Study Notes - Us History to 1877
A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants. Discovered by the English Colony there seated by Sir Richard Greinvlle Knight In the yeer 1585. Which [unclear: Remaiaed] Under the government of twelve monethes, At the special charge and direction of the Honourable SIR WALTER RALEIGH Knight lord Warden of the stanneries. Who therein hath beene favoured and authorised by her MAIESTIE and her letters patents
Thomas Hariot, 1588
THE THIRD AND LAST PART, OF SUCH OTHER THINGES AS IS BEHOOFfull for those which shall plant and inhabit to know of; with a description of the nature and manners of the people of the countrey.
Part II Of the nature and manners of the people.
It rests I speak a word or two of the natural inhabitants, their natures and manners , leaving large discourse thereof until time more convenient hereafter: now only so far forth , as that you may know, how that they in respect of troubling our inhabiting and planting, are not to be feared; but that they shall have cause both to fear and love us that shall inhabit with them.
They are a people clothed with loose mantles made of Deer skins, & aprons of the same round about their middles; all else naked; of such a difference of statures only as we in England; having no edge tools or weapons of iron or steel to offend us withal , neither know they how to make any: those weapons that they have, are only bows made of Witch hazel , & arrows of reeds; flat edged truncheons also of wood about a yard long, neither have they any thing to defend themselves but targets made of bark ; and some armor made of sticks wickered together with thread.
Their towns are but small, & near the sea coast but few, some containing but 10 or 12 houses: some 20. the greatest that we have seen have been but of 30 houses: if they be walled it is only done with barks of trees made fast to stakes, or else with poles only fixed upright and close one
Thomas Hariot, 1588
THE THIRD AND LAST PART, OF SUCH OTHER THINGES AS IS BEHOOFfull for those which shall plant and inhabit to know of; with a description of the nature and manners of the people of the countrey.
Part II Of the nature and manners of the people.
It rests I speak a word or two of the natural inhabitants, their natures and manners , leaving large discourse thereof until time more convenient hereafter: now only so far forth , as that you may know, how that they in respect of troubling our inhabiting and planting, are not to be feared; but that they shall have cause both to fear and love us that shall inhabit with them.
They are a people clothed with loose mantles made of Deer skins, & aprons of the same round about their middles; all else naked; of such a difference of statures only as we in England; having no edge tools or weapons of iron or steel to offend us withal , neither know they how to make any: those weapons that they have, are only bows made of Witch hazel , & arrows of reeds; flat edged truncheons also of wood about a yard long, neither have they any thing to defend themselves but targets made of bark ; and some armor made of sticks wickered together with thread.
Their towns are but small, & near the sea coast but few, some containing but 10 or 12 houses: some 20. the greatest that we have seen have been but of 30 houses: if they be walled it is only done with barks of trees made fast to stakes, or else with poles only fixed upright and close one