William Bradford, Relation or Journal of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation Settled at Plymouth in New England (1622)
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Date
1622
Author
Book title
Relation Or Iournall of the beginning and proceedings of the English Plantation setled at Plimoth in New England, by certaine English Aduenturers both Merchants and others. With their difficult passage, their safe ariuall, their ioyfull building of, and comfortable planting themselues in the now well defended Towne of New Plimoth
Publication place
London
Publisher
John Bellamie
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
travel
Summary
A few native words for fish and animals
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: ... we found also a great fish, called a Grampus dead on the sands, they in the Shallop found two of them also in the bottome of the bay, dead in like sort, they were cast vp at high water, and could not get off for the frost and ice; they were some fiue or sixe paces long, and about two inches thicke of fat, and fleshed like a Swine, they would haue yeelded a great deale of oyle, if there had beene time and meanes to haue taken it (p. 16)
Thither we came about 3. a clock after noone· the Inhabitants entertaining vs with ioy, in the best manner they could, giving vs a kinde of bread called by them Maixium (p. 42)
One of the Savages had shot a Shad in the water, and a small Squirrill as big as a Rat, called a Neuxis, the one halfe of either he gaue vs, and after went to the wire to fish. (p. 47)
sample: ... we found also a great fish, called a Grampus dead on the sands, they in the Shallop found two of them also in the bottome of the bay, dead in like sort, they were cast vp at high water, and could not get off for the frost and ice; they were some fiue or sixe paces long, and about two inches thicke of fat, and fleshed like a Swine, they would haue yeelded a great deale of oyle, if there had beene time and meanes to haue taken it (p. 16)
Thither we came about 3. a clock after noone· the Inhabitants entertaining vs with ioy, in the best manner they could, giving vs a kinde of bread called by them Maixium (p. 42)
One of the Savages had shot a Shad in the water, and a small Squirrill as big as a Rat, called a Neuxis, the one halfe of either he gaue vs, and after went to the wire to fish. (p. 47)
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20074
