Thomas Harriot: the Analysis

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Thomas Harriot: The Analysis Thomas Harriot is an Oxford University Graduate. He had entered Sir Walter Ralegh’s employment in the early 1580s. He might have written different notebooks but only descriptive report named A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia was found (Harriot, 80). In this report Harriot tries to describe how Native American lives, their proportion and their weaponry system and how English men easily overcame them and rule over them. As it is stated on the report, “[In] respect of troubling our inhabiting and planting…..inhabit with them.” (Harriot, 81). This means that the Native Americans have only one thing with them i.e. their land which if anyone tries to take away from them, they will not fear to fight with the invaders and will fight till death as they love their land dearly. This reminds me of my friend’s dog. His name was Tiger. My friend loves him so much and the dog loves him too. One day while we guys were hanging at his place, the tiger was there too, my another friend, Kamal hit Satish at his back, it was just for fun, but tiger attacked Kamal so quickly that no one could stop him and he bit him. We had to take Kamal to the nearest Clinic and had some stitches as his hand was bleeding. As soon as we saw tiger biting him, Satish, me and some other friends tried to stop him. It took almost a minute to stop him. Tiger was so angry to see Kamal hitting Santosh but he wasn’t aware that they were friends and they were just playing. Even a dog loves his master so much that it can’t see anyone hurting its master. Harriot also describes that how English troopers felt easy to colonize native Americans as they were very less in number in a town which has houses from ten to twelve and some twenty and the maximum houses they saw at town was thirty. This is another weakness that Harriot point out. As they are very few

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