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Title Native Housing
Origtitle Indian Village of Pomeiooc
Caption An inset showing native lodgings in the town of Pomeiooc.
Source virtualjamestown.org
Date 1585
URL http://www.virtualjamestown.org/images/white_debry_html/white31.html
Creator John White
Type Watercolor
Copyright British Museum
Origin Internet
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Additional Notes

On page 750 of the Harriot Text (Part 1) section of the Hakluyt text, "faire houses" refers to houses in English cities such as the gentlemen adventurers were accustomed to and for which they wished while in the New World, while on page 760 of the same text the term refers to the houses of a sort of heaven as described by one of the Algonquians.