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Title: A guide-book to Norumbega and Vineland
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Shepard, Elizabeth G
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Publisher: Boston, Damrell & Upham
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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that he was visited by the Skraellings, and then these swarthy little Settlement of men, pointing to the sun as a sign of peace, visited by the came to pfaze and wonder and then sail awavSkraellings. ^ ^ around the promontory to the southwest. After a time the Skraellings came again, ap-pearing from around the southwestern promon-tory in large numbers. Thorfinn raised hisAvhite shield of peace and when they met theybegan to trade.They trade The Skraellino^s brought rich furs and skins with furs. ^ ^ which they bartered for red cloth. They wouldtake long strips of it and bind it around theirheads as a snood. When it grew scarce, it was cut into smallpieces, but the Skraellings would give as muchfor it as before. They also received products ofthe dairy which they greatly relished. In the midst of these transactions the bull ofThorfinns herd ran out from the woods, and,frightened, loudly roared. With howls of terror the Skraellings rushedto their boats and tumbling into them, rowedaway.
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NORUMBEGA AND VINELA^D. 27 Tliorfiiin was apprehensive that the Skrael- The Skraei- lings become lings would come in hostility the next time, hostile,and hardly more than three weeks later theyappeared in vast numbers, their paddles turnedfrom the sun, and uttering prolonged howds ofrage. They assailed the newcomers with a hot A battle ensues,shower of missiles sent from slings, and fasten-ing a large stone in the skin of an animal theyattached it to a long pole and hurled it amongthe Northmen. The Northmen w^ere muchalarmed and fled along the river, but near somerocks they made a bold stand and fought val-iently, so that a large number of the mob waskilled and but few of their own men perished. The Skraellings found a dead man with an axe laying beside him. One of their number picked up the axe and struck at a tree with it. One after another they tested it and thought it a treasure, and that it cut well. Then one of them struck at a stone and the axe broke, whereat they concluded it

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