A50170:124
The triumphs of the reformed religion in America the life of the renowned John…
The triumphs of the reformed religion in America the life of the renowned John Eliot, a person justly famous in the church of God, not only as an eminent Christian and an excellent minister among the English, but also as a memorable evangelist among the Indians of New-England : with some account concerning the late and strange success of the Gospel in those parts of the world which for many ages have lain buried in pagan ignorance / written by Cotton Mather.The triumphs of the reformed religion in America the life of the renowned John Eliot, a person justly famous in the church of God, not only as an eminent Christian and an excellant minister among the English, but also as a memorable evangelist amoung the Indians of New-England : with some account concerning the late and strange success of the Gospel in those parts of the world which for many ages have lain buried in pagan ignorance / written by Cotton Mather.
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris and John Allen for Joseph Brunning, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
They live in a Country, full of the best Ship-Timber under Heaven: but never, saw a Ship till some came from Europe hither; and then they were scared out of their wits, to see the Monster come sailing in, and spitting fire with a mighty noise, out of her floating side; they cross the water, in Canoe's, made sometimes of Trees which they burn and hew, till they have •ollow'd them; and sometimes of Barks, which they stitch into a light fort of a Vessel, to be easily carried over land; if they over-set, it is but a little paddling like a dog, and they are soon where they were.
They live in a Countrey, full of the best Ship-Timber under Heaven: but never, saw a Ship till some came from Europe hither; and then they were scar'd out of their wits, to see the Monster come sailing in, and spitting fire with a mighty noise, out of her floating side; they cross the water, in Canoo's, made sometimes of Trees which they burn and hew, till they have •ollow'd them; and sometimes of Barks, which they stitch into a light fort of a Vessel, to be •asily carried over land; if they over-sett, it is but a little paddling like a dog, and they are soon where they were.
Their way of living, is infinitely Barbarous: the men are most abominably slothful; making their poor Squaws, or wives, to plant, and dress, and barn, and beat there Corn, and Build their Wigwams for them; which perhaps may be the reason of their extraordinary ease in Childbirth. In the mean time, their chief employment, when they'll condescend unto any, is that of Hunting; wherein they'll go out some scores, if not Hundreds of them in a company, driving all before them.
Their way of living, is infinitely Barbarous: the men are most abominably sloathful; making their poor Sqaws, or wives, to plant, and dress, and barn, and beat there Corn, and Build their Wigwains for them; which perhaps may be the reason of their extraordinary ease in Childbirth. In the mean time, their chief employment, when they'l condescend unto any, is that of Hunting; wherein they'l go out some scores, if not Hundreds of them in a company, driving all before them.