Their disease is the plague, for we might perceive the sores of some that had escaped who described the spots of such as usually die, (evidently the small-pox). When I arrived at my savage's native country, finding all dead, I travelled a long days journey westward to a place called Nummastaguyt (a place fifteen miles west from Patuxet) where finding inhabitants, I despatched a messenger a days journey farther west to Pocanaoket which bordereth on the sea, (now Bristol, Rhode Island); whence came to see me two kings, attended

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1 3 K. T. Hist. Soc. Coll., 2d .*HTie9. Vol. I. .W. I. Brodhead, 97.

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with a guard of fifty men, who being well satisfied with what my savage and I discoursed unto them -- being desirous of novelty-- gave me content in whatever I demanded, where I found that former relations were true.

" Here I redeemed a Frenchman, and afterwards, another at Mastachusit, who three years since escaped shipwreck at the north-east of Cape Cod."

Patuxet was the very place where on the 21st of December, 1620, eighteen months later, the Pilgrims from Leyden landed from the Mayflower, and which Captain John Smith six years before had called " Plymouth," a name which will ever be famous in New England history. Strange are the historic facts, that slaves were its first export, and those slaves Indians, that its first foreign visitors, after its discovery by Smith, were Frenchmen, the two redeemed by Dermer, who was the first to point out its advantages for a town, and that the coming there of the Pilgrims afterward was the merest accident of an accident, they having sailed for New Netherland.