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..saw it happen, so they were canoe born people. They were able to harass large areas up this way. So anybody
who was within canoeing range of the Nasowomacs was liable to either fortify their villages which was what
the people along the Patuxet River did or else simply to try and hide their villages
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and go well up river
which may have been one of the reasons the Nasomans were all up river. The Nasomans are a little bit of a
mystery and I'll go into them when I talk about the next factor. They don't fit in some other ways but
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going
up river where it's a little harder to reach, yeah, they may have done it for political reasons or for
military reasons. So you've got enemies.

Another reason for not living right close down to the Bay, although
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there is hungry time food remember, in
oysters and clams that you can get. Indian houses even when they were really solidly built were not
completely weather proof.
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If you read William Strakey, you will know that. And they usually tried to build
their houses in groves of trees, under some sort of cover to give them additional weatherproofing. So they
wouldn't be quite so subject to being blown away. Alright, if you been down in this area.
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I grew up right
there on that little creek and there was nothing much for 200 miles between us and Krisfield, Maryland. The
winds can be tremendous and in the winter time they can feel absolutely Arctic.
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It's one of the coldest places in Virginia. And it would be difficult to heat. As well as liable to be blowy.
So it's a good reason for Indian folks not to live there, certainly in the Winter, but maybe at any other season.
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And those salt water marshes are still capable of producing wonderful mosquitoes. They can just carry you on
away. So you don't find these marshy areas much inhabited for a variety of reasons.
Now there's one last factor that I've only started in on. Steven and I
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have already started arguing about it.
When you take a look at soil surveys and look at where the rich lands were, a lot of those line up with
Indian...
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