[From the edition of 1613. Key: _A_, anchoring-place. _B_, channel. _C_, two islands (the left-hand one seems to be what is now known as Saquish, a peninsula connected at present with the Gurnet Head, here marked _H_; the right-hand one is the present Clark’s Island). _D_, sand-hills (apparently the low sand-hills of Duxbury beach). _E_, shoals. _F_, cabins and tillage ground of the natives. _G_, beaching-place of our barque (apparently the present Powder Point). _H_, land like an island, covered with wood (the present Gurnet Head). _I_, high promontory, seen four or five leagues at sea. This promontory has usually been called Manomet, and if the right-hand of the map is north, it has the correct bearing from the Gurnet; but it is in that case very strange that so marked a feature as the sand-spit known as Plymouth Beach is not indicated, and no sign is given of the conspicuous eminence known as Captain’s Hill. If, however, we consider the top of the map north (and the engraver may be accountable for the erroneous fashioning of the points of the compass), it becomes at once perfectly comprehensible as a sketch of that part of the bay known as Duxbury Harbor, and would not, accordingly, show that part of the shore on which the Pilgrims landed. In this view the hill _I_ becomes Captain’s Hill, and the rest of the plan, though but rudely conforming to the lines of Duxbury Harbor, is much more satisfactory in its topographical correspondences than the other theory would allow. See the modern map of the harbor in Vol. III. chap. viii. Cf. further Davis’s _Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth_, p. 35, and the papers in the _Mag. of Amer. Hist._, December, 1882.
It will be remembered that the French found in all this region populous communities, which had been greatly reduced or destroyed by a plague in 1616 and 1617, before the English made their settlements. Mr. Adams has grouped the authorities on this point in his Morton’s _New English Canaan_, p. 133.
The French accounts of these Massachusetts Indians may be compared with the later English descriptions of Smith, Winslow, Wood, Morton, Williams, Lechford, Josselyn, and Gookin.
The French continued to frequent the Massachusetts coast for some years. We have accounts of two of their ships, at least, which were lost there between 1614 and 1619,—one on Cape Cod, two of whose crew were reclaimed by Dermer (Bradford’s _Plymouth Plantation_, 98), and the other in Boston Harbor, whose crew were killed. Cf. 4 _Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll._, iv. 479, 489, in Phinehas Pratt’s narrative; Morton’s _New English Canaan_, Adams’s edition, p. 131; Mather’s _Magnalia_, book i. chap. ii.—ED.]]