SMITH'S  NEW ENGLAND.                                              *a^7
"foot, and the bitch they held fall by the neck, for fhe would have been gone to the
lions or what they were, that as it chanced came not nigh them, fo they watched the
tree that extreme cold night, and in the morning travelling again, paffing by many
lakes, brooks and woods, and in one place where the favages had burnt four or five miles
in length, which is a fine champaign country, in the afternoon they difcovered the two
ifles in their bay, and fo that night near famifhed they got to their plantation, from
whence they had fent out men every way to feek them ; that night the houfe they had
built and thatched, where lay their arms, bedding, powder, &c. took fire and was
burnt. The coaft is fo fhoal the fhip rides more than a mile from the fort, but God be
thanked no man was hurt though much was burnt.
All this time we could not have conference with a favage, though we had many times
feen them and had many alarms, fo that we drew a council, and appointed Captain
Standifh to have the command of all martial actions, but even in the time of consulta-
tion the favages gave an alarm : the next day alfo as we were agreeing upon his orders,
came a tall favage boldly amongft us, not fearing any thing, and kindly bid us welcome
in Englifh ; he was a Sagamo, towards the north, where the fhips ufe to fifh, and did
know the names of moft of the mafters that ufed thither : fuch victuals as we had we
gave him, being the firft favage we yet could fpeak with, he told us this place where
we were was called Patuxet, and that all the people three or four years ago there died
on the plague : in a day or two we could not be rid of him, then he «returned to the
Maffafoyts from whence he came, where is fome fixty people, but the Nawfits are one
hundred ftrong, which were they encountered our people at the firft.. Two days after
this Samofet, for fo was his name, came again, and brought five or fix of the Maffa-
foyts with him, with certain fkins, and certain tools they had got that we had left in the
woods at their alarms : much friendfhip t{jey promifed, and fo departed, but Samofet
would not leave us,'but feigned himfeif fick, yet at laft he went to entreat the favages
come again to confirm a peace : now the third time, as we were confulting of our
martial orders, two favages appeared, but when we -went to them they vanifhed : not
long after came Samofet and Squanto, a native of Patuxet, where we dwell, and one
of them carried into Spain by Hunt, thence brought into England, where a good time
he lived ; and now here fignified unto us, their great Sachem of Maffafoyt, with
Quadaquina his brother, and all their men, was there by to fee us : not willing to fend
our governor, we fent Edward Wolliflo with prefents to them both, to know their
minds, making him to underftand by his interpreters, how King James did falute him,
and was his friend ; after a little conference with twenty of his men, he came over the
brook to our plantation, where we fet him upon a rug, and then brought our governor
to him with drums and trumpets ; where after fome circumftances, for they ufe few
compliments, we treated of peace with them to this effect.
That neither he nor any of his fhould injure or do hurt to any of us ; if they did,
he fhould fend us the offender, that we might punifh him, and we would do the like
to him : if any did unjuftly war againft him, we would aid him, as he fhould us
againft our enemies, and to fend to his neighbour confederates to certify them of this,
that they might likewife be comprifed in thefe conditions, that when any of them came
to us, they fhould leave their bow and arrows behind them, as we would our pieces
when we came to them, all which the King feemed to like well of, and was applauded
of his followers.    In his perfon he is a very lufty man, in his beft years, an able body,
grave of countenance, and fpare of fpeech ; in his attire little differing from the reft :
after all was done, the governor conducted him to the brook, but kept our hoftage
till
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