Summarize and discuss thomas harriot's impressions of the manners of the Algonquian people and his thoughts regarding how the English would be recieved by them.

Thomas Harriot was an Astronomer and mathematician. He travelled to the Roanoke Island.  

Explanation:

Thomas Harriot was an astronomer who encountered the Indian population at Roanoke Island where he has to leant Algonquian language. Later on he has published his voyage on entitled by "A Briefed and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia".  

There, Harriot relate the nature and manner of the people. His perception towards Algonquian people was biased. He wrote that "in respect of us a people poorer, and for wants of skill and judgement".  

He wrote that those people were poor and have loose clothed and their skin was dark and dull. Their towns were so small. They walled their house with the bark of trees.