Samoset and Squanto P3

More on our trip through History, the Superintending Providence of God, Samoset and Squanto.
Last week we talked about Samoset, a solitary wandering Indian who spoke broken English. Samoset informed the Pilgrims that the Patauxet, a fierce warring people, who were recently wiped out by a strange plague before the Pilgrims arrived, previously inhabited the land on which the Pilgrims now lived. Due to the devastating nature of the epidemic, neighboring tribes were afraid to come near the place. They believed that some great supernatural spirit had destroyed the people there and might also kill them. The land was therefore left abandoned and open until the Pilgrims, unaware of the former plague, arrived.
Samoset warned the Pilgrims that any Indians they encountered were likely to be hostile. This disposition was in part a reaction to an English ship captain attached to the Virginia Colony who had previously visited the region and kidnapped natives to sell into slavery.
CONTENT SOURCED "The American Story, the beginnings" by David Barton and Tim Barton