marched so quickly I arrived about nine o'clock on very extensive
flat land. After having passed over a high hill I came to a very even
footpath that had been made through the snow by the savages who
had passed this way with much venison, because they had come
home to their castle after hunting; and about ten o'clock I saw the
castle and arrived there about two o'clock. Upward of one hundred
people came out to welcome me, and showed me a house where I
could go. They gave me a white hare to eat that they caught two
days ago. They cooked it with walnuts, and they gave me a piece
of wheaten bread a savage that had arrived here from Ford Orange
on the fifteenth of this month had brought with him. In the evening
more than forty fathoms of seawan were divided among them as
the last will of the savages that had died of the smallpox. It was
divided in the presence of the chief and the nearest friends. It is
their custom to divide among the chief and nearest friends. And
in the evening the savages gave me two bear skins to cover me,
and they brought rushes to lay under my head, and they told us
that our kinsmen wanted us very much to come back.

January 17. Jeronimus and Tomassen, with some savages, joined
us in this castle, Tenotogehage, and they still were all right; and
in the evening I saw another hundred fathoms of seawan divided
among the chief and the friends of the nearest blood.

January 18. We went again to this castle, I should say from this
castle on our route, in order to hasten home. In some of the houses
we saw more than forty or fifty deer cut in quarters and dried; but
they gave us very little of it to eat. After marching half a league we
passed through the village of Kawaoge, and after another half league
we came to the village of Osquage. The chief, Ohquahoo, received