The Beginnings of Agriculture in AmericaMcGraw-Hill, 1923 - 323 Seiten |
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Seite 144 - ... great store of provisions, as fat hogs, kids, venison, poultry, geese, partridges, etc., so as the like joy and manifestation of love had never been seen in New England. It was a great marvel, that so much people and such store of provisions could be gathered together at so few hours
Seite 54 - The leaves thereof being dried and brought into powder, they use to take the fume or smoke thereof by sucking it through pipes made of clay...
Seite 55 - The Floridians when they travel have a kind of herb dried, who, with a cane and an earthen cup in the end, with fire and the dried herbs put together, do suck through the cane the smoke thereof, which smoke satisfieth their hunger and therewith they live four or five days without meat or drink.
Seite 95 - ... an other work is their planting of corne, wherein they exceede our English husband-men, keeping it so cleare with their Clamme shell-hooes, as if it were a garden rather than a corne-field, not suffering a choaking weede to advance his audacious head above their infant corne, or an undermining worme to spoile his spumes.
Seite 112 - Spaniards in recompense of our courtesy, caused a great herd of white bulls and kine to be brought together from the mountains, and appointed for every gentleman and captain that would ride, a horse ready saddled, and then singled out three of the best of them to be hunted by horsemen after their manner ; so that the pastime grew very pleasant...
Seite 30 - This berry," says Roger Williams (Key, in Hist. Coll., vol. iii. p. 221), " is the wonder of all the fruits growing naturally in those parts. It is of itself excellent ; so that one of the chiefest doctors of England was wont to say, that God could have made, but God never did make, a better berry. In some parts, where the natives have planted, I have many times seen as many as would fill a good ship, within few miles
Seite 287 - If they mean, not so wholsome as the good beere and wine in London, (which they so dearly love,) we will not dispute with them ; but els, for water, it is as good as any in the world, (for ought we knowe,) and it is wholsome enough to us that can be contente therwith.
Seite 56 - We our selves, during the time we were there, used to sucke it after their maner, as also since our returne, and have found many rare and woonderfull experiments of the vertues thereof...
Seite 237 - I could be made useful to you therein, you might command my services with the greatest freedom. Within full view of Mount Vernon, separated therefrom by water only, is one of the most beautiful seats on the river for sale, but of greater magnitude than you seem to have contemplated. It is called Belvoir, and belonged to George William Fairfax...
Seite 94 - Then their setting or sowing is after this maner. First for their corne, beginning in one corner of the plot, with a pecker they make a hole, wherein they put foure graines with that care they touch not one another, (about an inch asunder...