The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1899 |
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Albany Algonquin Allefonsce American coast Amsterdam Atlantic Cabo de Arenas Cabot called Cape Cod Cape Henlopen Captain century Charles charter Chesapeake colony Company's Connecticut Delaware Bay Dieppe Director discovery Donck Dutch Dutchmen East India England English Englishmen Flemish Fort Amsterdam Fort Nassau Fort Orange France French furs Gomez governor Half Moon Henry Hudson Holland Hudson River Indians Iroquois Jean Allefonsce John Kieft king land letter lish Long Island Lord Manhattan Island Melyn ment miles Minuit Mohawks monopoly murder Muscovy Company Narragansett Bay narrow navigator neighbours Nether Netherland Company Norumbega ocean patroon peace Penobscot Pequots Peter Minuit Pilgrims Plymouth Prince provinces Rensselaerwyck River of Norumbega sailed seems sent settlement settlers ship shore skipper Spain Spanish Stuyvesant Stuyvesant's territory tion town trade treaty tribes Twiller Verrazano Virginia visited voyage Vries wampum West India Company William York
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Page 126 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his backbone, just between the shoulders.
Page 126 - His habits were as regular as his person. He daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exactly an hour to each; he smoked and doubted eight hours, and he slept the remaining twelve of the four and twenty.
Page 77 - I sailed to the shore," he says, " in one of their canoes, with an old man, who was the chief of a tribe, consisting of forty men and seventeen women ; these I saw there in a house well constructed of oak bark, and circular in shape, so that it had the appearance of being well built, with an arched roof.
Page 248 - The Second Part of the Amboyna Tragedy ; or, True account of a bloody, treacherous, and cruel plot of the Dutch in America, purporting the total ruin and murder of all the English colonists in New England.
Page 126 - ... he had his doubts about the matter ;" which gained him the reputation of a man slow of belief and not easily imposed upon. What is more, it...
Page 118 - The Patroons and colonists shall in particular, and in the speediest manner, endeavor to find out ways and means whereby they may support a minister and schoolmaster, that thus the service of God and zeal for religion may not grow cool, and be neglected among them ; and that they do, for the first, procure a comforter of the sick there.
Page 18 - ... arms of all kinds, ammunition for war, and household furniture. From England Antwerp receives vast quantities of fine and coarse draperies, fringes, and other things of that kind, to a great value, the finest wool, excellent saffron in small quantities, a great quantity of lead and tin, sheep and rabbit-skins without number, and various other sorts of fine peltry and leather, beer, cheese, and other sorts of provisions in great quantities ; also Malmsey wines, which the English import from Candia.
Page 251 - We derive our authority from God and the Company, not from a few ignorant subjects, and we alone can call the inhabitants together.
Page 75 - This day the people of the countrey came aboord of us, seeming very glad of our comming, and brought greene tobacco, and gave us of it for knives and beads. They goe in deere skins loose, well dressed. They have yellow copper. They desire cloathes, and are very civill. They have great store of maize, or Indian wheate, whereof they make good bread.
Page 126 - His body was oblong and particularly capacious at bottom ; which was wisely ordered by Providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labor of walking.