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Reuben Gold Thwaites. The Colonies, 1492-1750
The Colonies, 1492-1750
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
THE LAND AND THE NATIVE RACES
CHAPTER II
DISCOVERIES AND EARLY SETTLEMENTS. (1492-1606.)
CHAPTER III
COLONIZATION AND THE COLONISTS
CHAPTER IV
THE COLONIZATION OF THE SOUTH. (1606-1700.)
CHAPTER V
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTH IN 1700
CHAPTER VI
THE COLONIZATION OF NEW ENGLAND. (1620-1643)
CHAPTER VII
NEW ENGLAND FROM 1643 TO 1700
CHAPTER VIII
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN NEW ENGLAND IN 1700
CHAPTER IX
THE COLONIZATION OF THE MIDDLE COLONIES (1609-1700)
CHAPTER X
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES IN 1700
CHAPTER XI
OTHER ENGLISH NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES (1605-1750)
CHAPTER XII
THE COLONIZATION OF NEW FRANCE (1608-1750)
CHAPTER XIII
THE COLONIZATION OF GEORGIA (1732-1755)
CHAPTER XIV
THE CONTINENTAL COLONIES FROM 1700 TO 1750
INDEX
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Reuben Gold Thwaites
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The summer dress of the men was generally a short apron made of the pelt of a wild animal, the women being clothed in skins from neck to knees; in winter both sexes wrapped themselves in large robes of similar material. Indian oratory was highly ornate; it abounded in metaphors drawn from a minute observance of nature and from a picturesque mythology. |Religion.| A belief in the efficacy of religious observances was deep seated. Long fastings, penances, and sacrifices were frequent. The elements were peopled with spirits good and bad. Every animal, every plant, had its manitou, or incarnate spirit. Fancy ran riot in superstition. Even the dances practised by the aborigines had a certain religious significance, being pantomimes, and in some features resembling the mediæval miracle-plays of Europe. |Medicine.| The art of healing was tinctured with necromancy, although there was considerable virtue in their decoctions of barks, roots, and herbs, and their vapor-baths, which came in time to be borrowed from them by the whites.
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