A Book of American ExplorersHigginson, Thomas Wentworth
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A Book of American Explorers
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
America -- Discovery and exploration; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
436 – Massasoit was the name of a sachem; but they mistook it for
the name of a tribe.
437 – By.
438 – The fight took place at Martha’s Vineyard, July 1, 1620.
439 – This Captain Hunt had kidnapped Indians, and carried them
to Spain as slaves. The monks of Malaga set them at liberty.
440 – Trade.
441 – Clowns.
442 – Smoked.
443 – Maladies.
444 – These may have been buttercups washed from the shore. It
has also been supposed that they might be _actiniæ_, or
sea-anemones, torn from the rocks.
445 – i.e., signs of fertility, seen in advance.
446 – Gloucester harbor.
447 – Ten-Pound Island.
448 – Afterwards Salem.
449 – John Endicott, who had arrived in September, 1628.
450 – Massachusetts.
451 – Probably the moose. The lions were imaginary.
452 – The flying-squirrel, which has a membrane connecting the
fore and hind paws on each side.
453 – Inconveniences.
454 – i.e., assigned to a certain place in the ship.
455 – To protect the sides of the vessel.
456 – Lady Arbella Johnson, daughter of the Earl of Lincoln, and
wife of Isaac Johnson, to whom the settlement of Boston was
chiefly due. She died soon after her arrival.
457 – A part of Medford, Mass. The farm still retains the name
which he gave it,――“Ten-Hills Farm.”
458 – Gun.
459 – This chief is described by Governor Dudley as “a handsome
young man, conversant with us, affecting English apparel
and houses, and speaking well of our God.”
460 – Oct. 11, 1631.
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