[74]I.e., 9 inches.
[75]A generic term for liquor.
[76]The fact that bubonic plague had recently decimated a major portion of the indigenous population along the entire coast of New England was interpreted by the Pilgrims as divine intervention, and served as a convenient rationalization for English claims to the land.
[77]I.e., to the Wampanoag village where Massasoit was sachem.
[78]Actually members of a crew led by Capt. Thomas Dermer, on an expedition sponsored by Gorges.
[79]Thomas Hunt, captain of a ship in Capt. John Smith’s company.
[80](in Spain)
[81]leggings
[82]Ireland was little better known than New England in the early seventeenth century, and comparisons between Indians and Irishmen are frequent in the descriptive accounts of English explorers of the period.
[83]clowns