The next day, he went away back to the Massasoits,[436] from whence he said he came, who are our next bordering neighbors. They are sixty strong, as he saith. The Nausites are as near, south-east of them, and are a hundred strong; and those were they of[437] whom our people were encountered, as we before related. They are much incensed and provoked against the English, and, about eight months ago, slew three Englishmen; and two more hardly escaped by flight to Monhiggon. They were Sir Ferdinando Gorges’ men, as this savage told us; as he did likewise of the _huggery_, that is, fight,[438] that our discoverers had with the Nausites, and of our tools that were taken out of the woods, which we willed him should be brought again: otherwise we would right ourselves. These people are ill affected towards the English by reason of one Hunt,[439] a master of a ship, who deceived the people, and got them, under color of trucking with them,――twenty out of this very place where we inhabit, and seven men from the Nausites;――and carried them away, and sold them for slaves, like a wretched man――for twenty pound a man――that cares not what mischief he doth for his profit. Saturday, in the morning, we dismissed the savage, and gave him a knife, a bracelet, and a ring. He promised within a night or two to come again, and to bring with him some of the Massasoits, our neighbors, with such beavers’ skins as they had to truck[440] with us. Saturday and Sunday, reasonable fair days. On this day came again the savage, and brought with him five other tall, proper men. They had every man a deer’s skin on him; and the principal of them had a wildcat’s skin, or such like, on the one arm. They had, most of them, long hose up to their groins, close made, and above their groins, to their waist, another leather: they were altogether like the Irish trousers. They are of complexion like our English gypsies; no hair, or very little, on their faces; on their heads, long hair to their shoulders, only cut before,――some trussed up before with a feather, broad-wise, like a fan; another, a fox-tail hanging out. These left――according to our charge given him before――their bows and arrows a quarter a mile of from our town. We gave them entertainment as we thought was fitting them. They did eat liberally of our English victuals. They made semblance unto us of friendship and amity. They sang and danced after their manner like antics.[441] They brought with them in a thing like a bow-case――which the principal of them had about his waist――a little of their corn pounded to powder, which, put to a little water, they eat. He had a little tobacco in his bag; but none of them drank[442] but when he liked. Some of them had their faces painted black, from the forehead to the chin, four or five fingers broad; others after other fashions, as they liked.