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D.

Dagon, 32, _n._

Davis, Captain John, 104, 118, _n._

Deaconess, 323.

Deacons, 322.

Deane, Charles: cited, 30, 56; accuracy of, 56.

_Decameron_, 94.

De Costa, B. F.: quoted, 92-4; referred to, 100.

Deer: skins of, 135, 142-3, 202; killed by Indians, 162; followed by scent, 166; kinds of, 200-2; preyed on by wolves, 204, 208; and luzerans, 206.

Deer-traps, 202.

Deer Island, 155, _n._, 204, _n._

Delilah, 281.

Demas, part of, 302, _n._

Demophoön, 273.

Dermer, Captain Thomas: redeems captives, 131, _n._; quoted concerning pestilence of 1616, 133, _n._

Devil, the: estimation of among Indians, 139, _n._, 150, _n._, 165, 167; rules the Powows, 178.

Dexter, Rev. H. M., 244, _n._

Diogenes, 178; tub of, 286.

Dodge, General, cited, 169, _n._, 174, _n._

“Doe, the barren,” 94, 264-6, 272-7.

Dog-fish, 223, _n._

_Don Quixote_, 94, 272, 286.

Dorchester, Lord, 53.

Dorset, Earl of, 60.

Dover, N. H., Hiltons at, 30.

Downing, Emanuel: before Privy Council, 51; account of, 52; instructed to find evidence against Morton, 88; on humming-bird, 198, _n._

Drails, 223.

Drunkenness, Indian tendency to, 174.

Ducks: kinds of, 190; preyed on by luzeran, 206, _n._

Dudley, Governor Thomas, 43, 80, 90; cited, 4, 46.

Duxbury, 84.

E.

Eacus, 288, 293, 294, 309.

Eager, Pastor Master. (_See_ Skelton.)

East Indies, 239.

Edmunds, Sir Thomas, 60.

Eels, 224.

Egypt, 240.

Elder-tree, the, 186.

Elders of church, 313, 322.

Elephants, their supposed religion, 141, _n._

Elias house, 310.

Eliot, Dr. John, 326, _n._

Eliot, John, quoted, 124, 129, _n._

Elk, 200, _n._

Ellis, Rev. Dr. G. E., quoted, 145, _n._

Elm, the, 183.

_En animia_, 123.

Endicott, John: arrival of, at Salem, 31; visits Mt. Wollaston, 32; occupies the Gorges grant, 34; his instructions, 38, 40, 45; meets “old planters,” 39, 306; attempts to reärrest Morton, 43; derided by Morton, 45; mutilates royal standard, 66; issues warrant to arrest Morton, 86; governor, 88; libelled in _New Canaan_, 88, 304; called Littleworth, 220, 298-9, 304, 306, 308, 318; Morton’s animosity to, 220, _n._; cured of a wife, 298, _n._; sends settlers to Charlestown, 300, _n._; at Salem, 303-7; and the charter case, 305; fraud imputed to, 308; punishes Ratcliff, 316; second marriage of, 330, _n._

Epictetus, 312, _n._

Episcopalians: take up Morton’s cause, 92; in early Massachusetts, 95, 218, _n._

Erocoise, lake of, 78, 234-7, 240, 241. (_See_ Champlain.)

Esculapius, 278.

Executions. (_See_ Hanging.)

Exercising in church, by lay members, 262, _n._, 322-30.

F.

Faircloath, Innocence (_See_ Ratcliff.)

Fairfax, Lord, 83.

Falcons and falconry, 6, 196.

Falkland, Lord, 83.

Falstaff, 278, _n._

Faustus, Dr., 319.

Fire-arms: supplied to Indians, 20, 95; trade in forbidden, 21; in hands of Indians in 1628, 25.

Firing the country. (_See_ Burning.)

Fish, poisonous in the tropics, 116, _n._; kinds of in New England, 221-8.

Fisheries, vessels engaged in, 221.

Fitcher: a partner of Wollaston, 4; left in charge at Mt. Wollaston and expelled by Morton, 13.

Finch, Sir John, 35.

Flora, patroness of May-day, 19, 281.

Flounders, 226.

Flowers in New England, 228.

Footmen, running, 329.

Force’s _Tracts_, 99.

Foxes, 206-8.

Fox-skins, value of, 205, _n._, 207, _n._

Franchise, the, in Massachusetts, 331, _n._

Freeles, 227.

French authority, on Indians’ senses, 166.

Frenchmen, captured, among Indians, 131, _n._

“Froth, Nick and,” 328, _n._

Fuller, Dr. Samuel: dies of pestilence, 133, _n._; supposed to be alluded to as Eacus, 288, 291, _n._, 309; note on, 297; at Salem, 298.

Furmety, 163, _n._; 296.

Furs: profit of trade in, 22, 32; regulation of trade in, 39; Indian use of, 141-4; prices of, 205, _n._, 207, _n._, 209. (_See_ Beaver, Deer, Bear.)

G.

Galena, found in Woburn, 219, _n._

Ganymede, 279.

Gardiner, Sir Christopher: before Privy Council, 50, 86; his prefatory verses to _New English Canaan_, 112; on descent of Indians, 128; intercedes for Ratcliff, 320; note on, 338; adventures of, 338-42; sonnet by, 341.

Geese: descriptions of, 189-90; preyed on by luzeran, 206, _n._

Gellius, Aulus, quoted, 312, _n._

Gentry, created and degraded by Winthrop, 313.

Gerard’s _Herbal_, referred to, 185.

Ghent, 236.

Gibbons, Major Edward, 90-1.

_Gifte_, the, 44, 289.

Gloucester, Morton at, 86.

Golgotha, a new-found, 133.

Goodman, John: adventure of, with a wolf, 208, _n._; hears lions roar, 214, _n._

Gookin, Daniel, quoted, 160, 174.

Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 2, 3, 36, 47, 95; procures issues of proclamation on fire-arms, 21; his curiosity as to New England, 32; Morton ingratiates himself with, 36; in correspondence with Morton, 41, 47; intrigues against Massachusetts, 49; failure in, 53; works through Court influences, 54; renews complaints against Massachusetts, 56; shapes Laud’s policy to New England, 58; his plan, 58; to be governor-general, 59; his influence with Lords Commissioners, 60; represents “thorough” in New England, 60, 74; thought to be on the New England coast in 1635, 66; his plans in 1635, 67; circumvents Winslow, 68; grantee of Maine from Council for New England, 71; appointed by King, governor-general, 71; failure of, caused by want of money, 72; age of, 75, _n._; death of Mason fatal to plans of, 76; publication of _New Canaan_ not agreeable to, 80; pretends to be friendly to Massachusetts, 80; “casheers” Morton, 80; grants charter to Acomenticus, 81; career of, 119, _n._; eulogized, 189; Sir C. Gardiner, an agent of, 338, _n._

Gorges, John: succeeds to R. Gorges’s grant, 33; deeds land to Brereton and Oldham, 34, 40.

Gorges, Lord, 71.

Gorges, Captain Robert, 2, 33, 143, 162; arrives in Boston Bay, 3; extent of his grant, 3; returns to England, 4; validity of grant to, denied, 34; arrests Weston, 257, _n._

Goshawks, 197.

Gover, Anna, 298.

Grant, John, 62.

Grapes in New England, 186.

Gray, Professor Asa, 182, 188.

Greek, supposed resemblance of Indian words to, 123, 126.

Greene, Charles, 99-101.

Greene, Richard, in charge of Wessagusset settlement, 7.

Greenland, excessive cold of, 118.

Grouse in New England, 194, _n._

H.

“Habbe or nabbe,” 335.

Hacche, Roger atte, 300, _n._

Hake, 226.

Hale, Robert, 319, _n._

Halibut, 225.

_Hame_, 124.

Hamilton, Marquis of, 70.

Hampden, John, 83.

_Handmaid_, the, Morton’s voyage in, 45, 342-5.

Hanging: the Weymouth, 217, 249-52; early in Massachusetts, 217, _n._; in Virginia, 342.

Hannibal, 263.

Hares, 204.

Harris, Rev. Thaddeus Mason, 101, _n._

Harvard University: Library bulletin referred to, 99-100; students at, whipped, 319, _n._

Hawks and falcons in New England, 195-7.

“Hawk and buzzard,” 336.

Hawthorn-trees, 186.

Heath-hen, 194, _n._

Hebrew tribes, 310; origin of Indians traced to, 129, _n._

Hedgehogs, 211.

Hemlock-trees, 185, _n._

Hemp in New England, 187, 202, 231.

Herbs of New England, 188, 228.

Herons, 192.

Herring, 224.

Hickory, 183, _n._

Higginson, Rev. F., quoted, 213, _n._, 221, _n._, 232, _n._, 300, _n._

Higginson, T. W., quoted, 312, _n._

Hiltons, the: at Piscataqua, 23; contribute to Morton’s arrest, 30.

“Hippeus pine-tree horse,” 284.

Holbein, Hans, 253, _n._

Holland, 70, 288.

Hollis, Sir William, 253, _n._

Horace, quoted, 119.

Horeb, the calf of, 278.

Horse-mackerel, 223, _n._

Howes, Edward, 317, _n._

Howes, Edward, Jr., 334, _n._

_Hudibras_, 96, 251, _n._, 339, _n._

Hudson, Hendrick, voyages and fate of, 118, _n._

Hudson, the, 236, _n._, 238.

Hull, so called in 1628, 24, 337, _n._

Hume, David, on royal proclamations, 26.

Humfrey, John: before Privy Council, 51; “an imposterous knave,” 62, 64; goes to New England, 64; Gorges refers to patience of, 80.

Humming-bird, 102, _n._, 198.

Hunt, Captain Thomas, 244, _n._

Hutchinson, Mrs. Ann, 81, 323, _n._

Hyde, Sir Nicholas, 35.

Hydra, 286, 287, 292, 293.