In Jamestown it was the belief that great wealth was to be found. Plymouth colonists believed they were reenacting the exodus of Jews from Egypt and that North America represented the wilderness.
The answer has to be metaphor
<span>It’s impossible to paint Cooper as a racist or white supremacist as the book is drenched in Leatherstocking’s contempt for white farmers destroying the forest (‘their wantonness and folly’ Ch XIX; the ‘wasteful temper of my people’ Ch XX), the arbitrariness of white law, the uselessness of white learning – and the Bushes, representatives of white settlers, are depicted as violent, stupid, criminal lowlifes</span>
Reasonable, I think since the speaker is neither funny, angry or arrogant.
