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to side in most places ; though in some you shall 

 have five, six or seven fathoms, but generally two 

 or three, sand and oaze. "We viewed the Cape 

 land and judged it to be little worth, the woods 

 of it being shrubby and low and the land sandy 

 and barren ; in some places grass and rushes, in 

 others nothing but clear sand : a place fitter to 

 starve cattle, in our judgment, than to keep them 

 alive ; yet the Indians, as we understand, keep 

 the English cattle down there and suffer them not 

 to go off of the said Cape, (as we suppose) because 

 the country Indians shall have no part with them, 

 and, therefore, 'tis likely they have fallen out 

 about them which shall have the greatest share. 

 They brought on board our ship very good and 

 fat beef several times, which they sold us at a very 

 reasonable price ; also fat and very large swine, 

 good and cheap, but they may thank their friends 

 of New England who brought their hogs to so 

 fair a market. Some of the Indians brought very 

 good salt aboard, us, and made signs, pointing to 

 both sides of the river's mouth, that there was 

 great store thereabouts. We saw up the river 

 several good places for the sitting up of corn or 

 saw mills. In that time, as our business called 

 us up and down the river and branches, we killed 

 of wild fowl, four swans, ten geese, twenty-nine 

 cranes, ten turkies, forty ducks and mallards, three 

 dozen of parrakeeto's and six dozen of other 

 small fowls, as curlues and plover, &c. 



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