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the remains of a hut, and a great kettle 

 which had been some ship's kettle, and 

 brought out of Europe. " There was 

 another heap of sand made like the 

 others but it was newly done, we might 

 see how they had paddled it with their 

 hands which we digged up, and in it we 

 found a little old basket, full of fair 

 Indian corn : and digged further, and 

 found a fine great new basket, full of 

 very fair corn of this year, with some six 

 and thirty ears of corn, some yellow, and 

 some red, and others mixed with blue, 

 which was a very goodly sight. The 

 basket held about three or four bushels, 

 which was as much as two of us could 

 lift up from the ground. " l 



After some consideration as to the 

 propriety of taking the corn, the com- 

 pany concluded that, under the circum- 

 stances, it was justifiable to fill the kettle 

 with as much corn as they could carry 

 away, and afterwards return the property 

 to the owners if they could be found. 



1 Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims, p. 133. 

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