228:, and knew by name the most of the captains, commanders, and masters that usually come. He was a man free in speech, so far as he could express his mind, and of a seemly carriage. We questioned him of many things; he was the first savage we could meet withal. He said he was not of these parts, but of Morattiggon, and one of the sagamores or lords thereof, and had been eight months in these parts, it lying hence a day's sail with a great wind, and five days by land. He discoursed of the whole country, and of every province, and of their sagamores, and their number of men, and strength. The wind being to rise a little, we cast a horseman's coat about him, for he was stark naked, only a leather about his waist, with a fringe about a span long, or little more; he had a bow and two arrows, the one headed, and the other unheaded. He was a tall straight man, the hair of his head black, long behind, only short before, none on his face at all; he asked some beer, but we gave him strong water and biscuit, and butter, and cheese, and pudding, and a piece of mallard, all which he liked well, and had been acquainted with such amongst the English. He told us the place where we now live is called
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savage, which caused an alarm. He very boldly came all alone and along the houses straight to the rendezvous, where we intercepted him, not suffering him to go in, as undoubtedly he would, out of his boldness. He saluted us in
English, and bade us welcome, for he had learned some broken English among the Englishmen that came to fish at
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his men, as this savage told us, as he did likewise of the huggery, that is, fight, that our discoverers had with the
Nausets, and of our tools that were taken out of the woods, which we willed him should be brought again, otherwise, we would right ourselves. These people are ill affected towards the
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Massasoits, from whence he said he came, who are our next bordering neighbors. They are sixty strong, as he saith. The Nausets are as near southeast of them, and are a hundred strong, and those were they of whom our people were encountered, as before related.
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Massasoits, our neighbors, with such beavers' skins as they had to truck with us.
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Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
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346:"Samoset, Lord on Monhegan and Pemaquid",
1075:Native American people from Massachusetts
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542:who died at sea November/December 1620
215:, a 1622 account of the early days of
99:, or subordinate chief, of an Eastern
34:Interview of Samoset with the Pilgrims
374:"Note on the Indian Sagamore Samoset"
350:, Vol. IV, No. 5, Bangor, Maine, 1888
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384:. Boston: The Society: 59–70 at 60.
419:The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
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202:of England, home of many sailors.
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547:who died in the winter of 1620–21
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36:, depicting Samoset meeting the
334:Encyclopedia of World Biography
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348:The Maine Historical Magazine
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468:Nathaniel Philbrick
124:Algonquian language
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312:Peirce, Ebenezer.
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658:John Carver
610:Separatists
574:signatories
564:Cole's Hill
395:December 2,
332:"Samoset",
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180:orthography
85:New England
62: 1653
55: 1590
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915:passengers
784:John Alden
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947:Mayflower
902:Speedwell
885:Corbitant
880:Massasoit
875:Hobbamock
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535:Mayflower
527:Mayflower
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136:Wampanoag
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533:List of
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188:Somerset
168:Pemaquid
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48:Somerset
38:Pilgrims
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909:Fortune
894:Related
870:Samoset
865:Squanto
519:General
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292:8978744
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184:Samoset
145:Squanto
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101:Abenaki
91:History
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