The Lands Of Rhode Island As They Were Known To Caumounicus And Miantunnomu When Roger Williams Came In 1636 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Lands of Rhode Island, as They Were Known to Caunounicus and Miantunnomu When Roger Williams Came in 1636: An Indian Map of the Principal Locations Known to the Nahigansets and Elaborate Historical Notes The purpose Of the writer is first to set forth the characteristics of the Narragansetts; their Government, Laws, and customs; ties of consanguinity; marriage custom, social relations, domicils, furni ture, and housekeeping arrangements; hunting and trapping meth ods; sports, games and gambling; occupations; the moving about of their domicils; their bath caverns; their medical system, wholly incantation; business arrangements; their numerical system, relig ion, ranks, dress. War methods, deaths, burial, and many other mat tcrs. In attempting to set forth these characteristics the writer has rested wholly upon Roger Williams, who knew these Indians more thoroughly than any other man; but the writer has taken occasional illustrations from other writers; not only has he used the works of other men, but he has attempted to apply the rules Of reason to all researches. Further he has attempted to show the chronological acquisitions of these lands from the Indians, which placed the juris diction in the Colony, and ultimately in the State. This has been followed by setting forth the political results so far as towns are concerned, which followed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.