As other wild beasts are:
Some men are not so fierce, and yet
From mildnesse are they farre.
CHAP. XVIII.
Of the Sea.
| Wechêkum, } | The Sea. |
| Kítthan, } |
Paumpágussit, the Sea-God, or that name which they give that Deitie or Godhead which they conceive to be in the Sea.
Obs: Mishoòn, an Indian Boat, or Canow made of a Pine or Oake, or Chesnut-tree: I have seene a Native goe into the woods with his hatchet carrying onely a Basket of Corne with him, and stones to strike fire when he had felled his tree (being a Chesnut) he made him a little House or shed of the bark of it, he puts fire and followes the burning of it with fire, in the midst in many places: his corne he boyles and hath the Brook by him, and sometimes angles for a little fish: but so hee continues burning and hewing untill he hath within ten or twelve dayes (lying there at his worke alone) finished, and (getting hands,) lanched his Boate; with which afterward hee ventures out to fish in the Ocean.