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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 3 (search)
said ship sailed also out of Bristol three or four small ships fraught with slight and gross merchandises, as coarse cloth, caps, laces, points, and other trifles, and so departed from Bristol in the beginning of May: of whom in this Mayor's time returned no tidings. Of three savage men which he brought home, and presented unto the King in the seventeenth year of his reign. This year also were brought unto the King three men taken in the new found island, that before I spake of in William Purchas' time, being Mayor. These were clothed in beast's skins, and ate raw flesh, and spake such speech that no man could understand them, and in their demeanor like to brute beasts, whom the King kept a time after. Of the which upon two years past after, I saw two apparelled after the manner of Englishmen, in Westminster Palace, which at that time I could not discern from Englishmen, till I was learned what they were. But as for speech, I heard none of them utter one word. John Baptis
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 13 (search)
Book XIII: Henry Hudson and the New Netherlands. (A. D. 1609-1626.) The extracts relating to Henry Hudson are reprinted from a very valuable book, containing many original documents in regard to him, and entitled Henry Hudson the Navigator. The original documents in which his career is recorded . . . with an Introduction by G. M. Asher, Ll.D. London, Hakluyt Society, 1859, pp. 77-93, 174-179, 117-123. The same narratives may be found in Purchas's Pilgrims, vol. III. There is a Life of Henry Hudson by Henry R. Cleveland in Sparks's American Biography, vol. x. Brodhead's History of New York and O'Callaghan's History of New Netherlands also contain much information concerning him. To show the result of Hudson's discoveries, I give also a series of extracts from early Dutch chronicles, describing in quaint language the first founding of the New Netherlands. It is translated from Wassenaer's Historie van Europa (Amsterdam, 1621-1632), and is taken from O'Callaghan's Doc
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, Index. (search)
. Perce, Michael, 298. Pierria, Captain Albert de la, 148, 149, 151. Pilgrims at Plymouth, 309-338. Pizarro, Fernando, 121. Plymouth (Mass.) Colony, 309-338. Plymouth Rock, first landing on, 326; final disembarkation on, 328. Pocahontas, 241, 245, 252, 257-259. Popham, George, Captain, 222, 225. Sir John, 225. Colony, The, 222-225. Powhatan, 233, 244-248, 252, 257, 258, 261, 262. Prickett, Abacuk, 296. Princess, Indian, visit to, 184, 249. Ptolemy, 36. Purchas, William, 57. Puritans, leaving Delft Haven, 341; sea-adventure of, 355; privations of, 358. Q. Quigalta, Cacique of, 136, 137. Quiyougkcosoucks, 238. R. Raleigh, Sir, Walter, 169, 177, 186, 188, 189, 190, 203, 220. Ramusius, John B., 58. Ratliffe, J., Captain, 232, 233. Rawhunt, 246. Ribaut, Captain, Jean, in Florida, 143-166 Rolfe, John, 257. Thomas, 263. Rosier, James, 202. S. Saint Cler, Monsieur, 162. Salem (Mass.) harbor, 343, 349. Samoset, 337. S