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... boat on shore . Many people who were seen coming to the sea - side fled at our approach , but occasionally stopping , they looked back upon us with astonishment , and some were at length induced , by various friendly signs , to come to ...
... boat on shore . Many people who were seen coming to the sea - side fled at our approach , but occasionally stopping , they looked back upon us with astonishment , and some were at length induced , by various friendly signs , to come to ...
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... boat on shore with twenty - five men to obtain water , but it was not possible to land without endangering the boat , on account of the immense high surf thrown up by the sea , as it was an open roadstead . Many of the natives came to ...
... boat on shore with twenty - five men to obtain water , but it was not possible to land without endangering the boat , on account of the immense high surf thrown up by the sea , as it was an open roadstead . Many of the natives came to ...
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... boat seeing a great fire made up , and their companion placed very near it , full of fear , as is usual in all cases of novelty , imagined that the natives were about to roast him for food . But as soon as he had recovered his strength ...
... boat seeing a great fire made up , and their companion placed very near it , full of fear , as is usual in all cases of novelty , imagined that the natives were about to roast him for food . But as soon as he had recovered his strength ...
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... boats made of one tree twenty feet long and four feet broad , without the aid of stone or iron or other kind of metal ... boat , and entering the river , we found the country on its banks well peopled , the inhabitants not dif- fering ...
... boats made of one tree twenty feet long and four feet broad , without the aid of stone or iron or other kind of metal ... boat , and entering the river , we found the country on its banks well peopled , the inhabitants not dif- fering ...
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... boat . We passed up this river , about half a league , when we found it formed a most beautiful lake three leagues in circuit , upon which they were rowing thirty or more of their small boats , from one shore to the other , filled with ...
... boat . We passed up this river , about half a league , when we found it formed a most beautiful lake three leagues in circuit , upon which they were rowing thirty or more of their small boats , from one shore to the other , filled with ...
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Page 33 - He desired me to think no more of it, saying that the occasion justified it, according to the principles and rules of war, and that he should have done the same upon the same occasion, or words to that effect. He did more, he sent an aide-de-camp to conduct me to Albany, in order, as he expressed it, to procure me better quarters than a stranger might be able to find. This gentleman conducted me to a very elegant house, and, to my great surprise, presented me to Mrs. Schuyler and her family ; and...
Page 313 - Cabin, and gave them so much wine and aqua vitae that they were all merrie; and one of them had his wife with him, which sate so modestly, as any of our Countrey women would do in a strange place.
Page 41 - Portugal, with fifty men, having provisions sufficient for eight months, arms and other warlike munition and naval stores. * Sailing westward with a light and pleasant easterly breeze, in twenty-five days we ran eight hundred leagues. On the 24th of February we encountered as violent a hurricane as any ship ever weathered, from which we escaped unhurt by the divine assistance and goodness, to the praise of the glorious and fortunate name of our good ship, that had been able to support the violent...
Page 310 - ... a narrow river to the westward, betweene two ilands. The lands, they told us, were as pleasant with grasse and flowers and goodly trees as ever they had seene, and very sweet smells came from them.
Page 362 - 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 they shall, for the first, procure a Comforter of the sick there.
Page 315 - Beades, and gave them to our Master, and shewed him all the Countrey there about, as though it were at his command. So he made the two old men dine with him, and the old man's wife: for they brought two old women, and two young maidens of the age of sixteene or seventeene yeeres with them, who behaved themselves very modestly.
Page 320 - A Description of the Province of New Albion. And a Direction for Adventurers with small stock to get two for one, and good land freely : And for Gentlemen, and all Servants, Labourers, and Artificers to live plentifully.
Page 45 - ... heavily laden might pass, with the help of the tide, which rises eight feet. But as we were riding at anchor in a good berth, we would not venture up in our vessel, without a knowledge of the mouth ; therefore we took the boat, and entering the river, we found the country on its banks well peopled, the inhabitants not differing much from the others, being dressed out with the feathers of birds of various colours.
Page 50 - Departing from thence, we kept along the coast, steering northeast, and found the country more pleasant and open, free from woods, and distant in the interior we saw lofty mountains, but none which extended to the shore. Within fifty leagues we discovered thirty-two islands, all near the main land, small and of pleasant appearance, but high and so disposed as to afford excellent harbours and channels, as we see in the Adriatic gulf, near Illyria and Dalmatia.
Page 360 - It shall be also free for the aforesaid Patroons to traffic and trade all along the coast of New Netherland and places circumjacent, with such goods as are consumed there, and receive in return for them, all sorts of merchandise that may be had there, except beavers, otters, minks, and all sorts of peltry, which trade the company reserve to themselves. But the same shall be permitted at such places where the company have no factories, conditioned that such traders shall be obliged to bring all the...