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ing''' '!Ithe———PAGE TWO THE COLLECTING NETNaming of Woods Holefront of the Breakwater Hotel.Friendly Indians received themIs Traced tD Norsemen with presents of sassafras, andthe Sachem smoked the pipe ofvCor.. 1) peace with Gosnold. They thenproceeded to Falmouth and dedicatedthe Memorial Boulderous here, especially along theBay Shore, as is proved by shell- .,ust beyond the Railroad Cross-Iheaps, arrowheads, graveyards, at the entrance to the villageand Indian names of places.Some of their descendants arestill left at Mashpee, Gay Headand Indian Hill on the Vineyard.John Eliot, Apostle to the Indianswent through this regionpreaching to the aborgines.The earliest record of Englishdiscovery and settlement onthis Continent is that of Capt.Bartholomew Gosnold in May1602, five years before the settlementof Jamestown, and 18years before the landing of thePilgrims at Provincetown andPlymouth. Gosnold coastednlong "Cape Cod" and "Martha'sVineyard", which he so named.It seems probable from his accountthat he anchored at VineyardHaven and later landed atvhat is new Woods Ho-e May 31,1602. He named the island, calledby the Indians "Cuttyhunk","Elizabeth" in honor of hi.sQueen, and to this day the chainof islands between BuzzardsBay and Vineyard Sound is calledthe "Elizabeth Islands", and,