[34]Squanto, the Pilgrims’ friend and sole survivor of the Patuxet natives, had been one of the Indians gathered by Sir Ferdinando to get information about New England. Gorges sent him back to America in 1618 or 1619 as guide to Capt. Dermer. [35]“Monhaccke” in the manuscript. In the early seventeenth century, Iroquois Indians ranged as far east as New Hampshire. [36]Hip-length coats of some protective strength. [37]Eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, where Pory had held land. [38]Charts. [39]Pacific Ocean. The French knew about the Great Lakes. [40]Indians, quite powerful in Pory’s day, living in the lower part of the river valley of the same name. [41]The letter was written at the fishing grounds off northern New England, probably Monhegan. [42]In 1628 John Gibbs was master of the _Marmaduke_ in the service of the New Plymouth Adventurers. [43]Virginia Company of London. [44]William Vengham. He was living and selling cured fish at Monhegan (probably by arrangement with the island’s owners) in 1624, and perhaps when Pory was in the region. [45]“Tlemmish” in the manuscript. [46]In 1622, the Council for New England made Sir Samuel Argall its “Admiral” with the duty of excluding unlicensed operators from the Council’s territory, North America from 40° to 48°. American Antiquarian Society, _Proceedings_, Apr. 1867, 66-83. [47]Possibly an illusion, possibly Block Island. It appears as _Cabeleaus Eyleut_ (?) on the “Carte Figurative” (1616), reproduced in T. A. Janvier, _The Dutch Founding of New York_ (1903), between pages 20 and 21. [48]Pory was mixed up. Boston Bay was _Graaf Hendrycks Bay_; Casco Bay (or sometimes the water between Cape Ann and Portsmouth, N. H.), _Graaf Willem_’s; Port Royal is now Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia. The Dutch names in the text have been left in the half-translated state in which Pory wrote them. In modern Dutch, “States Hooke” would be _Staten Hoek_. [49]_Aquamachukes_ on the “Figurative Map” (1616), _Aquauachuques_ on map by Vander Donck (1656), reproduced in J. Winsor (ed.), _Narrative and Critical History of America_ (1884), IV, 433, 438. [50]Weston’s rowdy crew at Wessagussett. [51]Damariscove Island, off Boothbay, Me. [52]Plymouth, England. [53]Huckleberries. [54]“Hugh” in the manuscript. [55]This river is not identifiable. It may be an error in copying “Pentagoet,” the French name for the Penobscot. [56]Flat, open. [57]Gloucester or Annisquam. [58]“Anna” in the manuscript. [59]The _Bona Nova_ was a ship often employed in the Virginia trade. Nothing further is known about Swabber and the dead man. [60]Indians. [61]Goods for barter. [62]Indians who performed the massacre of 1622 in Virginia. [63]Edward Winslow, who left Plymouth for England on the _Anne_, Sept. 10, 1623.