Title | : | The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I |
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Author | : | Henry Cabot Lodge |
Release | : | 1924-11-09 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Fiction & Literature, Books |
Size | : | 309966 |
Here more than two hundred of those grim Courtiers stood wondering at him [John Smith], as he had beene a monster; till Powhatan and his train had put themselves in their greatest braveries. Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by. On either hand did sit a young wench of 16 or 18 years, and along on each side the house, two rowes of men, and behind them as many women, with all their heads [4]and shoulders painted red; many of their heads bedecked with the white downe of Birds; but every one with something: and a great chain of white beads about their necks. |