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the most of what was said, and they always placed us 

 in a suitable scat to sit, and they were not put by, by 

 our coming in, but rather appeared glad to see us come 

 in. And a minister is called Cooutaumuchary. 



And as I said before, they had justices, constables, 

 grand jurymen, and carried on for a great many years 

 many of them very well and precisely, and lived in 

 very good fashion. Some of them were weavers, some 

 good carpenters. 



Now I will begin at the west end of the island, which 

 we call Smith's Point, but the Indians call Nopque, 

 which was called a landing place when they came from 

 the Yineyard, but they call it Noapx; then eastward 

 about three miles comes the Hummock Pond, where 

 we once had a great number of whale houses with a 

 mast raised for a lookout, with holes bored through and 

 sticks put in like a ladder, to go up; then about three 

 miles eastward to the said Weweder Ponds stood 

 another parcel of whale houses, then about three miles 

 eastward to Nobedeer Pond was where Benjamin 

 Gardner lived formerly, then about three and one half 

 miles eastward is the aforesaid Tom Never's Head, then 

 two miles to the northward is the famous town or fish- 

 ing stage called Siasconset, then about one mile north- 

 ward is the high head of land called Sancoty Head, and 

 the Indians called Napbchecoy, which signifies round 

 the bead, and then about one mile northward is the 

 aforesaid Sesacacha Pond, where our other fishing 

 >\;vj<> stands. 



Then 1>< >gins the said Squam, and runs north two 

 miles to the beginning of our said long sandy point 

 Nauma; and the first is one mile to a place called 



