d Carew, the offer we made you
at New Town may convince you of the regard we have for you; we therefore
cannot think of leaving the country before we have, by some means or
other, procured your liberty; we have already sounded the boatswain and
mate, and find we can bring them to wink at your escape; but the greatest
obstacle is, that there is forty pounds penalty and half a year's
imprisonment, for any one that takes off your iron collar, so that you
must be obliged to travel with it, till you come among the friendly
Indians, many miles distant from hence, who will assist you to take it
off, for they are great friends with the English, and trade with us for
lattens, kettles, frying-pans, gunpowder and shot; giving us in exchange
buffalo and deer skins, with other sorts of furs. But there are other
sorts of Indians, one of which are distinguished by a very flat forehead,
who use cross-bows in fighting; the other of a very small stature, who
are great enemies, and very cruel to the whites; these you must endeavour
by all means to avoid, for if you fall into their hands, they will
certainly murder you.

And here the reader will, we make no doubt, be pleased to see some
account of the Indians, among whom our hero was treated with so much
kindness and civility, as we shall relate in its proper place.

At the first settling of Maryland, there were several nations of them
governed by petty kings. Mr. Calvert, Lord Baltimore's brother having
been sent by him to make the first settlement in Maryland, landed at
Potowmac town; during the infancy of Werowance, Archibau, his uncle, who
governed his territories in his minority, received the English in a
friendly manner. From Potowmac the governor proceeded to Piscataqua,
about 20 leagues higher, where he found many Indians assembled, and among
them an Englishman, Captain Henry Fleet, who had lived there several
years in great esteem with the natives. Captain Fleet brought the prince
on board the governor's pinnace to treat with him. Mr. Calvert asked
him, whether he was agreeable that he and his people should settle in his
country. The prince replied, I will not bid you go, neither will I bid
you stay, but you may use your own discretion. The Indians, finding
their prince stay longer on board than they expected, crowded down to the
water-side to look after him, fearing the English had killed him, and
they were not satisfied till he showed himself to them, to please them.
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