n, with newer and fairer
matts. In the houses we found wooden Boules, Trayes &
Dishes, Earthen Pots, Hand baskets made of Crab shells,
wrought together; also an English Pail or Bucket; it wanted
a bayle, but it had two iron eares. There was also Baskets
of sundry sorts, bigger and some lesser, finer and some
coarser. Some were curiously wrought with blacke and white
in pretie workes, and sundry other of their houshold stuffe.
We found also two or three Deeres heads, one whereof had
been newly killed, for it was still fresh. There was also a
company of Deeres feete stuck vp in the houses, Harts
hornes, and Eagles clawes, and sundry such like things there
was; also two or three baskets full of parched Acorns,
peeces of fish and a peece of a broyled Hering. We found
also a little silk grasse and a little Tobacco seed with
some other seeds which wee knew not. Without was sundry
bundles of Flags and Sedge, Bull-rushes and other stuffe to
make matts. There was thrust into a hollow tree two or three
pieces of venison, but we thought it fitter for the Dogs
than for us. Some of the best things we took away with us,
and left their houses standing still as they were. So it
growing towards night, and the tyde almost spent we hastened
with our things down to the shallop, and got aboard that
night, intending to have brought some Beades and other
things to have left in the houses in signe of Peace and that
we meant to truk with them, but it was not done by means of
our hasty comming away from Cape Cod; but so soon as we can
meet conveniently with them we will give them full
satisfaction."

As they returned to their boat the sun again went down, and another
gloomy December night darkened over the houseless wanderers. No cove,
no creek even, opened its friendly arms to receive them. They again
dragged their boat upon the beach. A dense forest was behind them, the
bleak ocean before them. As they feared no surprise from the side of
the water, they merely threw up a slight rampart of logs to protect
them from an attack from the side of the forest. They again united in
their evening devotions, established their night-watch, and, with a
warm fire blazing at their feet, fell soundly asleep. Through the long
night the wind sighed through the tree-tops and the waves broke upon
the shore. No other sounds