Part 30

An Indian Webb, her Foot being very much swell’d and inflamed, asswaged the swelling, and took away the inflamation with our Garden or English Patience, the Roots roasted. f. Cataplas. Anno 1670. June 28.

To dissolve a Scirrhous Tumour.

An Indian dissolv’d a Scirrhous Tumour in the Arm and Hip, with a fomentation of Tobacco, applying afterwards the Herb stamp’d betwixt two stones.

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DESCRIPTION

OF AN

INDIAN SQUA.

Now (gentle Reader) having trespassed upon your patience a long while in the perusing of these rude Observations, I shall, to make you amends, present you by way of Divertisement, or Recreation, with a Coppy of Verses made sometime since upon the Picture of a young and handsome Gypsie, not improperly transferred upon the Indian SQUA, or Female Indian, trick’d up in all her bravery.

The Men are somewhat Horse Fac’d, and generally Faucious, i.e. without Beards; but the Women many of them {100} have very good Features; seldome without a Come to me, or Cos Amoris, in their Countenance; all of them black Eyed, having even short Teeth, and very white; their Hair black, thick and long, broad Breasted; handsome streight Bodies, and slender, considering their constant loose habit: Their limbs cleanly, straight, and of a convenient stature, generally, as plump as Partridges, and saving here and there one, of a modest deportment.

Their Garments are a pair of Sleeves of Deer, or Moose skin drest, and drawn with lines of several Colours into Asiatick Works, with Buskins of the same, a short Mantle of Trading Cloath, either Blew or Red, fastened with a knot under the Chin, and girt about the middle with a Zone, wrought with white and blew Beads into pretty Works; of these Beads they have Bracelets for their Neck and Arms, and Links to hang in their Ears, and a fair Table curiously made up with Beads likewise, to wear before their Breast; their Hair they Combe backward, and tye it up short with a Border, about two handfulls broad, {101} wrought in Works as the other with their Beads: But enough of this.

The POEM.

Whether White or Black be best Call your Senses to the quest; And your touch shall quickly tell The Black in softness doth excel, And in smoothness; but the Ear, What, can that a Colour hear? No, but ’tis your Black ones Wit That doth catch, and captive it. And if Slut and Fair be one, Sweet and Fair, there can be none: Nor can ought so please the tast As what’s brown and lovely drest: And who’ll say, that that is best To please ones Sense, displease the rest? {102} Maugre then all that can be sed In flattery of White and Red: Those flatterers themselves must say That darkness was before the Day: And such perfection here appears It neither Wind nor Sun-shine fears.

{103} Chronological TABLE

Of the most remarkable passages in that part of America, known to us by the name of NEW-ENGLAND.

Anno Dom. 1492. Christ. Columbus discovered America.

1516. The Voyage of Sir Thomas Pert, Vice Admiral of England, and Sir Sebastian Cabota to Brazile, &c.

1527. New-found-Land, discovered by the English.

1577. Sir Francis Drake began his Voyage about the World.

{104} 1585. Nova Albion discovered by Sir Francis Drake, and by him so Named.

1585. April 9. Sir Richard Greenevile was sent by Sir Walter Rawleigh with a Fleet of Seven Sail to Virginia, and was stiled the General of Virginia.

1586. Captain Thomas Candish, a Suffolk Gentleman, began his Voyage round about the World, with three Ships past the Streights of Magellan, burn’d and ransack’d in the entry of Chile, Peru, and New-Spain, near the great Island Callifornia in the South Sea; and returned to Plymouth with a precious Booty Anno Dom. 1588. September the 8th; being the third since Magellan that circuited the Earth.

1588. Sir Walter Rawleigh first discovered Virginia, by him so Named, in honour of our Virgin Queen.

1595. Sir Walter Rawleigh discovered Guiana.

{105} 1606. A Collony sent to Virginia.

1614. Bermudas Planted.

1618. The blazing Star; then Plymouth Plantation began in New-England.

1628. The Massachusets Colony Planted, and Salem the first Town therein Built.

1629. The first Church gathered in this Colony was at Salem; from which Year to this present Year, is 43 Years.