 | Local history - 1835 - 484 pages
...Williams (Key 28,) observes : " In the Narragansett country, (which are the chief people in the land,) a man shall come to many towns, some bigger, some lesser ; it may be a dozen in twenty miles travel." The ancient Indians, were like the present Indians of the West; a nation of hunters... | |
 | Local history - 1835 - 350 pages
...Williams (Key 28,) observes: " In the Narragansett countrj', (which are the chief people in the land,) a man shall come to many towns, some bigger, some lesser; it may be a dozen in twenty miles travel." 6 They were not so far advanced in civilization, as the more Southerly Indians... | |
 | Sidney Smith Rider - Indians of North America - 1904 - 336 pages
...75). METAUBSCOT. (17) Was an Indian village in Warwick. Concerning such villages Roger Williams says: "In the Narragansett country a man shall come to many...towns, some bigger, some lesser ; it may be a dozen in twenty miles travel" (Indian Key, 33). MOSKITt'ASH. (15) It is the name now given to a brook, or small... | |
 | Wilkins Updike - Narragansett (R.I.) - 1907 - 300 pages
...Roger Williams observes:. |. "In the N:\rrngnnsett Country, (which are the chief people in the land,) a man shall come to many towns, some bigger, some lesser; it may be a dozen in twenty miles travel." In the Indian war of 1675-6, the Narragansetts were destroyed or dispersed, excepting... | |
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... ravages of disease, and the defection of their tributaries, must have greatly diminished their strength, even before the war of 1676, and this accounts for the difference in the statements. Roger Williams (Key 28,) observes : " In the Narragansett... 