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ry youtli that was so disposed, catched hold of the 

 girl he liked best, and took her that night for his 

 bed fellow, making as short courtship and expedi- 

 tious weddings, as the foot guards used to do with 

 the trulls in Salisbury court. 



Next we shall treat of the land hereabouts, 

 which is a marl as red as blood, and will lather 

 like soap. The town stands on this land, which 

 holds considerably farther in the country, and is, 

 in my opinion, so durable that no labor of man in 

 one or two ages, could make it poor. I have for- 

 merly seen the like in Leicestershire, bordering 

 upon Rutland. Here are corn stalks in their 

 fields as thick as the small of a man's leg, and they 

 are ordinarily to be seen. 



We lay with these Indians one night, there be- 

 ing by my bedside one of the largest iron pots I 

 had ever seen in America, which I much wondered 

 at, because I thought there might be no navigable 

 stream near that place. I asked them where they 

 got that pot. They laughed at my demand and 

 would give me no answer, which makes me guess 

 it came from some wrecu, and that we were nearer 

 the ocean or some great river than I thought. 



The next day, about noon, we accidentally met 

 with a southward Indian amongst those that used to 

 trade backwards and forwards, and spoke a little 

 English, whom we hired to go with us to the Esaw 

 Indians, a very large nation, containing many 

 thousand people. 



