New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-11

Carter BROWN Library. svo. PIP 81 HouGhtnn,
This handsome volume begins with the account
~ Nerrazanos journey TO Massachusetts, Bay in
Gl24- and ends with Christopher Levetts story
81 his experiences az York and Portland In 1924.
The ten other voyages described range through
various years Of that hundred. and all are set
down in good plain terms with few or no agree
sble devices in language Il win not tel you
says Master Levett. writing OF the fair land of
Maine, that you may smell the cornhelds before
you see the Land neither must men thinke that
come doth grove naturally Tor on treesD nor
VIII the Deare come when they are called. or
stand stiu and locke one man until he shute
him. not knowing man from beast nor the
lsh leape into the kettle. nor on the drie Land.
Mother are they so plentiful that you may dipp
them up in baskets nor take Codd in nets TO
make a voyage, which is truer: then that
the fowles viii present themselves 10 you with
splits through them" In this spirit wrote the
other a6venturers and traders whose reports are
included in this volume; If now and again they
show some enthusiasm il is little enough in men
coming suddenly upon a country set with fine
timber, rich in wild fruits, nuts and "hoiesome
Earbes." inhabited by many profitable fur-bear-
ing animals, and upon waters packed with many
kinds OF delicious hsh. as well as huge tooth
some "LOpsters"
The thing that nest inpreSses the reader in
running through these narratives is the uni
fornly kind f-shion il which the American saw
ages received these first voyagers Of races which
In after years were practically TO eXterminate
them. one Of Verrazaro's sailors, going ashore
10 carry the 'salvages' some little gifts, was
thrown out OF his boat 10y the surf and shrieked
with fear when the red men ran 10 lift him from
the waves
our sailors in the boat, seeing great fire made
u. and their companion placed very near II, fuli
O. o. -
ir- IS soon IS ne had recovered his strength after
- So v-f-b -Fe-r7 SHOWING nv signs that he
wished 10 return aboard, they Rugged him with
then leaving him. that he might feel more secure,
tlrE withdrew 10 little hill. from which lhey
watched him until he was safe IL the boat
Sailing Up 10 Narragansett Bay, the F1oren-
tire captain became almost poetic in his de-
serrtlon OF the remarkably good looking and
courteous natives Of that region He dwelt
especially on their generosity-"giving away
whichever they have" il was only in the Ind
.aus on Cape Cod that the vOyager found signs
q uarbarisn. Gosnold's men on BuzZard's Bay
ia 1902 found the savages most helpful, polite
and scrupulous IN their dealing-quite models to
Europeans in that they were exceeding court
-r-s gentle OF disposition and well conditioned"
George Waymouths company forcibly took five
Indians back 10 England with them, and the
chrouicler OF the voyage paints them as admi-
raole fellows so kinde,' above all, as if you
give auything 70 one Of them. he viii distribute
part 20 every one OF the rest" Amiable. how
ever. as most Of these adventures are ID their
comments on the original owners Of the country,
il is only Captain John Smith who makes a
brief reference 10 the abuses which have beene
Offered the poore SaIVages." This collection OF
narratives is beautifully printed. Smiths map
OF New England serves as z frontispiece, and
DR. Wi1ship has furnished careful notes