EGO?

“Thus God indueth thise savage people with sufficient reason to make thinges necessarie to serve their turnes.”

-First Hand Accounts of Virginia, 1575-1705

How can these people be savage when they are making complicated boats, have unique fishing techniques, etc?

It is quite clear that these English people think highly of themselves. Even when writing about the complicated and very successful techniques for fishing, the writer talks down the Native Peoples.

When the English were starving and struggling during their first years it seems funny that these “savages” were able to survive so well.

Although this writing seems to compliment the Indian techniques, it has underlying quotes like above that completely belittle them at the same time.