Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia; Expressing the Cosmographie and Comodities of the Country, Together with the Manners and Customes of the People As Collected by William Strachey, Gent., the First Secretary of the Colony
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- EDITOR's PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- LETTER FROM THE LORD DELAWARR
- THE FIRST BOOKE
- A PRÆMONITION TO THE READER
- CAPUT I The Cosmographie of Virginia; latitude and bounds; extention upon a right lyne; first division—the quality of the mountaynes, and description of the high land; subdivided; her temperature, wynds, soyle, valies, plaines, marishes, etc.
- CAPUT II Description of the five principall rivers within the Chesapeak Bay, together with such by-streames which fall into them; a description of the Sasquesahanougs of Cape La Warre; the falling with our coast; the fitness of Cape Comfort to fortefie at
- CAPUT III Of the begynning and originall of the people; the great King Powhatan, his description, and sale of his birthright to the English
- CAPUT IV A catalogue of the severall weroances' names, with the name of the particuler province wherein they govern, togither with what forces for the present they are able to furnish their great king, Powhatan, in his warrs
- CAPUT V A true description of the people, of their cullour, attire, ornaments, constitutions, dispositions, etc.
- CAPUT VI The manner of the Virginian government, their townes, their howses, dyett, fowling, and hunting, their gaining, musique, dauncing
- CAPUT VII Of the religion amongst the inhabitants,—their god, their temples, their opinion of the creation of the world, and of the immortalitie of the sowle, of their conjurations and sacrificing of children
- CAPUT VIII Their manner of warrs, and consultations thereabout; of certain prophesies amongst them; of Powhatan's auncient enemies, and how they maie be wrought into league with us, and turned against him, whereby we maie bring him likewise to be in freindship with us; of their bowes, arrowes, and swordes, targetts, drumes; of their phisick and chirurgery
- CAPUT IX Of their æconomick or howshold affaires; how they obteyne their wives; the women's works; and wherefore they contend for rnanie wives
- CAPUT X Of the commodities of the country,—fruicts, trees, beasts, fowle, fish, perle, copper, and mines
- BOOK THE SECOND
- A DICTIONARIE OF THE INDIAN LANGUAGE
- Index
- Plate section
CAPUT IV - A catalogue of the severall weroances' names, with the name of the particuler province wherein they govern, togither with what forces for the present they are able to furnish their great king, Powhatan, in his warrs
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- EDITOR's PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- LETTER FROM THE LORD DELAWARR
- THE FIRST BOOKE
- A PRÆMONITION TO THE READER
- CAPUT I The Cosmographie of Virginia; latitude and bounds; extention upon a right lyne; first division—the quality of the mountaynes, and description of the high land; subdivided; her temperature, wynds, soyle, valies, plaines, marishes, etc.
- CAPUT II Description of the five principall rivers within the Chesapeak Bay, together with such by-streames which fall into them; a description of the Sasquesahanougs of Cape La Warre; the falling with our coast; the fitness of Cape Comfort to fortefie at
- CAPUT III Of the begynning and originall of the people; the great King Powhatan, his description, and sale of his birthright to the English
- CAPUT IV A catalogue of the severall weroances' names, with the name of the particuler province wherein they govern, togither with what forces for the present they are able to furnish their great king, Powhatan, in his warrs
- CAPUT V A true description of the people, of their cullour, attire, ornaments, constitutions, dispositions, etc.
- CAPUT VI The manner of the Virginian government, their townes, their howses, dyett, fowling, and hunting, their gaining, musique, dauncing
- CAPUT VII Of the religion amongst the inhabitants,—their god, their temples, their opinion of the creation of the world, and of the immortalitie of the sowle, of their conjurations and sacrificing of children
- CAPUT VIII Their manner of warrs, and consultations thereabout; of certain prophesies amongst them; of Powhatan's auncient enemies, and how they maie be wrought into league with us, and turned against him, whereby we maie bring him likewise to be in freindship with us; of their bowes, arrowes, and swordes, targetts, drumes; of their phisick and chirurgery
- CAPUT IX Of their æconomick or howshold affaires; how they obteyne their wives; the women's works; and wherefore they contend for rnanie wives
- CAPUT X Of the commodities of the country,—fruicts, trees, beasts, fowle, fish, perle, copper, and mines
- BOOK THE SECOND
- A DICTIONARIE OF THE INDIAN LANGUAGE
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
The great king Powhatan hath devided his countrey into many provinces or shiers (as yt were), and over every one placed a severall absolute weroance or comaunder, to him contributary to governe the people, ther to inhabite; and his petty weroances, in all, may be in number about three or fower and thirty, all which have theire precincts and bowndes, proper and comodiously appointed out, that no one intrude uppon the other of severall forces; and for the ground wherein each one soweth his corne, plante his apoke and gardeine fruicts, he tithes to the great king of all the comodityes growing in the same, or of what ells his shiere brings forth apperteyning to the lands or rivers, corne, beasts, perle, fowle, fish, hides, furrs, copper, beades, by what meanes soever obteyned, a peremptory rate sett downe as shal be mencioned to remember here, and offer to consideracion (for all after occasions), a cathologue of the several weroances’ names, with the denominatyon of the particuler shier (as aforesaid) wherein they governe togither, with what forces, for the present, they are able to send unto the warrs. Upon Powhatan, or the King's river, are seated as followeth:—
1. Parahunt, one of Powhatan's sonnes, whome we therefore call Tanxpowatan, which is as much to say Little Powhatan, and is weroance of the country which hath his owne name, called Powhatan, lying (as before mencioned) close under the Falls, bordering the Monacans, and he maye at the present be furnished with fifty fighting and ready men.
2. Ashuaquid, weroance of Arrohateck, sixty men.
3. Coquonasum, weroance of Appamatuck, one hundred men.
4. […]
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