of Tobacco and after a long oration by one that was Speaker for the rest they left their bows on an Hill and came down to our men the women in the mean time remaining on the Hill tormented themselves tearing their flesh from their cheeks whereby it appeared they were about some sacrifice the news being further spread brought the King thither who was a very proper man and had the like to attend him two Ambassadours with a Speech of half an hour long gave an account of his intended coming when he appeared one went before him with a Scepter or Mace whereon there hung two Crowns with 3 Chains the Crowns were of knitwork wrought artificially with feathers of divers colours the chains made of bone The King was clothed in Cony-skins his Followers had their faces painted with white black and other colours every one even the Children bringing their Presents He that carried the Scepter made a loud Speech of half an hour repeating it from another who whispered to him which being ended with a Solemn applause they all came orderly down the Hill without their weapons the Scepter-bearer beginning a Song and dance and all the rest following him The King and several others made many Orations or Supplications to Drake that he would be their King and the King with a Song set the Crown on his head and put the Chains about his neck honouring him by the name of Hioh The Common sort leaving the King and his Guard mingled themselves among the English viewing them severely and offering thei● Sacrifices to those they best liked which were commonly the youngest weeping and rending their flesh with much effusion of bloud Our men misliked their Devotions and directed them to worship the Living God Every third day they brought their Sacrifice● till they found them displeasing yet at the departure of the English they very much grieved and secretly provided a Sacrifice They found Herds of Deer feeding by thousands and strange Conies with heads like ours feet like a Mole and the tail of a Cat having under their chains a bag lnto which they put their meat when their Bellies are full Sailing from hence they went back by the Cape of Good Hope And Nov. 3. 1580. which was the third year of their Voyage they safely arrived at Plymouth In 1585. This Gallant Seaman having been Knighted and much Honoured by Queen Elizabeth made another Voyage to America with a greater number of Ships in which besides other places of note he took and burnt a good part of St. Domingo in Hispaniola forcing the Inhabitants to redeem the other part with twenty five Thousand Duckets in Money he took also Car●hagena a Town upon the Continent and in it Alonso Bravo the Governour and after burning some Houses had eleven Thousand Duckets paid him by the Inhabitants to spare the rest he took likewise the Towns of St. Anth●ny and St. Helena but at last the English in the Ships falling Sick of the Calenture and many dying he was forced to return for England with what he had already got which was valued at threescore Thousand Pound Sterling of cleer Prize besides two hundred Pieces of Brass Ordnance and Forty of Iron In 1595. Sir Francis Drake made his last Voyage which proved not altogether so successful to him as the former by reason as was thought of some misunderstanding between him and Sir John Hawkins who was the other General joined in Commission with him for the Expedition they both died in this Voyage Sir John Hawkins first as soon as ever the Ship came in sight of Porto Rico after which Drake being Sole General made an attempt upon that place but could only Fire some Ships in the Haven receiving some loss himself yet he proceeded and took Rio de la Hacha Raucheria at that time a Wealthy Town by the Trade of Pearl Fishing and lastly Nombre de dios but found nothing so much Treasure now as he saw the first time from hence marching by Land he designed to surprize Panama but Sir Thomas Baskervile who commanded a party of seven hundred and fifty Souldiers for that purpose found the Passages over the Mountains so difficult and the passes so well guarded that he was forced to retreat not without loss of Men whom the Spaniards being acquainted with the Countrey and lying in the woods through which they were to pass killed in their return Hereupon they were forced to put to Sea again and not long after Sir Francis Drake himself fell sick and partly of a Flux and grief for his ill success having hitherto been acquainted with nothing but good Fortune and Victory he died within few days before Porto bello and the Fleet under Sir Tho. Baskervile return'd to England IX Another renowned worthy among the English Adventurers of America and especially for a prosperous and compleat circumnavigation of the Ocean was Sir Thomas Cavendish of Trimley in Suffolk who in July 1586 with three Ships and 120 Men set out from Plymouth for the West Indies and Aug. 25 following fell with the Point of Sierra Liona on the Coast of Guiny and from thence Sept 7 with the Isle of Madrabamba about Cape Verde a place very convenient for taking in fresh water and other necessaries for men at Sea but otherwise much subject to sudden claps of Thunder Lightning and storms especially in winter Their design was for the Streights of Magellan and the South sea therefore steering directly South by the latter end of October they dicover Cape Frio on the Coasts of Brasil and put in at an Harbour between the Isle of St Sebastian and the Continent where they stayed some time building a New Pinnace and supplying their Ships with necessaries Then sailing toward the Streights Jan. 6. they came to an Anchor at the Streights mouth not far from the place where the Spaniards intended a Town and Fort for commanding the Streights and securing the Passage into the South-Sea against all Nations but themselves But as it appeared that project took no effect for of 400 Men left there three Years before by Don Pedro Sarmiento to that purpose by order of the King of Spain there were scarce 20 remaining alive when Sir Tho Cav●ndish sailed that way the rest were either starved for want of necessary Provisions or destroyed by the Natives They had begun their Town which they named St. Philip upon the narrowest Passage of the Streights about half a mile broad in a place very convenient for their

degrees of North Latitude His Travels were si● much perfected by the Industry and Voyages of C●tain Gosnold Captain Hudson Captain Smith and othe● the last of whom gives a very large account of the wo●ship and Ceremonies of the Indians This Captain w● taken Prisoner by the Natives and whiile he stayed among them observed their Magical Rites Three ● four days after his being seized seven of their Prie● in the House where he lay each with a Rattle ma●ing him sit down by them began about 10 in th● morning to sing about a Fire which they incompass● with a circle of Meal at the end of every Song whi●● the chief Priest begun the rest following in order they layd down 2 or 3 grains of wheat Then ● Priest disguised with a great Skin his head hung round with little Skins of Weasels and other Vermine and a Coronet of Feathers painted as ugly as the Devil at the end of every song he used strange and vehement gestures throwing great Cakes of Deer suet and Tobacco into the Fire thus these howling Devotions continued till 6 a clock at night and held so 3 days This they pretended was to know of their God whether any more English should arrive and what they intended to do in that Countrey They fed Captain Smith so high that he much doubted they would have sacrificed him to their chief Deity the Image of whom is so deformed that nothing can be more monstrous the Women likewise after he was freed and President of the Company made him a very odd entertainment Thirty of them came out of the Woods only covered before and behind with a few green leaves their bodies painted of different colours the Commander of these Nymphs had on her head a large pair of Staggs Horns and a Quiver of Arrows at her back with Bow and Arrows in her hand The rest followed with Horns and Weapons all alike they rushed through the Trees with hellish shouts and cryes dancing about a Fire which was there made to that purpose for an hour together Then they solemnly invited him to their Lodging where he was no sooner come but they all surrounded him declaring great kindness to him and crying Love you not me after which they feasted him with great variety cook'd after their mad fashion some singing and dancing all the while and at last lighted him home with a Firebrand instead of a Torch to his Lodgings When they design to make War they first consult with their Priests and Conjurers no People being so barbarous almost but they have their Gods Priests and Religion they adore as it were all things that they think may unavoidably hurt them as Fire Water Lightning Thunder our great Guns Muskets and Horses yea some of them once seeing an English Boar were struck with much terror because he bristled up his Hair and gnashed his Teeth believing him to be the God of the Swine who was offended with them The chief God they worship is the Devil which they call Okee they have conference with him and fashion themselves into his shape in their Temples they have his Image il favouredly carved painted adorned with Chains Copper and Beads and covered with a Skin the● Sepulchre of their Kings is commonly neer him whose bodies are first Imbowelled dried on a hurdle adorned with Chains and Beads and then wrapped in white Skins over which are Matts they are afterward intombed orderly in Arches made of Matts their wealth being placed at their Feet for their ordinary burials they dig a deep hole in the Earth with sharp Stakes and the Corps being wrapped in Skins and Matts they lay them upon Sticks in the ground and cover them with Earth The Burial ended the Women having their Faces painted black with Cole and Oil sit mourning in the Houses twenty four hours together yelling and howling by turns The People are clothed with loose Mantles made of Deer skins and Aprons of the same round their middles all else naked of stature like to us in England they paint themselves and their Children and he is most gallant who is most deformed the Women imbroider their Legs Hands and other parts with divers works as of Serpents and the like making black Spots in their Flesh Their Houses are made of small Poles round and fastned at the top in a circle like our Arbours covered with Matts twice as long as broad they are exact Archers and with their Arrows will kill Birds flying or Beasts running full speed one of our Men was with an Arrow shot through the Body and both the Arms at once another Indian shot an Arrow of an Ell long through a Target that a Pistol Bullet could not pierce their Bows are of tough Hazel and their strings of Leather their Arrows of Cane or Hazel headed with Stones or Horn and Feathered artificially they soon grow heartless if they find their Arrows do no Execution they speak of Men among them of above two hundred years of Age. Though the Planting of this Country by the English was designed by divers yet it lay much neglected till a small Company of Planters under the Command of Captain George Popham and Captain Gilbert were sent over at the charge of Sir John Popham in 1606 to begin a Colony upon a tract of Land about Saga de hoch the most Northerly part of New-England but that design within two years expiring with its first Founder soon after some Honourable Persons of the West of England commonly called the Council of Plymouth being more certainly informed of several Navigable Rivers and commodious Havens with other places fit either for Traffick or Planting newly discovered by many skilful Navigators obtained of King James the First a Patent under the Great Seal of all that part of North-America called New-England from Forty to Forty eight Degrees of North Latitude This vast Tract of Land was in 1612. cantoned and divided by Grants into many lesser parcels according as Adventurers presented which Grants being founded upon uncertain and false Descriptions and Reports of some that Travelled thither did much interfere one upon another to the great disturbance of the first Planters so that little Profit was reaped from thence nor was any greater Improvement made of those Grand Portions of Land save the erecting some few Cottages for Fishermen and a few inconsiderable Buildings for the Planters yea for want of good conduct they were by degrees in a manner quite destitute of Laws and Government and left to shift for themselves This was the beginning of New-England when in the year 1610. One Mr. Robinson a Presbyterian or rather Independent Preacher and several other English then at Leyden in Holland though they had been courteously entertained by the Dutch as Strangers yet foreseeing many inconveniences might happen and that they could not so well provide for the good of their Posterity under the Government of a Foreign Nation they resolved to intreat so much favour from their own Sovereign Prince

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