A true and faithful account of the four chiefest plantations of the English in America to wit, of Virginia, New-England, Bermudus, Barbados : with the temperature of the air, the nature of the soil, the rivers, mountains, beasts, fowls, birds, fishes, trees, plants, fruits, &c. : as also, of the natives of Virginia, and New-England, their religion, customs, fishing, hunting, &c. / collected by Samuel Clarke ...

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Title: A true and faithful account of the four chiefest plantations of the English in America to wit, of Virginia, New-England, Bermudus, Barbados : with the temperature of the air, the nature of the soil, the rivers, mountains, beasts, fowls, birds, fishes, trees, plants, fruits, &c. : as also, of the natives of Virginia, and New-England, their religion, customs, fishing, hunting, &c. / collected by Samuel Clarke ...
Author: Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.
Publication: London :: Printed for Robert Clavel, Thomas Passenger, William Cadman, William Whitwood, Thomas Sawbridge, and William Birch,; 1670.
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Of their Arts and Manufactures.

They dress all manner of Skins, by scraping and rubbing, and curi∣ously paint them with unchangable colours, and sometimes take off the hair, especially if they be not in season. They make handsome Bows, which they string with Mooses sinews: Their Arrows they make of young Eldern, which they feather with Eagles feathers, and head them with Brass in shape of a Triangle. Their Cordage is so even, smooth, and soft, that its liker Silk than Hemp. Their Canows are either made of Pine-trees, which, before they had English Tools, they burned hollow scraping them smooth with the shels of Clams, and Oysters, cutting their out-sides with Hatchets of Stone: Others they make of Birch rinds, which are so light that a man may carry one of them on his back. In these tottering Boats they will go to Sea, scudding over the waves, row∣ing with a Paddle: If a Wave turn her over, by swimming they turn her up, and get into her again.