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- 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 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
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- 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
There is yet, in Virginia, no place discovered to be so savadge and simple, in which the inhabitaunts have not a religion and the use of bow and arrowes: all things they conceave able to doe them hurt beyond their prevention, they adore with their kind of divine worship, as the fier, water, lightning, thunder, our ordinaunce pieces, horses, etc.; but their chief god they worship is no other, indeed, then the divell, whome they make presentments of, and shadow under the forme of an idoll, which they entitle Okeus, and whome they worship, as the Romans did their hurtfull god Vejovis, more for feare of harme then for hope of any good; they saie they have conference with him, and fashion themselves in their disguisments as neere to his shape as they can imagyn.
In every territory of a weroance is a temple and a priest, peradventure two or three; yet happie doth that weroance accompt himself who can detayne with him a Quiyoughquisock, of the best, grave, lucky, well instructed in their misteryes, and beloved of their god; and such a one is noe lesse honoured then was Dianae's priest at Ephesus, for whome they have their more private temples, with oratories and chauncells therein, according as is the dignity and reverence of the Quiyoughquisock, which the weroance wilbe at charge to build upon purpose, sometyme twenty foote broad and a hundred in length, fashioned arbour wyse after their buylding, having comonly the dore opening into the east, and at the west end a spence or chauncell from the body of the temple, with hollow wyndings and pillers, whereon stand divers black imagies, fashioned.
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- Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia; Expressing the Cosmographie and Comodities of the Country, Together with the Manners and Customes of the PeopleAs Collected by William Strachey, Gent., the First Secretary of the Colony, pp. 82 - 100Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1849