Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers

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[63] 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 leagues¹ 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,² 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 eighteen or