 | Giles John Swan - 1918 - 264 pages
...oak-bark house — "great quantities of maize, or Indian corn, and beans," and near the house lay " enough to load three ships, besides what was growing in the fields." Hudson at The chief served Hudson with food in red wooden bowls. He sent men out to shoot game, and... | |
 | David Ives Bushnell (Jr.) - 1919 - 142 pages
...oak-bark, and circular in shape, so that it had the appearance of being built with an arched roof. It contained a great quantity of maize or Indian corn...three ships, besides what was growing in the fields. On our coming into the house, two mats were spread out to sit upon, and immediately some food was served... | |
 | Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy - 1921 - 320 pages
...built, with an arched roof. It contained a great quantity of maize or Indian corn, and beans of the last year's growth, and there lay near the house,...the purpose of drying, enough to load three ships.' (Hudson the Navigalor, Hakluyt Society, p. 161). But there may easily be a different interpretation.... | |
 | 1841 - 508 pages
...being built with an arched roof. It contained a great quantity of maize or Indian corn and beans of the last year's growth, and there lay near the house for...three ships, besides what was growing in the fields. On our coming into the house, two mats were spread out to sit upon, and immediately some food was served... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1893 - 778 pages
...southeastern New York, and along the Hudson, there does not seem to have been any lack of corn. Hudson, AD 1609, states that in latitude 42° 18', near where...three ships, besides what was growing in the fields." | The work of tilling the ground was left to the women, who had the assistance of the old men and the... | |
 | 1910 - 688 pages
...giving the latitude1 as 42° 18', Hudson wrote : I saw there a house well constructed of oak bark ... a great quantity of maize or Indian corn and beans...three ships, besides what was growing in the fields. In the journal of Robert Juet,3 mate on the Half Moon, is a statement under date of September 4, 1609,... | |
 | Milton Martin Klein - 2001 - 1102 pages
...the appearance of having a vaulted ceiling. It contained a great quantity of maize, and beans of the last year's growth, and there lay near the house for...three ships, besides what was growing in the fields. On our coming near the house, two mats were spread out to sit upon, and immediately some food was served... | |
 | Eric G. Bolen - 1998 - 468 pages
...central New York, for example, Henry Hudson (?-I61 1) saw a stockpile of Indian-grown crops that was "enough to load three ships, besides what was growing in the fields." Other references also mention large quantities of corn grown by Indians: 5,652,640 liters (160,000... | |
 | Betsy McCully - 2007 - 204 pages
...use. An account by Henry Hudson describes an Indian house "which contained a great quantity of maize, and beans of last year's growth, and there lay near...three ships, besides what was growing in the fields." 26 According to evidence from archaeological sites, the Lenapes grew a northern variety of corn known... | |
 | Corey Sandler - 2008 - 452 pages
...men and 17 women; these I saw there in a house well constructed of oak bark, and circular in shape. There lay near the house for the purpose of drying,...three ships, besides what was growing in the fields. On our coming into the house, two mats were spread out to sit upon, and immediately some food was served... | |
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Indian corn, and beans of last year's growth, and there lay near the house for the purpose of drying, enough to load three ships, besides what was growing in the fields. On our coming into the house, two mats were spread out to sit upon, and... 
