and our enterprise should like lambes yeeld themselves, glad
of our company, giveing vs houses land, and liveings for a
trifle, Digitus dei est hic, and some great good is meant
toward this people: some few Indians are here to stay by vs
till next yeare, and then the land is wholy to be ours alone.
The natives of pson be very pper and tall men, by nature
swarthy, but much more by art, painting themselves with
colours in oile a darke read, especially about the head, which
they doe to keep away the gnats, wherein I confesse there is
more ease then honesty; as for their faces they vse sometimes
other colours, as blew from the nose downeward, and read
vpward, and sometimes contrary wise with great variety, and
in gastly manner, they have noe bearde till they be very old,
but insteed thereof sometimes draw long lines with colours
from the sides of their mouth to their eares, they weare their
diuersly some haveing it cut all short, one halfe of the head,
and long on the other; others have it all long, but generally
they weare all a like at the left eare, and sometimes at both
eares which they fold vp with a string of wampampeake or
roanoake about it: some of their Caucorouses as they terme
them, or great men weare the forme of a fish of Copper in
their foreheads; they all weare beade about their neckes, men
and women, with otherwhiles a haukes bill or the talents of
an eagles or the teeth of beasts, or sometimes a pare of great
eagles wings linked together and much more of the like;
their apparell is deere skins and other furrs, which they weare
loose like mantles, vnder which all their women, and those
which are come to mans stature weare peizomata of skins,
which keep them decently covered from all offence of sharpe
eies, all the rest are naked, and sometimes the men of the
younger sort weare nothing at all; their weapons are a bow
and bundle of arrowes, an ell long, feathered with turkies