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�the snow and ice must have remained considerably later than at present. And there, too, Paugus' body was not so badly decomposed but that Col. Tyng's[?] men recognized the marks upon it. Might it not have been possible that Paugus and the two buried with him were all visiting Scaticooks[?], who had incited the Pigwackets[?] to go on the war-path with them (witness the raid on Scar- boro) and were buried as they were because not of the Piquacket[?] tribe? Perhaps the Pigwackets[?] felt that Paugus had brought bad luck enough upon them, as he most certainly had, if your thesis is correct, or perhaps they felt that the English might make a special search for Paugus' body, and they didn't wish to draw them these English to their own secret burying place,--or what I think most probably it was no easy matter to carry away all those bodies, I [?] hardly enough living to bury the dead) and so Paugus and the other two were disposed of in the quickest and easiest manner possible. Do you think there might be anything in this idea? I know almost nothing about Indian customs but somehow I felt that the fact that Paugus' body was left where it was, might be just one more indication that he was not a Pigwacket[?], most certainly not the Pigwacket[?] chief. As for the Paugus-Chamberlain duel it may interest you to know that that though people in this vicinity have always accepted May 8 as the proper correct date, and Paugus as a Pigwacket[?] chief, there has always been considerable skepticism regarding the duel. One of my father's cousins once attempted a history of Fryeburg, and my father used to have a bit of fun at his expense saying that he couldn't finish the history because he couldn't determine who killed Paugus. Also here's a newspaper clipping which must date back twenty-five years or more. I think Mr. Lewis was on the staff of some Boston newspaper (The Herald, I believe) but he was born and