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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 3 (search)
about with many embracings, accompanying him unto the sea, and, to put him in more assurance, leaving him alone, went unto a high ground, and stood there, beholding him until he was entered into the boat. This young man observed, as we did also, that these are of color inclining to black, as the others were, with their flesh very shining, of mean stature, handsome visage, and delicate limbs, and of very little strength, but of prompt wit; farther we observed not. . . . Verrazzano in Newport harbor. Departing from hence, following the shore, which trended somewhat toward the north, in fifty leagues To land. space we came to another land, which showed much more fair, and full of woods, being very great, where we rode at anchor; and, that we might have some knowledge thereof, we sent twenty men a-land, To land. which entered into the country about two leagues, and they found that the people were fled to the woods for fear. They saw only one old woman with a young maid of e