And now [1608], the winter approaching, the rivers became so covered with swans, geese, ducks, and cranes, that we daily feasted with good bread, Virginia peas, pumpkins, and putchamins, fish, fowl, and divers sorts of wild beasts as fat as we could eat... The True Story of Captain John Smith - Página 167por Katharine Pearson Woods - 1901 - 382 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1877 - 446 páginas
...that we daily feasted with good bread, Virginia peas, pumpkins and putchamins,2 fish, fowl, and divers sorts of wild beasts as fat as we could eat them : so that none of our tuftaffatty humorists 8 desired to go for England. But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1881 - 324 páginas
...we daily feasted with good bread, Virginia peas, pumpions, and putchamins, fish, fowls, and divers sorts of wild beasts as fat as we could eat them, so that none of our Tuftaffaty humorists desired to go to England." While the Chickahominy expedition was preparing, Smith... | |
| John Smith - 1884 - 1150 páginas
...cranes, that we daily feasted with good bread, Virginia pease, pumpions, andputchamins; fish, fowle, and diverse sorts of wild beasts as fat as we could eat them : so that none of our Tuftaffaty humorists desired to goe for England. [1607-8] Tragedie. SomeidleexceptionsbeingmuttcredagainstCaptaine... | |
| 1898 - 346 páginas
...ducks, and cranes, that we daily feasted with good bread, Virginia peas, pumpkins, fish fowl, and divers sorts of wild beasts as fat as we could eat them; so that none of our tuftaffatty humorists [talkative people] desired to go to England. [But fault being found with Captain... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1904 - 512 páginas
...we daily feasted with good bread, Virginia peas, pumpions, and putchamins, fish, fowls, and divers sorts of wild beasts as fat as we could eat them, so that none of our Tuftaffaty humorists desired to go to England." While the Chickahominy expedition was preparing, Smith... | |
| Arthur Granville Bradley - 1905 - 260 páginas
...was much abundance : "We feasted daily with good bread, Virginia peas, pumpkins, persimmons, fish, and diverse sorts of wild beasts as fat as we could eat them, so that none of our Tuftaffaty humourists desired to go for England." As Smith was the only man who had shown any enterprise... | |
| Lyon Gardiner Tyler - 1907 - 510 páginas
...cranes, that we daily feasted with good bread, Virginia pease, pumpions, and putchamins, fish, fowle, and diverse sorts of wild beasts as fat as we could eat them : so that none of our Tuftaffaty 1 humorists desired to goe for England. But our comedies never endured long without a Tragedie.... | |
| Giles Milton - 2001 - 372 páginas
...that we daily feasted with good bread, Virginia pease, pumpions and putchamins, fish, fowle and divers sorts of wild beasts as fat as we could eat them; so that none but our Tuftaffaty humourists [cranks] desired to goe for England." As Christmas approached, the colonists... | |
| David W. Johnston - 2003 - 244 páginas
...duckes, and cranes, that we daily feasted with good bread, pease, pumpions, and putchamins, fish, fowle, and diverse sorts of wild beasts as fat as we could eat them" (r$o).31 The Reverend Alexander Whitaker (1585-1617) gave an interesting account of the countryside... | |
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