The Mayflower - November 15th, 1620

They set forth the 15 of November and when they had marched about the space of a mile by the sea side, they espied 5 or 6 persons with a dog coming towards them, who were savages; but they fled from them and ran up into the woods, and the English followed them, partly to see if they could speak with them, and partly to discover if there might not be more of them lying in ambush.  But the Indians seeing themselves thus followed, they again forsook the woods and ran away on the sands as hard as they could, so as they could not come near them, but followed them by the track of their feet sundry miles and saw that they had come the same way.  So, night coming on, they made their rendezvous and set out their sentinels and rested in quiet the night . . .