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A46301	An account of two voyages to New-England wherein you have the setting out of a ship, with the charges, the prices of all necessaries for furnishing a planter and his family at his first coming, a description of the countrey, natives, and creatures, with their merchantil and physical use, the government of the countrey as it is now possessed by the English, &c., a large chronological table of the most remarkable passages, from the first dicovering of the continent of America, to the year 1673 / by John Josselyn, Gent.	Josselyn, John, fl. 1630-1675.	1674 (1674)	Wing J1091; ESTC R20234	110,699	292

are the men likewise and as soft and smooth as a mole-skin of reasonable good complexions but that they dye themselves tawnie many prettie Brownetto's and spider finger'd L●sses may be seen amongst them The Vetula's or old women are lean and uglie all of them are of a modest demeanor considering their Savage breeding and indeed do shame our English rusticks whose rudeness in many things exceedeth theirs Of disposition very inconstant crafty timorous quick of apprehension and very ingenious soon angry and so malicious that they seldom forget an injury and barbarously cruel witness their direful revenges upon one another Prone to injurious violence and slaughter by reason of their bloud dryed up with overmuch fire very lecherous proceeding from choller adust and melancholy a salt and sharp humour very fingurative or theevish and bold importunate beggars both Men and Women guilty of Misoxenie or hatred to strangers a quality appropriated to the old Brittains all of them Cannibals caters of humane flesh And so were formerly the Heathen Irish who used to feed upon the Buttocks of Boyes and Womens Paps it seems it is natural to Savage people so to do I have read in Relations of the Indians amongst the Spaniards that they would not eat a Spaniard till they had kept him two or three dayes to wax tender because their flesh was hard At Martins vinyard an Island that lyes South to Plimouth in the way to Virginia certain Indians whilst I was in the Countrey seised upon a Boat that put into to a By Cove kill'd the men and eat them up in a short time before they were discovered Their houses which they call Wigwams are built with Poles pitcht into the ground of a round form for most part sometimes square they bind down the tops of their poles leaving a hole for smoak to go out at the rest they cover with the bark of Trees and line the inside of their Wigwams with mats made of Rushes painted with several colours one good post they set up in the middle that reaches to the hole in the top with a staff a cross before it at a convenient height they knock in a pin on which they hang their Kettle beneath that they set up a broad stone for a back which keepeth the post from burning round by the walls they spread their mats and skins where the men sleep whilst their women dress theis victuals they have commonly two doors one opening to the South the other to the North and according as the wind sits they close up one door with bark and hang a Dears skin or the like before the other Towns they have none being alwayes removing from one place to another for conveniency of food sometimes to those places where one sort of fish is most plentiful other whiles where others are I have seen half hundred of their Wigwams together in a piece of ground and they shew prettily within a day or two or a week they have been all dispersed They live for the most part by the Sea-side especially in the spring and summer quarters in winter they are gone up into the Countrie to hunt Deer and Beaver the younger webbs going with them Tame Cattle they have none excepting Lice and Doggs of a wild breed that they bring up to hunt with Wives they have two or three according to the ability of their bodies and strength of their concupiscence who have the easieft labours of any women in the world they will go out when their time is come alone carrying a board with them two foot long and a foot and half broad bor'd full of holes on each side having a foot beneath like a Jack that we pull Boots off with on the top of the board a broad strap of leather which they put over their fore-head the board hanging at their back when they are come to a Bush or a Tree that they fancy they lay them down and are delivered in a trice not so much as groaning for it they wrap the child up in a young Beaver-skin with his heels close to his britch leaving a little hole if it be a Boy for his Cock to peep out at and lace him down to the board upon his back his knees resting upon the foot beneath then putting the strap of leather upon their fore-head with the infant hanging at their back home they trudge What other ceremonies they use more than dying of them with a liquor of boiled Hemlock-Bark and their throwing of them into the water if they suspect the Child to be gotten by any other Nation to see if he will swim if he swim they acknowledge him for their own their names they give them when they are men grown and covet much to be called after our English manner Robin Harry Phillip and the like very indulgent they are to their Children and their children sometimes to their Parents but if they live so long that they become a burden to them they will either starve them or bury them alive as it was supposed an Indian did his Mother at Casco in 1669. Their Apparel before the English came amongst them was the skins of wild Beasts with the hair on Buskins of Deers-skin or Moose drest and drawn with lines into several works the lines being coloured with yellow blew or red Pumps too they have made of tough skins without soles In the winter when the snow will bear them they fasten to their feet their snow shooes which are made like a large Racket we play at Tennis with lacing them with Deers-guts and the like under their belly they wear a square piece of leather and the like upon their posteriors both fastened to a string tyed about them to hide their secrets on their heads they ware nothing But since they have had to do with the English they purchase of them a sort of Cloth called trading cloth of which they make Mantles Coats with short sleeves and caps for their heads which the women use but the men continue their old fashion going bare-headed excepting some old men amongst them They are very proud as appeareth by their setting themselves out with white and blew Beads of their own making and painting of their faces with the above mentioned colours they weave sometimes curious Coats with Turkie feathers for their Children Their Diet is Fish and Fowl Bear Wild-cat Rattoon and Deer dry'd Oysters Lobsters rosted or dryed in the smoak Lampres and dry'd Moose-tongues which they esteem a dish for a Sagamor hard eggs boiled and made small and dryed to thicken their broth with falt they have not the use of nor bread their Indian Corn and Kidney beans they boil and sometimes eat their Corn parcht or roasted in the ear against the fire they feed likewise upon earth-nuts or ground-nuts rocts of water-Lillies Ches-nuts and divers sorts of Berries They beat their Corn to powder and put it up into bags which they make use of when stormie weather or the like will not suffer them to

other Indians their weapons of Defence and Offence are Bowes and Arrowes of late he is a poor Indian that is not master of two Guns which they purchase of the French and powder and shot they are generally excellent marks men their other weapons are Tamahawks which are staves two foot and a half long with a knob at the end as round as a bowl and as big as that we call the Jack or Mistriss Lances too they have made as I have said before with broken sword blades likewise they have Hatchers and knives but these are weapons of a latter date They colour their faces red all over supposing that it makes them the more terrible they are lusty Souldiers to see to and very strong meer Hercules Rusticuses their fights are by Ambushments and Surprises coming upon one another unawares They will march a hundred miles through thick woods and swamps to the Mowhawks Countrey and the Mowhawks into their Countrey meeting sometimes in the woods or when they come into an Enemies Countrey build a rude fort with Pallizadoes having loop-holes out of which they shoot their Arrowes and fire their Guns pelting at one another a week or moneth together If any of them step out of the Fort they are in danger to be taken prisoners by the one side or the other that side that gets the victory excoriats the hairscalp of the principal slain Enemies which they bear away in Triumph their prisoners they bring home the old men and women they knock in the head the young women they keep and the men of war they torture to death as the Eastern Indians did two M●whawks whilst I was there they bind him to a Tree and make a great fire before him then with sharp knives they cut off the first joynts of his fingers and toes then c●ap upon them hot Embers to sear the vains so they cut him a pieces joynt after joynt still applying hot Embers to the place to stanch the bloud making the poor wretch to sing all the while when Arms and Legs are gone they fl●y off the skin of their Heads and presently put on a Cap of burning Embers then they open his breast and take out his heart which while it is yet living in a manner they give to their old Squaes who are every one to have a bite at it These Barbarous Customs were used amongst them more frequently before the English came but since by the great mercy of the Almighty they are in a way to be Civilized and converted to Christianity there being three Churches of Indians gathered together by the pains of Mr. John Eliot and his Son who Preaches to them in their Native language and hath rendered the Bible in that Language for the benefit of the Indians These go clothed like the English live in framed houses have flocks of Corn and Cattle about them which when they are fat they bring to the English Markets the Hogs that they rear are counted the best in New-England Some of their Sons have been brought up Scholars in Harvard Colledge and I was told that there was but two Fellowes in that Colledge and one of them was an Indian some few of these Christian Indians have of late Apostatized and fallen back to their old Superstition and course of life Thus much shall suffice concerning New-England as it was when the Indians solely possest it I will now proceed to give you an accompt of it as it is under the management of the English but methinks I hear my sceptick Readers muttering out of their scuttle mouths what will accrew to us by this rambling Logodiarce you do but bring straw into Egypt a Countrey abounding with Corn. Thus by these Famacides who are so minutely curious I am dejected from my hope whilst they challenge the freedom of David's Russins Our Tongues are our own who shall controll us I have done what I can to please you I have piped and you will not dance I have told you as strange things as ever you or your Fathers have heard The Italian saith Chi vide un miraculo facilmente ne crede un altro he that hath seen one miracle will easilie believe another miranda canunt sed non credenda poetae Oh I see the pad you never heard nor saw the like therefore you do not believe me well Sirs I shall not strain your belief and further the following Relation I hope will be more tolerable yet I could it is possible insert as wonderful things as any my pen hath yet gone over and may but it must be upon condition you will not put me to the proof of it Nemo tenetur ad impossibilia no man is obliged to do more than is in his power is a rule in law To be short if you cannot with the Bee gather the honey with the Spider suck out the poyson as Sir John Davis hath it The Bee and Spider by a divers power Suck honey and poyson from the self-same flower I am confident you will get but little poyson here no 't is the poyson of Asps under your tongue that swells you truly I do take you rather to be Spider catchers than Spiders such as will not laudably imploy themselves nor suffer others you may well say non amo hominem sed non possum dicere quare unless it be because I am a Veronessa no Romancer To conclude if with your mother wit you can mend the matter take pen in hand and fall to work do your Countrey some service as I have done according to my Talent Henceforth you are to expect no more Relations from me I am now return'd into my Native Countrey and by the providence of the Almighty and the bounty of my Royal Soveraigness am disposed to a holy quiet of study and meditation for the good of my soul and being blessed with a transmentitation or change of mind and weaned from the world may take up for my word non est mortale quod opto If what I have done is thought uprears for the approvement of those to whom it is intended I shall be more than meanly contented New-England was first discovered by John Cabota and his Son Sebastian in Anno Dom. 1514. A further discovery afterwards was made by the honourable Sir Walter Rawleigh Knight in Anno 1584. when as Virginia was discovered which together with Mary-land New-England Nova Scotia was known by one common name to the Indians Wingandicoa and by Sir Walter Rawleigh in honour of our Virgin Queen in whose n●me he took poss●ssion of it Virginia In King James his Reign it was divided into Provinces as is before named In 1602. these north parts were further discovered by Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold The first English that planted there set down not far from the Narragansets-Bay and called their Colony Plimouth since old Plimouth An. Dom. 1602. Sir John Popham Lord chief Justice authorized by his Majesty King James sent a Colony of English to Sagadebock An. 1606. Newfound-land was discovered

upon a Rock at Cape-Ann a Boat passing by with English aboard and two Indians they would have shot the Serpent but the Indians disswaded them saying that if he were not kill'd out-right they would be all in danger of their lives One Mr. Mittin related of a Triton or Mereman which he saw in Cascebay the Gentleman was a great Fouler and used to goe out with a small Boat or Canow and fetching a compass about a small Island there being many small Islands in the Bay for the advantage of a shot was encountred with a Triton who laying his hands upon the side of the Canow had one of them chopt off with a Hatchet by Mr. Mittin which was in all respects like the hand of a man the Triton presently sunk dying the water with his purple blood and was no more seen The next story was told by Mr. Foxwell now living in the province of Main who having been to the Eastward in a Shallop as far as Cape-Ann-a Waggon in his return was overtaken by the night and fearing to land upon the barbarous shore he put off a little further to Sea about midnight they were wakened with a loud voice from the shore calling upon Foxwell Foxwell come a shore two or three times upon the Sands they saw a great fire and Men and Women hand in hand dancing round about it in a ring after an hour or two they vanished and as soon as the day appeared Foxwell puts into a small Cove it being about three quarters floud and traces along the shore where he found the footing of Men Women and Children shod with shoos and an infinite number of brands-ends thrown up by the water but neither Indian nor English could he meet with on the shore nor in the woods these with many other stories they told me the credit whereof I will neither impeach nor inforce but sh●ll satisfie my self and I hope the Reader hereof with the saying of a wise learned and honourable Knight that there are many stranger things in the world than are to be seen between London and Stanes September the Sixth day one Mr. John Hickford the Son of Mr. Hickford a Linnen-Draper in Cheapside having been sometime in the province of Main and now determined to return for England sold and kill'd his stock of Cattle and Hoggs one great Sow he had which he made great account of but being very fat and not suspecting that she was with pig he caused her to be kill'd and they sound 25 pigs within her belly verifying the old proverb As fruitful as a white sow And now we were told of a sow in Virginia that brought forth six pigs their fore-parts Lyons their hinder-parts hogs I have read that at Bruxels Anno 1564. a sow brought forth six pigs the first whereof for the last in generating is alwayes in bruit beasts the first brought forth had the head face arms and legs of a man but the whole trunck of the body from the neck was of a swin● a sodomitical monster is more like the mother than the father in the organs of the vegetative soul The Three and twentieth I left Black-point and came to Richmonds Island about three leagues to the Eastward where Mr. Tralanie kept a fishing Mr. John Winter a grave and discreet man was his Agent and imployer of 60 men upon that design The Four and twentieth day being Munday I went aboard the Fellowship of 100 and 70 Tuns a Flemish bottom the Master George Luxon of Bittiford in Devonshire several of my friends came to bid me farewell among the rest Captain Thomas Wannerton who drank to me a pint of kill-devil alias Rhum at a draught at 6 of the clock in the morning we weighed Anchor and set sail for the Massachusets-bay The Seven and twentieth day being Fryday we Anchored in the afternoon in the Massachusets-bay before Boston Next day I went aboard of Mr. Hinderson Master of a ship of 500 Tuns and Captain Jackson in the Queen of Bohemia a privateer and from thence I went ashore to Boston where I refreshed my self at an Ordinary Next morning I was invited to a fishermans house somewhat lower within the Bay and was there by his Wife presented with a handful of small Pearl but none of them bored nor orient From thence I crost the Bay to Charles-town where at one Longs Ordinary I met with Captain Jackson and others walking on the back side we spi●d a rattle Snake a yard and half long and as thick in the middle as the small of a mans leg on the belly yellow her back spotted with black russet yellow and green placed like scales at her tail she had a rattle which is nothing but a hollow shelly bussiness joynted look how many years old she is so many rattles she hath in her tail her neck seemed to be no bigger than ones Thumb yet she swallowed a live Chicken as big as one they give 4 pence for in England presently as we were looking on In the afternoon I returned to our Ship being no sooner aboard but we had the sight of an Indian-Pinnace sailing by us made of Birch-bark scwed together with the roots of spruse and white Cedar drawn out into threads with a deck and trimmed with sails top and top gallant very sumptuously The Thirtieth day of September I went ashore upon Noddles-Island where when I was come to Mr. Mavericks he would not let me go aboard no more until the Ship was ready to set sail the next day a grave and sober person described the Monster to ●ne that was born at Boston of one Mrs. Dyer a great Sectarie the Nine and twentieth of June it was it should seem without a head but having horns like a Beast and ears scales on a rough skin like a fish called a Thornback legs and claws like 〈◊〉 Hawke and in other respects as a Woman-child The Second of October about 9 of the clock in the morning Mr. Mavericks Negro woman came to my chamber window and in her own Countrey language and tune sang very loud and shril going out to her she used a great deal of respect towards me and willingly would have expressed her grief in English but I apprehended it by her countenance and deportment whereupon I repaired to my host to learn of him the cause and resolved to intreat him in her behalf for that I understood before that she had been a Queen in her own Countrey and observed a very humble and dutiful garb used towards her by another Negro who was her maid Mr. Maverick was desirous to have a breed of Negroes and therefore seeing she would not yield by perswasions to company with a Negro young man he had in his house he commanded him will'd she nill'd she to go to bed to her which was no sooner done but she kickt him out again this she took in high disdain beyond her slavery and this was the cause of her grief In the afternoon I walked into the Woods