The _Mowhacks_ were ever accounted a cruel bloudy People, which were wont to come down upon their poor Neighbors, with more than bruitish Savageness, spoiling their Corn, burning their Houses, slaying Men, ravishing Women, yea very _Canibals_ they were, sometimes eating on a Man one part after another before his Face, and while yet living; insomuch, that the very Name of a _Mowhack_ would strike the Heart of a poor _Aberginian_ dead, till they had the _English_ on their sides to succor them; for these inhumane Homicides confess that they dare not meddle with a white Fac’d Man, accompany’d with his hot-mouth’d Weapon. These _Indians_ are a People of tall Stature, long grim Visages, slender Wasted, and having exceeding great Arms and Thighs, wherein they say their strength lieth; which is such, that one of them hath been known to kill a Dog with a fillip of his Finger, and afterwards to have flead and sod him, and eat him to his Dinner. They are so hardy, that they can eat such things as would make other _Indians_ sick to look upon; being destitute of Fish and Flesh, they suffice Hunger and maintain Nature with the use of Vegetatives; but that which they most hunt after, is the flesh of Man: Their custom is, if they get a stranger near their Habitations, not to Butcher him immediately, but keep him in as good plight as they can, feeding him with the best Victuals they have. These _Indians_ are more desperate in Wars than the other _Indians_, which proceeds not only from the fierceness of their Natures, but also in that they know themselves to be better Arm’d and Weapon’d; all of them wearing Sea Horse Skins and Barks of Trees, made by their Art as impenetrable, it is thought, as Steel, wearing Head-Pieces of the same, under which they March securely and undantedly, running, and fiercely crying out, _Hadree Hadree succomee succomee_, _We come to suck your Blood_, not fearing the feather’d shafts of the strong-arm’d Bow-men, but like unruly headstrong Stallions, beat them down with their right-hand _Tamahawks_, and left-hand Javelins, being all the Weapons which they use, counting Bowes a cowardly fight. _Tamahawks_ are Staves of two Foot and a half long, with knobs at one end as round and big as a Foot ball; a Javelin is a short Spear, headed with sharp Sea-Horse Teeth; one blow or thrust with these sharp Weapons, will not need a second to hasten death from a _Mowhacks_ arm. [Sidenote: The nature of the _Indians_ inhabiting Eastward.] The _Tarrenteens_ saving that they eat not Mans flesh, are little less Salvage and cruel than these _Cannibals_; our _Indians_ do fear them as their deadly Enemies, for so many of them as they meet, they kill. Take these _Indians_ in their own proper and natural disposition, and they are reported to be wise, lofty-spirited, constant in friendship to one another, true in their promise, and more industrious than many others. [Sidenote: The nature of the _Pequods_ and _Narragansets_.]