AJ-107: Josselyn, Two Voyages to New-England (1638)

              96    7ofelyn's Account of
The
Butterfly is of feveral forts and larger than ours; So are
their Dragon-flyes. Glow-worms have here wings, there are
multitudes of them infomuch that in the dark evening when I
firft went into the Countrey I thought the whole Heavens had
been on fire, feeing fo many fparkles flying in the air:
about .Mount-Carmel, and the valley of Acree in the
Holy-land there be, abundance of them.
Thefe are taken
for Cantharides. Cantharides are green flyes by day, in the
night they pafs about like a flying Glow-worm with fire in
their tails.
I have finiffied now my relation of plants,
&c. I have taken force pains in recollecting of them to
memory, and fetting of them down for their benefit from whom
I may expel thanks; but I believe my [p. 123.] reward will
be according to Ben 7,jhnfons proverbs, Whiftle to a jade
and he will pay you with a fart, Claw 'a churl by the britch
and he will fhit in your fift.
The people that inhabited
this Countrey are judged to be of the Tartars called
Samonids that border upon Hofcovia, and are divided into
Tribes; thofe to the Eaft and North-eaft are called
Churc~hers and Tarenlines, and Monhegans. To the South are
the Peyuels and Xarraganfiels. Weftward ConneRiculs and
Howhacks. To the Northward Aberginians which confift of
Mallachufels, Wi~15azaps and Tarrentines. The Pocanokels
live to the Weftward of Plimouth. Not long before the
_Englz
1h came into
the Countrey, happened a great
mortality amongft them,
efpecially where the EnglzA
afterwards planted, the Eaft
and Northern parts were fore
fmitten with the Contagion;
firft by the plague,
afterwards when the Englijh came by
the