Farther account of Master Weston's settlement, and the movements of the Indians against him--Aspinet, the Nauset, supposed to be engaged in that affair--His tribe and power--Provocations from the English--Magnanimous revenge of the Sachem--His hospitality and kindness--Friendly intercourse with Plymouth--Is visited by governor Bradford--By captain Standish--Is suspected of hostility by Plymouth, and pursued by Standish--His death--Career and character of Iranough, the "Courteous Sachem of Cummaquid"--Is suspected and pursued--His death. Having necessarily, in the course of justice to some individuals heretofore noticed, animadverted on the early Indian policy of Plymouth, we shall devote this chapter to the further consideration of certain facts bearing upon that subject, and especially as connected with the case of Weston. These facts cannot be better set forth, than they are in the lives of two among the most remarkable natives who held intercourse with the Government in question. One of them was Aspinet, _the first open enemy,_ as the Pokanoket Sachem was the first ally, whom the Plymouth settlement had the fortune to meet with. He ruled over a number of petty tribes, settled in various parts of what is now the county of Barnstable, all of whom are said to have been ultimately subject, or at least subsidiary, to Massasoit. The principal among them were the Nausets, at Namskeket, [FN] within the present limits of Orleans, and round about the cove which separates that town from Eastham. With this tribe Aspinet had his residence. * * * * * [FN] A spot chosen with the usual sagacity of the Indians, and which at some period probably subsisted a large population with its immense stores of the _sickishuog,_ or clam. A thousand barrels annually are said to have been taken there in modern times, merely for fish-bait. _Mass. His. Coll._ Aspinet, we have observed, was the first open enemy of the colonists; and it will be admitted, that his hostility was not without cause. Of the twenty-four Indians kidnapped by Hunt, in 1614, twenty belonged to Patuxet, (or Plymouth,) and the residue were the subjects of the Nauset chieftain. When the Pilgrims came over, six years after this abominable outrage, it happened, that upon landing in the harbor of Cape Cod, before reaching Plymouth, they sent out a small party in a shallop, to discover a proper place for a settlement. These men went ashore a little north of the Great-Pond, in Eastham, and there they were suddenly attacked by the Nausets. The assailants were repulsed, but the English retreated in great haste.