Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . e morning by breake of day,before they eate or drinke both men, women and children,that be above tenne yeeres of age runnes into the water,there washes themselves a good while till the Sunne riseth,then ofFer Sacrifice to it, strewing Tobacco on the wateror Land, honouring the Sunne as their God, likewise theydoe at the setting of the * Sunne. 1607. Godsgoodnesse. He teas amade man. *T/ie rest isomitted, beingmore fully setdozvne inCap. SmithsRelat
Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . e morning by breake of day,before they eate or drinke both men, women and children,that be above tenne yeeres of age runnes into the water,there washes themselves a good while till the Sunne riseth,then ofFer Sacrifice to it, strewing Tobacco on the wateror Land, honouring the Sunne as their God, likewise theydoe at the setting of the * Sunne. 1607. Godsgoodnesse. He teas amade man. *T/ie rest isomitted, beingmore fully setdozvne inCap. SmithsRelations. [Chap. III. 419 [IV. 1691.] The Latitude.*By laterPatents this isextendedfurther to the30. degrees,&e. The temperature. The winds. PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES Chap. III. The description of Virginia by Captaine JohnSmith, inlarged out of his written Notes. Irginia is a Countrie in America, that liethbetweene the degrees of 34.* and 44. ofthe North Latitude. The bounds thereofon the East side are the great Ocean. Onthe South lieth Florida: on the NorthNova Francia. As for the West thereof,the limits are unknowne. Of all this. Countrie we purpose not to speake, but only of that partwhich was planted by the Englishmen in the yeere of ourLord, 1606. And this is under the degrees 37. 38. anc39. The temperature of this Countrie doth agree English constitutions being- once seasoned to theCountrie. Which appeared by this, that though by manyoccasions our people fell sicke : yet did they recover byverie small meanes and continued in health, though therewere other great causes, not only to have made them sicke,but even to end their dayes, &c. The Summer is hot as in Spaine ; the Winter cold asin France or England. The heate of Summer is in June,July, and August, but commonly the coole Breeses asswagethe vehemencie of the heate. The chiefe of Winter ishalfe December, January, February, and halfe cold is extreme sharpe, but heere the Proverbe istrue, That no extr
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