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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

Woods and Rivers are their Larder If an European comes to see them or calls for Lodging at their House or Wigwam they give him the best place and first cut If they come to visit us they salute us with an It ah which is as much as to say Good be to you and set them down which is mostly on the Ground close to their Heels their Legs upright may be they speak not a word more but observe all Passages If you give them any thing to eat or drink well for they will not ask and be it little or much if it be with Kindness they are well pleased else they go away sullen but say nothing They are great Concealers of their own Resentments brought to it I believe by the Revenge that hath been practised among them in either of these they are not exceeded by the Italians A Tragical Instance fell out since I came into the Country A King's Daughter thinking her self slighted by her Husband in suffering another Woman to lie down between them rose up went out pluck't a Root out of ●he Ground and ate it upon which she immediately dyed and for which last Week he made an Offering to her Kindred for Atonement and liberty of Marriage as two others did to the Kindred of their Wives that dyed a natural Death For till Widowers have done so they must not marry again Some of the young Women are said to take undue liberty before Marriage for a Portion but when marryed chaste when with Child they know their Husbands no more till delivered and during their Month they touch no Meat they eat but with a Stick lest they should defile it nor do their Husbands frequent them till that time be expired But in Liberality they excell nothing is too good for their friend give them a fine Gun Coat or other thing it may pass twenty hands before it sticks light of Heart strong Affections but soon spent the most merry Creatures that live Feast and Dance perpetually they never have much nor want much Wealth circulateth like the Blood all parts partake and though none shall want what another hath yet exact Observers of Property Some Kings have sold others presented me with several parcels of Land the Pay or Presents I made them were not hoarded by the particular Owners but the neighbouring Kings and their Clans being present when the Goods were brought out the Parties chiefly concerned consulted what and to whom they should give them To every King then by the hands of a Person for that work appointed is a proportion sent so sorted and folded and with that Gravity that is admirable Then that King sub-divideth it in like manner among his Dependants they hardly leaving themselves an Equal share with one of their Subjects and be it on such occasions at Festivals or at their common Meals the Kings distribute and to themselves last They care for little because they want but little and the Reason is a little contents them In this they are sufficiently revenged on us if they are ignorant of our Pleasures they are also free from our Pains They are not disquieted with Bills of Lading and Exchange nor perplexed with Chancery-Suits and Exchequer-Reckonings We sweat and toil to live their pleasure feeds them I mean their Hunting Fishing and Fowling and this Table is spread every where they eat twice a day Morning and Evening their Seats and Table are the Ground Since the Europeans came into these parts they are grown great lovers of Strong Liquors Rum especially and for it exchange the richest of their Skins and Furs If they are heated with Liquors they are restless till they have enough to sleep that is their cry some more and I will go to sleep but when Drunk one of the most wretchedst Spectacles in the World In Sickness impatient to be cured and for it give any thing especially for their Children to whom they are extreamly natural they drink at those times a Teran or Decoction of some Roots in spring Water and if they eat any Flesh it must be of the Female of any Creature If they dye they bury them with their Apparel be they Men or Women and the nearest of Kin fling in something precious with them as a token of their Love Their Mourning is blacking of their Faces which they continue for a year They are choice of the Graves of their Dead for lest they should be lost by time and fall to common use they pick off the Grass that grows upon them and heap up the fallen Earth with great care and exactness These poor People are under a dark Night in things relating to Religion to be sure the Tradition of it yet they believe a God and Immortality without the help of Metaphysicks for they say There is a great King that made them who dwells in a glorious Countrey to the Southward of them and that the Souls of the good shall go thither where they shall live again Their Worship consists of two parts Sacrifice and Cantico Their Sacrifice is their first Fruits the first and fattest Buck they kill goeth to the fire where he is all burnt with a Mournful Ditty of him that performeth the Ceremony but with such marvellous Fervency and Labour of Body that he will even sweat to a foam The other part is their Cantico performed by round Dances sometimes words sometimes Songs then Shouts two being in the middle that begin and by Singing and Drumming on a Board direct the Chorus Their Postures in the Dance are very Antick and differing but all keep measure This is done with equal Earnestness and Labour but great appearance of Joy In the Fall when the Corn cometh in they begin to feast one another there have been two great Festivals already to which all come that will I was at one my self their Entertainment was a green Seat by a Spring under some shady Trees and twenty Bucks with hot Cakes of new Corn both Wheat and Beans which they make up in a square form in the leaves of the Stem and bake them in the Ashes and after that they fell to Dance But they that go must carry a small Present of their Money it may be six Pence which is made in the Bone of a Fish the black is with them as Gold the white Silver they call it all Wampum Their Government is by Kings which they call Sachema and those by Succession but always of the Mothers-side for Instance the Children of him that is now King will not succeed but his Brother by the Mother or the Children of his Sister whose Sons and after them the Children of her Daughters will Reign for no Woman inherits the Reason they render for this way of Descent is that their Issue may not be spurious Every King hath his Council and that consists of all the Old and Wise-men of his Nation which perhaps is two hundred People nothing of Moment is undertaken be it War Peace Selling of Land or Traffick

and Teats no bigger than a Mans Head wherewith she Suckleth her young of which she is very tender one being killed they could not get the young one from the Dam there hath been made twenty seven Tun of Oil out of one Whale VII But to return from this diversion Captain Henry Hudson in 1607. discovered farther North toward the Pole than perhaps any before him he found himself in 80 Degrees where they felt it hot and drank Water to cool their Thirst they judg'd they saw Land to 82 Degrees and farther on the Shore they found Snow Morses Teeth Deers Horns Bones and Whalebones and the footing of other Beasts with a stream of fresh Water the next year 1608. he set forth on a Discovery to the North-east at which time as several of the Company solemnly affirmed they saw a Mermaid in the Sea he made another Voyage in 1609. and Coasted New-found land and thence along to Cape Cod his last and fatal Voyage was in 1610. being imployed by several Merchants to try if through any of those Inlets which Captain Davis saw but durst not enter there might be a passage found to the South Sea Their Ship was called the Discovery they passed by Iseland and saw Mount Hecla cast out Fire a certain Presage of foul Weather they gave the name of Lousy Bay to one Harbour in Iseland and found a Bath there hot enough to scald a Fowl June 4. They saw Greenland and after that Desolation Isle and then plied North-west among the Islands of Ice they ran plaid and filled sweet Water out of the Ponds that were upon them some of them were a-ground in six or seven score Fathom Water and on divers they saw Bears and Patridges they gave names to certain Islands as Gods Mercy Prince Henrys Foreland King James Cape Queen Anns Cape One Morning in a Fog they were carryed by a strong Tide into one of those Inlets the depth whereof and the plying forward of the Ice gave Hudson great hope it would prove a thorough-fair After they had Sailed herein near 300 Leagues West he came to a small Streight of two Leagues over and very deep Water through which he passed between the two Capes one of which he called Digges Island in 62 Degrees into a spacious Sea wherein he sailed above an hundred Leagues South being now over-confident that he had found the Passage but perceiving by the Shoal Water that it was only a Bay he was much surprized committing many errors especially in resolving to Winter in that desolate place in such want of necessary Provisions November 3. He moored his Ship in a small Cove where they had all undoubtedly perished but that it pleased God to send them several kinds of Fowl they killed of white Patridges above an hundred and twenty Dozen these left them in the Spring and others succeeded as Swans Geese Teal Ducks all easy to take besides the blessing of a Tree which in December blossomed with green yellow Leaves of a smell like Spice which being boiled yielded an Oily substance that proved an excellent Salve and the Decoction being drunk an wholesom Potion for curing the Scurvy Sciatica Cramps Convulsions and other Diseases bred by the coldness of the Climate At the opening of the year there came to the side of his Ship such a multitude of fish of all sorts that they might easily have fraught themselves for their return if Hudson had not too desperately pursued his Voyage neglecting this opportunity of storing themselves which he committed to the care of certain careless dissolute Villains who in his absence conspired against him in few days all the fish forsook them one time a Savage visited them who for a Knife Glass and Beads gave them Bever and Deers Skin with a Sled At Hudsons return they set Sail for England but in few dayes their Victuals being almost spent and he in despair letting fall some words of setting some on shore the Conspirators entred his Cabin in the night and forced Hudson his Son and six more to go out of the ship into the Shallop and seek their Fortune after which they were never heard of but certainly perished in the Sea In a few days the Victuals in the Ship being spent they took 2 or 300 tame Fowls and traded with the Savages for Deer skins Morse teeth and Furrs One of their men went a shore and found they lived in Tents Men Women and Children together they were big-boned broad faced flat noosed and small feet like the Tartars their Garments Gloves and Shoes were of Skins handsomly wrought next morning Green one of the principal Conspirators would needs go on shore with divers others unarmed the Savages lay in ambush and at the first onset shot this mutinous Ringleader to the heart and another as bad who dyed swearing and cursing the rest of these Traytors dyed a few days after of their wounds Divine Justice finding executioners by these barbarous people The Ship escaped narrowly for one Abraham Prichard a servant to Sir Dudley Diggs whom the Mutineers had saved in hope he would procure their pardon from his Master was left to keep the Vessel where he sate at the Stern in his Gown sick and lame when the Leader of the Savages suddenly leapt from a Rock and with a strange kind of weapon of Steel wounded him desperately before he could draw out a small Stotch Dagger from under his Gown wherewith at one thrust into the side of the Savage he killed him and brought off the Ship and some of the wounded company Swimming to him they hastned homeward without ever striking Sail being so distrest for food that they were forced to fry the weeds of the Sea with Candles ends to sustain their lives Sept. 6. 1611. they met with a Fisherman of Foy in Cornwal by whose means they came safe to England VIII But above all Sir Francis Drake whose memory is most deservedly honoured of all men ought to be recorded for his extraordinary Abilities Experience and happy Conduct at S●a This brave Seaman in the beginning of his Actions was Captain of the Judith with Sir John Hawkins in the Voyage to Guiana 1567. where they received some considerable damage from the Spaniards in the Port of St. John de Vllua contrary to their promise and agreement and therefore to repair himself having first been assured by Divines that his Cause was just in 1572. be set out for America with two Ships and a Pinnace one called the Dragon wherein he himself was and at his first attempt surprized Nombre de Dios at that time one of the richest Towns in America but in the Action happening to receive a wound in one of his Feet which disabled him he was not able to command nor gather that rich Spoil that lay even in sight before him for his Company being too much discouraged with thi● disaster carried him back to the Ships even almost whether he would or no leaving the Town and an infinite

Tract of Land in America called by the Name of Pensylvania as the same is Bounded on the East by Delaware River from Twelve miles distance Northwards of New-Castle Town unto the three and fortieth Degree of Northern Latitude if the said River doth extend so far Northwards and if the said River shall not extend so far Northward then by the said River so far as it doth extend And from the Head of the said River the Eastern Bounds to be determined by a Meridian Live to be drawn from the Head of the said River unto the said three and fortieth Degree the said Province to extend Westward Five Degrees in Longitude to be Computed from the said Eastern Bounds and to be bounded on the North by the Beginning of the three and fortieth Degree of Northern Latitude and on the South by a Circle drawn at Twelve Miles distance from New-Castle Northwards and Westwards unto the beginning of the fortieth Degree of Northern Latitude and then by a straight Line Westwards to the limit of Longitude above-mentioned together with all Powers Preheminences and Jurisdictions necessary for the Government of the said Province as by the said Letters Patents reference being thereunto had doth more at large appear His Majesty doth therefore hereby Publish and Declare his Royal Will and Pleasure That all Persons Setled or Inhabiting within the Limits of the said Province do yield all Due Obedience to the said William Penn His Heirs and Assigns as absolute Proprietaries and Governours thereof as also to the Deputy or Deputies Agents or Lieutenants Lawfully Commissioned by him or them according to the Powers and Authorities Granted by the said Letters Patents Wherewith his Majesty Expects and Requires a ready Compliance from all persons whom it may concern as they tender his Majesties Displeasure Given at the Court at White-Hall the Second day of April 1681 In the Three and thirtieth year of Our Reign By His Majesties Command Conway The Description of this Province cannot better be given by any than William Penn himself who sent the following account from off the place in a Letter dated from Philadelphia Aug. 16. 1683. For this PROVINCE the general Condition of it take as followeth The Country it self in its Soil Air Water Seasons and Produce both Natural and Artificial is not to be despised The Land containeth divers sorts of Earth as Sand Yellow and Black Poor and Rich also Gravel both Loomy and Dusty and in some places a fast fat Earth like to our best Vales in England especially by Inland-Brooks and Rivers God in his Wisdom having ordered it so that the Advantages of the Country are divided the Back-Lands being generally three to one Richer than those that ly by Navigable Waters We have much of another Soyl and that is a black Hasel-Mould upon a Stony or Rocky bottom The Air is sweet and cleer the Heavens serene like the South-parts of France rarely Overcast and as the Woods come by numbers of People to be more clear'd that it self will Refine The Waters are generally good for the Rivers and Brooks have mostly Gravel and Stony Bottoms and in Number hardly credible We have also Mineral Waters that operate in the same manner with Barnet and North-Hall not two Miles from Philadelphia For the Seasons of the Year having by God's goodness now lived over the Coldest and Hottest that the Oldest Liver in the Province can remember I can say something to an English Understanding 1st Of the Fall for then I came in I found it from the 24th of October to the beginning of December as we have it usually in England in September or rather like an English mild Spring From December to the beginning of the Month called March we had sharp Frosty Weather not foul thick black Weather as our North-East Winds bring with them in England but a Skie as clear as in Summer and the Air dry cold piercing and hungry yet I remember not that I wore more Clothes than in England The reason of this Cold is given from the great Lakes that are fed by the Fountains of Canada The Winter before was as mild scarce any Ice at all while this for a few days Froze up our great River Delaware From that Month to the Month called June we enjoy'd a sweet Spring no Gusts but gentle Showers and a fine Skie Yet this I observe that the Winds here as there are most Inconstant Spring and Fall upon that turn of Nature than in Summer or Winter From thence to this present Month which ended the Summer commonly speaking we have had extraordinary Heats yet mitigated sometimes by Cool Breezes The Wind that ruleth the Summer season is the South-West but Spring Fall and Winter 't is rare to want the wholesome North Western seven dayes together And whatever Mists Fogs or Vapours soul the Heavens by Easterly or Southerly Winds in two Hours time are blown away the one is alwayes followed by the other A Remedy that seems to have a peculiar Providence in it to the Inhabitants the multitude of Trees yet standing being liable to retain Mists and Vapours and yet not one quarter so think as I expected The Natural Produce of the Country of Vegetables is Trees Fruits Plants Flowers The Trees of most note are the black Walnut Cedar Cyprus Chestnut Poplar Gumwood Hickery Saffafrax Ash Beech and Oak of divers sorts as Red Whi●e Black Spanish Chestnut and Swamp the most durable of all of All which there is plenty for use of man The Fruits that I find in the Woods are the White and Black Mulberry Chestnut Walnut Plumbs Strawberries Cranberies Hurtleberries Grapes of divers sorts The great Red Grape now ripe called by Ignorance the Fox-G ape because of the Relish it hath with unskilful Palates is in it self an extraordinary Grape and by Art doubtless may be Cultivated to an excellent Wine if not so sweet yet little inferior to the Frontiniack as it is not much unlike in tast Ruddiness set aside which in such things as well as Mankind differs the case much There is a white kind of Muskadel and a little black Grape like the cluster-Grape of England not yet so ripe as the other but they tell me when ripe sweeter and that th●● only want skilful Vinerons to make good use of them I intend to venture on it with my French man this season who shews some knowledge in those things Here are also Peaches and very good and in great quantities not an Indian Plantation without them but whether naturally here at first I know not however one may have them by Bushels for little they make a pleasant Drink and I think not inferior to any Peach you have in England except the true Newington 'T is disputable with me whether it be best to fall to Fining the Fruits of the Country especially the Grape by the care and skill of Art or send for foreign Stems and Sets already good and approved it seems most reasonable to believe that

like breadth In the Center of the City is a Square of Ten Acres at each Angle are to be Houses for Publick Affairs as a Meeting-House Assembly or State-House Market-House School-House and several other Buildings for Publick Concerns There are also in each Quarter of the City a Square of eight Acres to be for the like Uses as the More-Fields in London and eight Streets besides the said High Street that run from Front to Front and twenty Streets besides the Broad Street that run cross the City from side to side all these Streets are of fifty Foot breadth CHAP. VIII A Prospect of Mary-land with the Plantation Scituation and Product thereof THE Province is bounded on the North with Pensylvania on the East by Delaware Bay and the Atlantick Ocean on the South by Virginia from whence it is parted by the River Patowmec● Chesopeak Bay is the passage for Ships both into this Countrey and Virginia and runs through the middle of Maryland being found Navigable neer 200. miles into the Land into which fall divers very considerable Rivers The Climate is very agreeable to the English Constitution especially since the cleering of the ground from Trees and Woods which formerly caused much unhealthfulness neither is the heat extream in Summer being much qualified by the cool winds from the Sea and refreshing Showers and the Winter so moderate as doth no way incommode the Inhabitants It is seated between 37 and 40 Degrees of North Latitude and was discovered at the same time with Virginia Our first Discoverers relate many strange Rites and Ceremonies used by the Native Indians Mr. T. H. an Englishman writes they believe there are many Gods which they call Mantoac but of different sorts and degrees yet that there is one only Chief and Great God which hath been from all Eternity who they say when he purposed to make the World created first other Gods of a Principal Order to be as Means and Instruments used in the Creation and then the Sun Moon and Stars as petty Gods Out of the Waters they affirm all the diversity of Creatures were made and for Mankind that Woman was made first who by the assistance of one of the Gods conceived and brought forth Children but know not how long it was since this was done having no Arithmetick nor Records but only Tradition from Father to Son They make the Images of their Gods in the Shapes of men placing one at least in their Houses or Temples where they worship pray sing and make offerings They believe that after this Life the Soul shall be disposed of according to its works here either to the habitacle of the Gods to enjoy perpetual happiness or to a great pit or hole in the furthest part of their Countrey toward Sunset which they think the furthest part of the World there to be burnt continually This place they call Popogusso and relate that the Grave of one who was buried was the next day seen to move whereupon his Body was taken up again who then revived and declared that his Soul was very near entring into Popogusso had not one of the Gods saved him and suffered him to return and warn his Friends to avoid that terrible place another being taken up related that his Soul was alive while his Body was in the Grave and had been Travelling in a long broad way on both sides whereof grew delicate Trees bearing excellent Fruits and at length arrived to most curious Houses where he met his Father that was dead before who charged him to go back and shew his Friends what good they were to do to enjoy the pleasures of this place and then to return to him again whatever tricks or subtilty the Priests use the Vulgar are hereby very respectful to their Governours and careful of their Actions though in Criminal Causes they inflict punishments according to the quality of the offence they are great Necromancers and account our Fire-works Guns and Writing to be the Works of Gods rather than Men when one of their Kings was sick he sent to the English to pray for him some of them imagin that we are not mortal Men nor born of women but an old Generation revived and believe that there are more of us yet to come to kil their nation and take their places who are at present invisibly in the Air without bodys and that at their Intercession they cause those of their Nation to ●●e who wrong the English Their Idol they place in the innermost room of their House of whom they relate incredible storys they carry it with them to the Wars and ask Counsel thereof as the Romans did of their Oracles They sing Songs as they march toward battel instead of Drums and Trumpets their Wars are exceeding bloudy and have wasted the people very much A certain King called Piemacum having invited many men and Women of the Secotans to a Feast whilst they were merry and praying before their Idol came upon them and slew them When one of their Kings had conspired against the English a Chiefman about him said That we were the servants of God and not subject to be destroyed by them and that when we were dead we could do them more hurt than when alive One Owen Griffin an Eye-witness thus tells of their Ceremonies The eldest among them riseth upright the rest sitting still and looking about cryes out aloud Baw Waw then the women fall down and lie upon the ground and repeating Baw Waw altogether fall to stamping furiously with both feet round the Fire making the ground shake with dreadful shoutings and outcryes thrusting firebrands into the Earth and then ceasing a while of a sudden they begin as before stamping till the younger sort fetched many stones from the shoar of which every man took one and first beat upon them with their firesticks and then the earth with all their strength in which exercise they continued above two hours after which they that had wives withdrew themselves with them severally into the Woods this seemed to be their Evening Devotion when they have obtained some great Victory or deliverance they use solemn rejoycing by making a great Fire and incompassing the same promiscuously men and women together making a great noise with rattles in their hands Once a year they hold a great Festival meeting together out of divers Villages each having a certain Mark or Character on his back whereby it may be discerned whose Subject he is The place where they meet is spacious and round about are Posts carved on the top like a Nuns head in the midst are three of the fairest Virgins lovingly imbracing and clasping each other about this living Image and Artificial Circle they dance in their Savage manner Their chief Idol called Kiwasa is made of wood four foot High the face resembling the Inhabitants of Florida painted with flesh-colour the brest white the other parts black the legs only spotted with white with chains and strings of Beads about