We watered at the Canaries, we traded with the Salvages at Dominica; three weekes we spent in refreshing our selues amongst these west-India Isles; in Gwardalupa we found a bath so hot, as in it we boyled Porck as well as over the fire.
But finding plentis of Corns in the riuer of Chickahamania, where hundreds of Salvages in diuers places stood with baskets expecting his comming.
This done, seeing theSalvages superfluitie beginne to decrease (with some of his workmen) shipped himselfe in the Shallop to search the Country for trade.
For the dead man to cook and eat on his journey to the happy hunting grounds, which the salvages place in the room of heaven," said Hopkins sanctimoniously.
And does the barbarian fancy that two of his naked salvages count as one of our meanest, not to say our principal men!
Then if the salvages approach by land, from yon fair hill which Warren advises, our heavier guns will meet them half way, and our smaller metal mow them down at close quarters.
Let no more of the salvages into the stockade until we have settled with these.
Mayhap we shall come as far as the First Encounter, and make out whether those salvages whom Squanto calls the Nausets are still so dangerously disposed toward us.
Thou 'rt all in the right, and it behooves us to protect our lords from their own rash courage, just as it befits their courage to protect us against salvages and wild beasts.
We came among these salvages to convert them to the knowledge of God, not to slaughter them.
Nay, these salvagesare more treacherous than a quicksand.
T is one of the bloody salvages sworn to take all our lives!
They speak forsooth of making payment to these unbreeched salvages for the corn we are taking from this hole in the ground.
Nay, it needs not the marchpane thou madest so toilsomely to entertain these salvages to whom our ship-biscuit are a treat," and the elder woman smiled tenderly back into the glowing face so near her own.
But the Salvages say there is no channel, but that the shoales beginne from the maine at Pawmet to the ile of Nausit, and so extends beyond their knowledge into the sea.
Sometime after the Spirit descended again on that Woman, and she conceived a Daughter, from whom (as the Salvages say) were propagated these numerous People, which do occupy now one of the greatest parts of the Universe.
At your ships arrivall, the Salvages harvest was newly gathered, and we going to buy it, our owne not being halve sufficient for so great a number.
Why, Sir Christopher, these salvages laugh so seldom, that they ought to be encouraged when they begin.
So far as known, no other attempt had been made to find the chests of dollars until Mr. Knight decided to act on the information and explore the Salvages in passing.
Trinidad is a much more difficult island to explore than any of the Salvages group.
The destination of the Alerte was Trinidad, after all, and the visit to the Salvages was only an incident, so the search was abandoned after four days.
Dale and Brewster rendezvoused at the appointed place and "after divers encounter and skirmishes with the salvages gained a convenientt place for fortification where presently they did begin to builde a foarte.
In the massacre Causey "being cruelly wounded, and the salvagesabout him, with an axe did cleave one of their heads, whereby the rest fled and he escaped.
English officers forced her and all them with her to goe with them, or they would fire her house themselves, as the salvages did when they were gone.
Salvages bearing South; at 6, the Body of the Island bore South 1/2 West, distant about 5 leagues.
T is a masque of the ventures of Captain Cabot, look you, and Tom's the King of the salvages and makes all the long speeches.
I told him also the salvages advised mee my shipp was arrived to the Northwards, & promiss'd that I would come visit him againe in 15 days & would tell him farther.
I thought at first of somthing else, & that thesalvages had quarrel'd amongst themselves.
The salvages went to goe unto the familly that was ennemy unto my adopted father to make them offer of my presents, & in my name to invite them unto the feast of unity.
I invited the others to a feast; after which the salvages traded with us for their Beavors, & wee dismissed them all very well sattisfy'd.
Hee desired me afterwards that if the captain of the salvages of the river of new Severn came, that hee might see him by my means, which I promis'd to doe.
But this would have ruined our trade; therefore I resolved to stand firm in this occasion, becaus what wee now concluded upon with these Salvages touching comers would have ben a Rule for the future.
Wee put into Harbour to avoide the Danger of it, as also to take in fresh Water & some other Provisions at the Coast of the Indians called Esquimos, the most cruell of all the salvages when they meet an advantage to surprize Persons.
Wee shewed ourselves a Cannon-shott off & stayed as if wee had bensalvages that wonder'd to see anybody there building a House.
That was all he seemed to know; we could elicit no further information on the subject from him; but it was evident that the 'Alerte' was not the first yacht that had come to the Salvages in search of the hidden chests of dollars.
Consequently, when we sailed only three men knew whither we were bound, and I said nothing about the Salvages until we had been two days at sea, when I repeated the whole story to my companions after dinner.
He further said that the Salvageswere claimed by the Portuguese, and not by the Spanish.
That we failed to discover the treasure on the Salvages did not dishearten my companions in the least.
These Beasts are of the bignesse of a Cowe, their flesh being very good foode, their hides good lether, their fleeces very usefull, being a kinde of wolle as fine almost as the wolle of the Beaver, and the Salvages doe make garments thereof.
Acalles, the Canarian type of, apparent on the Salvages and Dezertas, 124.
Deucalion, its occurrence on the Salvages and Dezertas, 125.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "salvages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
