[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Thomas Morton, in his New Eng lish Canaan, thus speaks of him, being in this country at that time : " That Sachem or Sagamore is a Powah of great estima tion amongst all kind of salvages, there hee is at their Revels (which is the time when a greate company of salvages meete from several parts of the country, in amity with their neighbors), hath advanced his honor in his feats or jugling tricks (as I may right tearme them], to the admiration of the spectators, whom hee endeavored to perswade that hee would goe under water to the further side of a river to broade for any man to undertake with a breath, which thing hee performed by swiming over and deluding the company with casting a mist before their eyes that see him enter in and come out; but no part of the way he has bin scene; likewise by our English in the heat of all summer, to make ice appear in a bowle of faire water, first having the