A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia by Thomas Hariot
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and get vp the next tree they can, from whence with arrowes they are
shot downe starke dead, or with those wounds that they may after easily bekilled; we sometime shotte them downe with our caleeuers. I haue the names of eight & twenty seuerall sortes of beasts which I haue heard of to be here and there dispersed in the countrie, especially in the maine: of which there are only twelue kinds that we haue yet discouered, & of those that be good meat we know only them before mentioned. The inhabitats somtime kil the 'Lyon' & eat him: & we somtime as they came to our hands of their 'Wolues' or 'woluish Dogges', which I haue not set downe for good meat, least that some woulde vnderstand my iudgement therin to be more simple than needeth, although I could alleage the difference in taste of those kindes from ours, which by some of our company haue been experimented in both. 'Of Foule.' 'Turkie cockes' and 'Turkie hennes': 'Stockdoues': 'Partridges': 'Cranes': 'Hernes': & in winter great store of 'Swannes' & 'Geese'. Of al sortes of foule I haue the names in the countrie language of fourescore and sixe of which number besides those that be named, we haue taken, eaten, & haue the pictures as they were there drawne with the names of the inhabitaunts of seuerall strange sortes of water foule eight, and seuenteene kindes more of land foul, although wee haue seen and eaten of many more, which for want of leasure there for the purpose coulde not bee pictured: and after wee are better furnished and stored vpon further discouery, with their strange beastes, fishe, trees, plants, and hearbes, they shall bee also published. There are also 'Parats', 'Faulcons', & 'Marlin haukes', which although |
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