Twee Scheeps-togten van Kapiteyn Johan Smith, beyde gedaan na Nieuw-Engeland. De eerste in het jaar 1614....

1614. Nature of the Peoples.

Furthermore, it is inhabited by people of good stature. We found the people of this place very friendly toward us, but no less brave in their anger due to a certain dispute we had with one of them. He set himself with some of his own by the harbor of Quonahasit at some stone cliffs, past which we had to pass, and they shot so fiercely with arrows at us that we had work to do to escape their rage.

Accomack. Nature of the people.

From there, one comes to Accomack, a fine and safe harbor. This land lacks nothing but industrious and diligent people. These people are very friendly and reconcile easily with strangers, for because of a small cause we fought with 40 or 50 of them, of whom some were wounded and defeated; yet before an hour had passed, we were good friends again.

Cape Cod.

Cape Cod is the first land that appears from there. This is high land with high sand dunes, overgrown with shrubs and all kinds of thickets; but it has a fine harbor, protected from all winds and danger. This Cape, from the common Sea to the other side, and a large Gulf on the other side, has the shape of a sickle. Near here lives the people of Pawmet and, inland, the peoples of Chawum. Toward the South and the Southwest of this Cape, a long and dangerous bank of sand and stones is found. But as far as I sailed around it, I always found 30 fathoms of water near the land with a strong current, from which it is easily deduced that there must be a channel by this bank, at which place one could catch the best fish in summer and winter. However, the Wilds indigenous people said that there was no channel there, but that this bank takes its beginning from Pawmet in the island of Nawset and would stretch on further.
Peoples of Pawmet and Chawum.

Dangerous bank.