Thoreau writes in his journal:
P.M.—Bathed in the creek, which swarms with terrapins, as the boys called them . . . A man by the riverside told us that he had two young ducks which he let out to seek their food along the riverside at low tide that morning . . . Bathed again near Dogfish Bar . . . I probably found an Indian’s bone at Throgg’s Point, where their bodies have been dug up.
Daniel Ricketson writes in his journal:
Walked this P.M. with Thoreau down as far as the Indian burial hill on Coggeshall farm, and after tea rode with him round Tarkiln Hill and home by Nash Road; talked widely and retired at 10 (Daniel Ricketson and His Friends, 294-295).
