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adventures afterwards ALEXANDER WILSON American appearance arms arrival arrows Bartholomew Gosnold Bartram birds boat CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH Captain Newport Captain Smith character Chesapeake Bay Chickahominy River chief colonists colony command conduct corn countrymen death delight detained enemies engaged England English enterprise escape exertions expedition favor feeling fire friends gave give habits hatan heard heart honor hundred Indians interest James River Jamestown journey Kecoughtan kind labors land letter living Lord Delaware manner ment miles mind Monacans narrative natives nature ness never night obliged Opechancanough ORNITHOLOGY passed Plymouth Pocahontas Powhatan present President probably proceeded provisions Rappahannoc received sailed savage says seems sent settlement ship shore soon spirit success suffer supposed swords taste thing tion told took town trees tribes Turks vessel Virginia voyage Werowocomoco Wilson woods wounded writings York River
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Strona 345 - After some six weeks fatting amongst those savage courtiers, at the minute of my execution, she hazarded the beating out of her own brains to save mine...
Strona 66 - One of my boys caught a mouse in school, a few days ago, and directly marched up to me with his prisoner. I set about drawing it that same evening; and all the while the pantings of its little heart showed it to be in the most extreme agonies of fear. I had intended to kill it, in order to fix it in the claws of a stuffed owl ; but, happening to spill a few drops of water near where it was tied, it lapped it up with such eagerness, and looked in my face with such an...
Strona 231 - Onawmanient, where all the woods were layd with ambuscado's to the number of three or foure thousand Salvages, so strangely paynted, grimed and disguised, shouting, yelling and crying as so many spirits from hell could not have shewed more terrible.
Strona 191 - Eagles feathers within a ridge of silver, richly garnished with gold and precious stones...
Strona 210 - His high reputation and frank, manly bearing had made him popular with the majority of the colonists, and his influence over them had excited the envy and dislike of some of the leaders ; while his pride of character and conscious innocence prevented him probably from making any exertions to conciliate them. He was accused by Wingfield and others of entering into a conspiracy to murder the council, usurp the government, and make himself king of Virginia.
Strona 346 - England ; the first Christian ever of that nation, the first Virginian ever spake English, or had a child in marriage by an Englishman, a matter surely, if my meaning be truly considered and well understood, worthy a prince's understanding.
Strona 224 - there was now no talk, no hope, no work, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold.
Strona 368 - Whereunto is annexed the proceedings of those colonies, since their first departure from England, with the discourses, orations, and relations of the salvages, and the accidents that befell them in all their journles and discoveries taken faithfully as they were written out of the writings of Doctor Russell, Richard Wiefln.
Strona 278 - Notwithstanding the eternal allseeing God did prevent him, and by a strange meanes. For Pocahontas, his dearest Jewell and daughter, in that darke night came through the irksome woods, and told our Captaine great cheare should be sent us by and by : but Powhatan and all the...
Strona 345 - ... desperate estate, gave me much cause to respect her ; I being the first Christian this proud king and his grim attendants ever saw ; and thus inthralled in their barbarous power, I cannot say I felt the least occasion of want that was in the power of those my mortal foes to prevent, notwithstanding all their threats.