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Title: New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Commission, Jamestown Exposition, 1907
Subjects: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) New York (State)–Exhibitions
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : J.B. Lyon Co.
Contributing Library: Virginia Beach Public Library
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down a stick betwixt the divisionsof corn. Till night neither he nor they did either eat or drink, andthen they feasted merrily, with the best provisions they could make. Three days they used this ceremony, the meaning whereof theytold him was to know if he intended them well or no. The circle ofmeal signified their country, the circles of corn the bounds of thesea, and the sticks his country. They imagined the world to be flatand round, like a trencher, and they in the midst. After this theybrought him a bag of gunpowder, which they carefully preservedtill the next spring, to plant as they did their corn, because theywould be acquainted with the nature of that seed. Opicahapam, the Kings brother, invited him to his house,where with as many platters of bread, fowl, and wild beasts, as didenviron him, he bid him welcome; but not any of them would eat a bitwith him, but put up all the remainder in baskets. At his return toOpechancanoughs, all the Kings women, and their children, flocked
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