PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD THIS WORLD IS NOT FOR EVERYONE1 “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY 1. What the book HAKLUYTUS POSTHUMUS, OR PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES amounts to is white geographical expansion as the unfolding of a Divine purpose and plan, a plan available only to white men; but not all whites, decidedly only Christian ones; but not all Christian whites, definitely only Protestant ones. To emphasize this point, here are some of the more blatantly offensive remarks by the racist Reverend Samuel Purchas: “These Savages are naturally great thieves.” “Civility is not the way to win Savages.” “[S]cour the country of the unneighborly malicious naturals.” HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:REVEREND SAMUEL PURCHAS PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD CAPE COD: It is remarkable that there is not in English any PEOPLE OF adequate or correct account of the French exploration of what is CAPE COD now the coast of New England, between 1604 and 1608, though it is conceded that they then made the first permanent European settlement on the continent of North America north of St. ÆSOP Augustine. If the lions had been the painters it would have been XENOPHANES otherwise. This omission is probably to be accounted for partly by the fact that the early edition of Champlain’s “Voyages” had CHAMPLAIN not been consulted for this purpose. This contains by far the most particular, and, I think, the most interesting chapter of what we may call the Ante-Pilgrim history of New England, extending to one hundred and sixty pages quarto; but appears to be unknown WEBSTER equally to the historian and the orator on Plymouth Rock. Bancroft BANCROFT does not mention Champlain at all among the authorities for De Monts’ expedition, nor does he say that he ever visited the coast of New England. Though he bore the title of pilot to De Monts, he was, in another sense, the leading spirit, as well as the historian of the expedition. Holmes, Hildreth, and Barry, and BARRY apparently all our historians who mention Champlain, refer to the edition of 1632, in which all the separate charts of our harbors, &c., and about one half the narrative, are omitted; for the author explored so many lands afterward that he could afford to forget a part of what he had done. Hildreth, speaking of De Monts’s HILDRETH expedition, says that “he looked into the Penobscot [in 1605], which Pring had discovered two years before,” saying nothing PRING about Champlain’s extensive exploration of it for De Monts in 1604 (Holmes says 1608, and refers to Purchas); also that he followed HOLMES in the track of Pring along the coast “to Cape Cod, which he PURCHAS called Malabarre.” (Haliburton had made the same statement before HALIBURTON him in 1829. He called it Cap Blanc, and Malle Barre (the Bad Bar) was the name given to a harbor on the east side of the Cape.) Pring says nothing about a river there. Belknap says that Weymouth BELKNAP discovered it in 1605. Sir F. Gorges says, in his narration (Maine WEYMOUTH Hist. Coll., Vol. II. p. 19), 1658, that Pring in 1606 “made a GORGES perfect discovery of all the rivers and harbors.” This is the most I can find. Bancroft makes Champlain to have discovered more western rivers in Maine, not naming the Penobscot; he, however, must have been the discoverer of distances on this river (see Belknap, p. 147). Pring was absent from England only about six months, and sailed by this part of Cape Cod (Malebarre) because it yielded no sassafras, while the French, who probably had not heard of Pring, were patiently for years exploring the coast in search of a place of settlement, sounding and surveying its harbors. HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:REVEREND SAMUEL PURCHAS PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1575 By about this year Gabriel Archer had been born in Mountnessing, Essexto John Archer and Eleanor Frewin Archer. He would be educated at Cambridge University. It was probably in about this year that Samuel Purchas was born at Thaxted in Essex (we know he was a near- contemporary of the Reverend Richard Hakluyt and that he would graduate at St John’s College of Cambridge University, in 1600). Francis Bacon graduated from Trinity College of Cambridge University. TRINITY COLLEGE HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:REVEREND SAMUEL PURCHAS PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1600 Phineas Fletcher, a scholar from the Westminster School of Eton in Buckinghamshire, matriculated at King’s College of Cambridge University. KING’S COLLEGE ST JOHN’S HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:REVEREND SAMUEL PURCHAS PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD Samuel Purchas graduated at St John’s College of Cambridge University (later he would become a B.D.). NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of Cape Cod: Reverend Samuel Purchas HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:REVEREND SAMUEL PURCHAS PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1604 Having been rejected with rudeness by the court of King James I of England, Michael Drayton found an outlet for his bitterness in an unfortunate satire, THE OWLE (entered at Stationers’ Hall in February). The “owle,” keeping a careful eye on all the other birds, amused no-one. In this year he would also create a misbegotten 2 scriptural narrative, MOYSES IN A MAP OF HIS MIRACLES, as an epic in heroic stanzas. Samuel Purchas was presented by King James I of England to the vicarage of St. Laurence and All Saints, Eastwood, Essex. The POETICALL ESSAYES OF ALEXANDER CRAIGE, SCOTO-BRITANE, by Alexander Craig of Rosecraig, imprinted by William White dwelling in Cow-lane neere Holborne Conduit and dedicated to King James I of England. William Alexander’s TRAGEDIE OF DARIUS was reprinted in London together with a 2d tragedy, CROESUS. Introduced by Argyll at the court of King James VI in Scotland, this playwright gained the favour of the monarch, whom he followed to England, where he was made one of the gentlemen-extraordinary of Prince Henry’s chamber. In this timeframe he wrote AURORA and also created a set of 8-lined stanzas on the familiar 3 theme of princely duty, intituled A PARÆNESIS TO PRINCE HENRY (as Sir William wrote of the River Forth of Scotland in this poetic source, Henry Thoreau would eventually be writing of the Merrimack River of New England). 2. 26 years later this would be revised into MOSES, HIS BIRTH AND MIRACLES. HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:REVEREND SAMUEL PURCHAS PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 3. Thoreau seems to have quoted from Sir William Alexander’s “A Parænesis to Prince Henry” on page 85 of A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. Professor E. Robert Sattelmeyer indicates on his page 119 that Thoreau had become familiar with this during his study in Alexander Chalmers, THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS, FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER; INCLUDING THE SERIES EDITED WITH PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, BY DR.SAMUEL JOHNSON: AND THE MOST APPROVED TRANSLATIONS. Although we do not have a record that Thoreau ever consulted that particular volume, Volume V, of this 21-volume set, PERUSE VOLUME V PARÆNSIS TO PRINCE HENRY I must acknowledge that I presently know only of a secondary source from which Thoreau might have accessed such materials, and have no greater evidence that Thoreau was familiar with any such secondary source. Thoreau might possibly have copied this extract from some secondary source such as pages 585/586 of the Reverend William Nimmo, Minister of Bothkennar’s HISTORY OF STIRLINGSHIRE. CORRECTED AND BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME BY THE REV. WILLIAM MACGREGOR STIRLING, MINISTER OF PORT (Re-issued in 1817 by John Fraser for Andrew Bean, Bookseller, Stirling; A. Constable & Co. Oliphant & Co. J. Ogle, J. Fairbairn, J. Anderson & Co. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh; Lumsden & Son, A. & J.M. Duncan, Brash and Reid, M. Ogle, W. & P. Jenkins, Glasgow; W. Reid, Leith; J. Rankine, Falkirk; and, J. Macisack, Alloa), for that secondary source reads as follows: A still earlier writer, Sir William Alexander 1st Earl of Stirling, was correct, when, in his “Parænesis, or Exhortation to Government,” addressed to the renowned Prince Henry, he says, “Forth, when she first doth from Benlowmond rinne, Is poore of waters, naked of renowne; But Carron, Allan, Teath and Devon in, Doth grow the greater still the further downe: Till that abounding both in power and fame, She long doth strive to give the sea her name.” The Romans, adopting, no doubt, the words of the natives, and fitting them to their own pronunciation, called this river “Bodotria.” Tacitus in Agricolam, c. 23. But what was Bodotria, and what was the pronunciation of the natives that suggested the name? To this question a Celtic scholar has favoured us with the following answer. “I have been induced to think that the Celts, in comparing this much finer river, the Teath, “the hot or boiling stream,” with the sluggish, moss-banked river which the Forth exhibits from Gartmore to Frew, called the latter Bao-shruth, “insignificant stream.” We observe that Mr P. MacFarlan translates Bath-shruth “smooth slow stream.” Gaelic Vocabulary, Edinburgh, 1815. A question still occurs, how came it to be called Forth? Phorth pronounced with the aspirates quiescent, becomes Port. Changing Ph into F, we have Forth; a name applicable to a river affording the means of navigation. E. Robert Sattelmeyer. THOREAU’S READING: A STUDY IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY WITH BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE. Princeton NJ: Princeton UP, 1988 LIST AS PREPARED IN 1988 HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:REVEREND SAMUEL PURCHAS PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD A WEEK: By the law of its birth never to become stagnant, for it has PEOPLE OF come out of the clouds, and down the sides of precipices worn in the A WEEK flood, through beaver-dams broke loose, not splitting but splicing and mending itself, until it found a breathing-place in this low land.