Writing in London after several years in the young Massachusetts Bay colony, William Wood describes its harbours, soil, climate, beasts, birds, fish and trees, the first towns and what an emigrant should bring. The second part portrays the Native peoples of the region, their customs and wars, and ends with a vocabulary of their language.
One of the liveliest first-hand accounts of Puritan New England, valuable to historians and a pleasure to read. Download the free EPUB.