This essay examines the anatomical language that appears in 16^th- and 17^th-century English travel narratives, which authors used to portray efforts to colonize North America as a series of encounters between an American continental body and the English nation. Imagery related to the digestive tract marked struggling or failed efforts, while reproductive and marital imagery described successful ventures or encouraged new ones. The imprecision of early modern anatomical terms left them versatile enough to appear in relation to both digestive and reproductive images, allowing English observers contrasting colonial projects to provide lessons about proper modes of colonization. Anatomical language thus provided English authors with a mechanism for representing the changing nature of England’s encounter with the American continental body, redirecting anxieties about the dangers America posed into confidence about the continent’s productive potential, and England’s future on its lands.

本文研究了^第16和^第17出现的解剖语言百年的英国旅行故事，作者曾经将其刻画为在北美殖民地的努力，这是美国大陆与英国之间的一系列相遇。与消化道相关的图像表示奋斗或失败的努力，而生殖和婚姻图像则表示成功的冒险或鼓励新的冒险。早期现代解剖学术语的不精确性使它们具有足够的通用性，可以在消化图像和生殖图像方面出现，从而使英国观察家可以对比殖民地计划，以提供有关正确殖民模式的经验教训。因此，解剖语言为英语作者提供了一种机制，可以代表英格兰与美洲大陆的遭遇的不断变化的性质，