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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02655	A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants. Discouered by the English colon there seated by Sir Richard Greinuile Knight in the eere 1585. Which remained vnder the gouernement of twelue monethes, at the speciall charge and direction of the Honourable Sir Walter Raleigh Knight lord Warden of the stanneries who therein hath beene fauoured and authorised b her Maiestie :and her letters patents: This fore booke is made in English by Thomas Hariot seruant to the abouenamed Sir Walter, a member of the Colon, and there imploed in discouering Cum gratia et priuilegio Caes. Matis Speciali	Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621.; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598. America.; White, John, fl. 1585-1593, artist.; Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.; Veen, Gijsbert van, 1558-1630, engraver.	1590 (1590)	STC 12786; ESTC S106427	39,246	83

ages haue passed since they say they can make no relation hauing no letters nor other such meanes as we to keepe recordes of the particularities of times past but onelie tradition from father to sonne They thinke that all the gods are of humane shape therfore they represent them by images in the formes of men which they call Kewasowok one alone is called Kewás Them they place in houses appropriate or temples which they call Mathicómuck Where they woorship praie sing and make manie times offerings vnto them In some Machicómuck we haue seene but on Kewas in some two and in other some three The common sort thinke them to be also gods They beleeue also the immortalitie of the soule that after this life as soone as the soule is departed fiom the bodie according to the workes it hath done it is eyther carried to heauē the habitacle of gods there to enioy perpetuall blisse and happinesse or els to a great pitte or hole which they thinke to bee in the furthest partes of their part of the worlde towarde the sunne set there to burne continually the place they call Popogusso For the confirmation of this opinion they tolde mee two stories of two men that had been lately dead and reuiued againe the one happened but few yeres before our comming in the countrey of a wicked man which hauing beene dead and buried the next day the earth of the graue beeing seene to moue was takē vp againe Who made declaration where his soule had beene that is to saie very neere entring into Popogusso had not one of the gods saued him gaue him leaue to returne againe and teach his friends what they should doe to auoid that terrible place of tormenr The other happened in the same yeere wee were there but in a towne that was threescore miles from vs and it was tolde mee for straunge newes that one beeing dead buried and taken vp againe as the first shewed that although his bodie had lien dead in the graue yet his soule was aliue ānd had trauailed farre in a long broade waie on both sides whereof grewe most delicate and pleasaūt trees bearing more rare and excellent fruites then euer hee had seene before or was able to expresse and at length came to most braue and faire houses neere which hee met his father that had beene dead before who gaue him great charge to goe backe againe and shew his friendes what good they were to doe to enioy the pleasures of that place which when he had done he should after come againe What subtilty soeuer be in the Wiroances and Priestes this opinion worketh so much in manie of the common and simple sort of people that it maketh them haue great respect to their Gouernours and also great care what they do to auoid torment after death and to enioy blisse althought notwithstanding there is punishment ordained for malefactours as stealers whoremoongers and other sortes of wicked doers some punished with death some with forfeitures some with beating according to the greatnes of the factes And this is the summe of their religion which I learned by hauing special familiarity with some of their priestes Wherein they were not so sure grounded nor gaue such credite to their traditions and stories but through conuersing with vs they were brought into great doubts of their owne and no small admiratiō of ours with earnest desire in many to learne more than we had meanes for want of perfect vtterance in their language to expresse Most thinges they sawe with vs as Mathematicall instruments sea compasses the vertue of the loadstone in drawing yron a perspectiue glasse whereby was shewed manie strange sightes burning glasses wildefire woorkes gunnes bookes writing and reading spring clocks that seeme to goe of themselues and manie other thinges that wee had were so straunge vnto them and so farre exceeded their capacities to comprehend the reason and meanes how they should be made and done that they thought they were rather the works of gods then of men or at the leastwise they had bin giuen and taught vs of the gods Which made manie of them to haue such opinion of vs as that if they knew not the trueth of god and religion already it was rather to be had from vs whom God so specially loued then from a people that were so simple as they found themselues to be in comparison of vs. Whereupon greater credite was giuen vnto that we spake of concerning such matters Manie times and in euery towne where I came according as I was able I made declaration of the contentes of the Bible that therein was set foorth the true and onelie God and his mightie woorkes that therein was contayned the true doctrine of saluation through Christ with manie particularities of Miracles and chiefe poyntes of religion as I was able then to vtter and thought fitte for the time And although I told them the booke materially of itself was not of anie such vertue as I thought they did conceiue but onely the doctrine therein cōtained yet would many be glad to touch it to embrace it to kisse it to hold it to their brests and heades and stroke ouer all their bodie with it to shewe their hungrie desire of that knowledge which was spoken of The Wiroans with whom we dwelt called Wingina and many of his people would be glad many times to be with vs at our praiers and many times call vpon vs both in his owne towne as also in others whither he sometimes accompanied vs to pray and sing Psalmes hoping thereby to bee partaker of the same effectes which wee by that meanes also expected Twise this Wiroans was so grieuously sicke that he was like to die and as hee laie languishing doubting of anie helpe by his owne priestes and thinking he was in such daunger for offending vs and thereby our god sent for some of vs to praie and bee a meanes to our God that it would please him either that he might liue or after death dwell with him in blisse so likewise were the requestes of manie others in the like case On a time also when their corne began to wither by reason of a drouth which happened extraordinarily fearing that it had come to passe by reason that in some thing they had displeased vs many woulde come to vs desire vs to praie to our God of England that he would preserue their corne promising that when it was ripe we also should be partakers of the fruite There could at no time happen any strange sicknesse losses hurtes or any other crosse vnto them but that they would impute to vs the cause or meanes therof for offending or not pleasing vs. One other rare and strange accident leauing others will I mention before I ende which mooued the whole countrey that either knew or hearde of vs to haue vs in wonderfull admiration There was no towne where we had any subtile deuise practised against vs we leauing it vnpunished or not