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THEY TOOK THE BRUNT of it, from Labrador to Cuba and Barbados, and after each clash or enigmatic incident they had no idea of what was coming at them next
And it was the same in the south from Panama, random, generally
violent
The first to deal with Europeans were a few clans and families in their
villages and fishing camps on the inlets and the bays and offshore
islands, up along the tidal rivers to the fall line as far inland as the
ships could go
The invasion deeper into the continent in significant numbers would
take awhile
The probes and explorations of the vast interior, like the Voyageurs
and Lewis and Clark, weren't often disruptive, allowed much quizzical
astonishment
On the Atlantic's other shore, poised and crowded, ready to leave
forever, to go themselves, millions chewed through ship crew gossip
spreading inland from the ports
Exotic tales and names sparked and sizzled through Europe, would
not go away
The new-names were rung up fast, Nova Scotia, New England, New
Orleans, New Berlin, New Bedford, New Amsterdam, New Holland,
New London, New Bern, New Ulm, New York, New Jersey,...