Arrowheads have been found in some quantity over the years in this vicinity. They are often found on the shores of the ponds, particularly in the early spring when ice scours the sand. It has never been my good fortune to find one. When there were Indians or a few surviving Indians in the region there have been marriages between them and whites. There are people in Plymouth today who have Indian blood in their veins, and who although quiet about it, do seem to have a happy pride in the fact. The first European to visit and observe and also to write an account of his experiences with the Indians of this region, the Wampanoags in particular, is Giovanni Verrazzano, a Florentine and a resident of Rouen, sailing under French auspices in the ship _Dauphine_ in 1524. They began near the Azores and sighted land at New Jersey. He and his party voyaged north for eleven weeks up to the coast of Maine. He gives us the first description of Rhode Island and Narragansett Bay, about forty miles from Plymouth. He spent fifteen days there from late April into May, the planting season for the Indians. They were in a fertile part of New England and he was impressed by the open prairies, well peopled by sedentary Indians, the vegetation largely patterned by man. These quotations from Verrazzano accounts are taken from _Sixteenth Century North America_, by Carl O. Sauer, University of California Press, 1971. Professor Sauer tells about a score of boats coming out to greet the _Dauphine_. The natives clambered aboard, among them two “kings” of fine stature and carriage. He then quotes Verrazzano: “The elder had about his naked body a buckskin, worked with damask and with various adornments; the head was bare and hair coiled at the back with various bindings; about them a large chain with stones of diverse colors ... these are the most handsome people and gentle in their manners of any we have met on this navigation. They exceed ourselves in size; color; the profile sharp, the hair long and black and they give great attention to its care; the eyes are black and alert, and their bearing is sweet and gentle, much in the manner of olden days. “... They are very generous and give anything they have. We formed great friendship with them. One day when we were trying to come into port with the ship from a league at sea, the weather being contrary, they came to the ship with a great number of their boats, their faces painted and made up in different colors in token of friendliness, and bringing us of their food. They showed us where we should make port to save the ship and accompanied us to the place where we dropped anchor.” Sauer goes on to say: