The Pilgrim Chronicles by Rod Gragg

Author:Rod Gragg [Gragg, Rod]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781621572787
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“The captain . . . saw also a serpent with three heads and four feet”

Perhaps most feared of all were the native peoples of America—the American Indians. As reported by William Bradford, Native Americans were believed to be “cruel, barbarous and most treacherous, being most furious in their rage and merciless where they overcome; not to be content only to kill and take away life, but delighting to torment men in the most bloody manner. . . .” When they landed in America, Bradford believed, the first Indians they encountered would be “readier to fill their sides full of arrows” than to greet them peaceably.

Fear of America’s Indian tribes was fueled by graphic and sometimes sensationalist reports from early explorers and colonists who had battled Native Americans in the New World. One of the most widely read accounts in England during the Pilgrims’ day was The Fourth Voyage Made to Virginia in the Yere 1587. It featured excerpts from the journal of John White, who was governor of the first English colony in North America—the unsuccessful, short-lived Roanoke settlement on the coast of North Carolina. White recounted how his assistant, George Howe, and several other English colonists were killed by Indians:

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