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The book Flaptail recommended, The Eduring Shore, is a very good read. You'll learn that the Pilgrims were about 150 years behind the first white men to have hit the shores of the Cape and Islands(some say the Vikings had been here almost 1,000 years earlier). When a small group of Pilgrims first encountered the Natives (after rowing a dory from P-town to Eastham) one of the Natives was wearing leather shoes with brass buckles, and an overcoat. The arrival of the Pilgrims was the beginning of the end for the Indians, but hardly the beginning of the white man's arrival on the Cape and Islands.
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