The thinking kind, the wiser sort, might perceive more things than one, and among these the fact that savages had a sense of justice and would even fight against injustice, real or fancied.
The Calverts, through their interpreter, conferred with the inhabitants of this Indian village.

Would they sell lands where the white men might peaceably settle, under their given word to deal in friendly wise with the red men?
Many hatchets and axes and much cloth would be given in return.
To a sylvan people store of hatchets and axes had a value beyond many fields of the boundless earth.

The Dove appeared before them, too, at the psychological moment.

They had just discussed removing, bag and baggage, from the proximity of the Iroquois.

In the end, these Indians sold to the English their village huts, their cleared and planted fields, and miles of surrounding forest.