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Updated: May 6, 2025
Tisquantum goes past Dermer and Samoset and stands looking off across the harbor, deep in gloomy thought. >From out there, as darkness closes about the lonely figure on the shore, there is borne to our ears by the night wind the distant sound of voices chanting early sixteenth century music.
He was brought back to Cape Cod as an interpreter by an adventurer named Dermer, and finally returned to his own people, who were so enraged by his story of Hunt's treachery and cruelty, that they resolved by way of revenge to sacrifice the first white men who fell into their hands, and had they proved themselves better men than the Pilgrims would have inflicted not only death, but the most cruel torments upon them.
Thomas Dermer seems engaged in a very spirited conversation with Samoset, an Indian, while Tisquantum, another Indian, follows and seems absorbed in his own thoughts. While Dermer is engaged in conversation, a group of sailors pass near the water's edge, where they drop their burdens. They gaze out on the water as if looking for a boat.
It was defined as extending between New France and Virginia, from the fortieth to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude. After this New Netherland continued to be resorted to by Dutch traders, though no regular settlement was formed for some years. In 1619 Thomas Dermer visited the Hudson and brought news to England of the operations of the Dutch and the value of the fur trade.
"And the other two captives?" inquired Standish. "The Feast-of-Green-Corn before the last one, Captain Dermer carried them away in his ship," replied Squanto proud of his English and his information. "Ay, ay, and now we understand why these Nauset Indians attacked us at the First Encounter," said Standish. "Especially as they had probably watched us stealing their corn," added Fuller dryly.
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