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ilic English. Then they hastened a \\a\ with what speed they could and in Less 
than fourteene dayes arived att ye Tomahittns with theire plunder. 
Now ye king must x<«- to give ye monetons a visil which were his trends, mony 
signifing water and ton greal in theire language. Gabriel! must goe along with him 
They getl forth with sixty men and travelled tenn days due north and then arived 
at ye monyton towne sittuated upon a very great river att which place ye tide ebbs 
and Howes. Gabriel] sworn in ye river severall times, being fresh water, this is a 
great towne and a great number of Indians belong unto it, and in ye same river Mr. 
Bat t and Fallam were upon the head of it as you read in one of my first jornalls. This 
river runes north west and out of ye westerly side of it goeth another very great river 
about a days journey lower where the inhabitance are an inumarable company of 
Indians, as the monytons told my man which is twenty dayes journey from one end 
to ye other of ye inhabitance, and all these are at warr with the Tomahitans. when 
they had taken theire leave of ye monytons they marched three days out of thire way 
to give a clap to some of that great nation, where they fell on with great courage and 
were as couragiously repullsed by theire enimise. 
And heare Gabriel! received shott with two arrows, one of them in his thigh, which 
stopt his runing and sue was taken prisoner, for Indian vallour consists most in theire 
heeles for he that can run best is accounted ye best man. These Indians thought this 
Gabrill to be noe Tomahittan by ye length of his haire, for ye Tomahittans keepe 
theire haire close cut to ye end an enime may not take an advantage to lay hold of 
them by it. They tooke Gabriell and scowered his skin with water and ashes, and 
when they perceived his skin to be white they made very much of him and admire 
att his knife gunn and hatehett they tooke with him. They gave those thing to him 
a gadne. He made signes to them the gun was ye Tomahittons which he had a disire 
to take with him, but ye knife and hatchet he gave to ye king, they not knowing 
ye use of gunns, the king receved it with great shewes of thankfullness for they had 
not any manner of iron instrument that hee saw amongst them whilst he was there 
they brought in a fatt bevor which they had newly killd and went to swrynge it. 
Gabriell made signes to them that those skins were good a mongst the white people 
toward the sun riseing. they would know by signes how many such skins they would 
take for such a knife. He told them foure and eight for such a hattchett and made 
signes that if they would lett him return, he would bring many things amongst them, 
they seemed to rejoyce att it and carried him to a path that carried to ye Tomahittans 
gave him Rokahamony for his journey and soe they departed, to be short, when he 
came to ye Tomahittans ye king had one short voyage more before hee could bring 
in Gabriell and that was downe ye river, they live upon in perriougers to kill hoggs, 
beares and sturgion which they did incontinent by five dayes and nights. They 
went down ye river and came to ye mouth of ye salts where they could not see land 
but the water not above three foot deepe hard sand. By this meanes wee know this 
is not ye river ye Spanyards live upon as Mr. Needham did thinke. Here they killed 
many swine, sturgin and beavers and barbicued them, soe returned and were fifteen 
dayes runing up a gainst ye streame but noe mountainous land to bee seene but all 
levell. 1 
Arthur was then sent back to Virginia by the Tamahita chief; 
and he reached Wood's house June 18, 1674. 
This narrative leaves a great deal to be desired, and the reliability 
of much of that reported by Arthur is not beyond question, but the 
existence of a tribe of the name and its approximate location is 
established. The narrative is also of interest as containing the 
» Alvord and Bidgood, op. cit., pp. 218-223. 
