William Wood "Woods New-England Prospect"

“These are a cruell bloody people, which were wont to come downe upon their poore neighbours with more than bruitish favagenesse, spoyling of their Corne, burning their houses, slaying men, ravishing women, yea very Caniballs they were, sometimes eating on a man one part aster another before his face, and while yet living; in so much that the very name of a Mowhack would strike the heart of a poore Abergenian dead, were there not hopes at hand of releefe from English to succour them: For these inhumane homicides confesse that they dare not meddle with a white faced man, accompanyed with his hot mouth'd weapon.”
This extract is from a book written by William Wood called “Woods New-England’s Prospect” Wood wrote this book as an account of what he experienced when he travelled to New-England. I chose this extract because of Wood’s description of the Indians, how they savagely murder other Indian’s destroying their homes and eating men that they have attacked. Wood also emphasises that the Indian’s wouldn’t cross the English men when they are armed with weapon’s, here in the text he refers to a gun as a “hot mouth’d weapon” referring to the barrel of the gun as the “hot mouth”. I think this is interesting because there are many different views of who the Indians were and what they were like, I think that this shows a different insight to the Indians way of life and its completely different to the perceptions which others may have had as they thought the Indians could civilised and turned into civilised human beings. However Wood’s description of the Indians could have been to keep the fear of outsiders attacking people within the village hence why they felt they had to fortify their village.