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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. ; [Two lines from Luke]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris for Joseph Brunning i.e, 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 five 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 Minister, 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 hollowed them; and sometimes of B•rks, which they stitch into a light so•t 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 five 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 Minister, 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 hollow'd them; and sometimes of B•rks, which they stitch into a light so•t of a Vessel, to be easily 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, Wig wams for them; which perhaps may be the reason of their extraordinary ease in Childbirth. In the mean time, their chief employment, when they I condescend unto any, is that of Hunting; wherein they'• 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 sl•athful; making their poor Sqaws, or wives, to plant, and dress, and barn, and beat there Corn, and Build their, Wig wams for them; which perhaps may be the reason of their extraordinary ease in Childbirth. In the mean time, their chief employment, when they I condescend unto any, is that of Hunting; wherein they' go out some scores, if not Hundreds of them in a company, driving all before them.