harbourwise

Updated: May 21, 2025

Those houses are near sixty feet in length, built harbourwise after their building. This place they count so holy as that but the priests and Kings dare come into them; nor the savages dare not go up the river in boats by it, but they solemnly cast some piece of copper, white beads, or pocones into the river for fear their Okee should be offended and revenged of them.

H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow - An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians