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shallop, and Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, myself and 
three others, went ashore, being a white sandy and very 
bold shore ; and marching all that afternoon with our 
muskets on our necks, on the highest hills which we saw 
(the weather very hot), at length we perceived this 
headland to be parcel of the main, and sundry islands 
lying almost round about it; so returning towards even¬ 
ing to our shallop (for by that time the other part was 
brought ashore and set together), we espied an Indian, 
a young man of proper stature, and of a pleasing coun¬ 
tenance, and after some familiarity with him, we left him 
at the sea side, and returned to our ship, where in five 
or six hours’ absence we had pestered our ship so with 
codfish, that we threw numbers of them overboard again: 
and surely I am persuaded that in the months of March, 
April, and May, there is upon this coast better fishing, 
and in as great plenty, as in Newfoundland ; for the 
skulls of mackerel, herrings, cod, and other fish, that we 
daily saw as we went and came from the shore, were 
wonderful,” &c. 
“ From this place we sailed round about this headland, 
almost all the points of the compass, the shore very bold; 
but as no coast is free from dangers, so I am persuaded 
this is as free as any. The land somewhat low, full of 
goodly woods, but in some places plain.” 
It is not quite clear on which side of the Cape they 
landed. If it was inside, as would appear from Brere- 
ton’s words, ‘‘From this place we sailed round about 
this headland almost all the points of the compass,” it 
must have been on the western shore either of Truro or 
Wellfleet. To one sailing south into Barnstable Bay 
along the Cape, the only “ white, sandy, and very bold 
shore ” that appears is in these towns, though the bank 
