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Fragment D. 1613. ENGLISH DOMESTICATED BOARS Frighten Indians
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Fragment D. 1613.
ENGLISH DOMESTICATED BOARS
Frighten Indians

[Source: Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations Of The World ...
(London, 1613), 639.]

Here, after condensing two passages from Smith's Map of Virginia (pp. 25,
29), Purchas supplies a story that does not appear elsewhere. Speaking of the
Indians' adoration of "all things that are able to hurt them," he adds.

Yea, Captaine Smith told mee, that they seeing one of the English
Bores [boars] in the way, were stricken with awfull feare, because he
brisled up himself and gnashed his teeth, and tooke him for the God
of the Swine, which was offended with them.