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The town of Secotan in Virginia, where "the people live happily together withoutenvy or greed." De Bry's engraving, following John White's painting, artificiallyreduces the number and size of buildings and compresses the many activities andfeatures of village life here-from fields of corn and squash and pumpkins, topatches of tobacco and sunflowers; from a firelit nighttime dance ceremony nearthe bottom of the illustration, to hunting in the cleared and canopied forest at theupper left. The accompanying text describes such villages as usually containingfrom ten to thirty houses, ranging in size from about forty feet long and twentyfeet wide to roughly seventy-five feet long and thirty-five feet wide.