Champ] aln did not provide any detail of the coastline between Mallebar 

 (N'auset Harbor) and the northern point of Batturier (at Allen Point). On a 

 later map in 1607, undoubtedly made from the same information collected in 

 1605 and 1609 (Fig. 100), this section was shown as an indentation in the 

 otherwise smooth shoreline. Considering the care with which Champlain mapped 

 other areas of the American coast, this omission is surprising. It is possi- 

 ble that in sailing through Tucker's Terror and around Point Care, Champlain 

 was taken too far to sea to allow detailed views of this part of the Nauset 

 coastline. 





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Figure 100. Champlain' s 1607 chart of Cape Cod (courtesy of 

 Library of Congress) (from Morison, 1972). 



Nickerson's (1931) composite map made from accounts in the early 1600' s 

 shows several inlets through North Beach north of the spit (Cape Batturier) 

 mapped by Champlain (Fig. 94) . One of these inlets has been clearly marked 

 by the stranding of the ship, the Sparrow-Hawk, in lb26. Sailing without 

 adequate provisions, the Sparroti-Hauk was forced to land by angry passengers 

 (Otis, 1864). The sudden landing proved fatal when the ship became entrapped 

 on the shoals around an inlet through North Beach 1 mile south of Pochet 

 Island. Rising tides freed the ship but only drove it onto the shoals inside 

 the harbor. The ship was abandoned and covered with sand as the inlet channel 

 shifted southward. This inlet was also noted by Hudson in 1600, Dermier in 

 1619, and Bradford in 1622 (Nickerson, 1931). 



In 1863, 237 years after the grounding of the SparvoiO-Hawk in Pleasant 

 Bay, the same ship was exposed on the ocean beach (Otis, 18b4) . Salt marsh 

 had developed around the ship, which had been firmly fixed in the sand. This 



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