all the while.

All the Indians smoked an herb called tobacco, which grows abundantly
in this land, and I have Nathaniel's word for it that one savage
had a tobacco pipe nearly a yard long, with the device of a deer
carved at the great end of it big enough to dash out one's brains
with.

There is very much more which might be said about these savages
that would be of interest; but I am minded now to leave such stories
for others to tell, and come to the day when Captain Newport was
ready to sail with the Susan Constant and the Goodspeed back to
England, for his share in the adventure was only to bring us over
from England, after which he had agreed to return.

The pinnace was to be left behind for the use of us who remained in
the strange land. Before this time, meaning the thirteenth day of
May, the members of the Council had decided upon the place where
we were to build our village. It was to be in the country of
the Paspahegh Indians, at a certain spot near the shore where the
water runs so deep that our ships can lie moored to the trees in
six fathoms.



THE PEOPLE LAND FROM THE SHIPS


Then it was that all the people went on shore, some to set up the
tents of cloth which we had brought with us to serve as shelters