This place they found by following the smoke of the fire was probably a summer fishing camp at Nause. If the native’s main town was not located conveniently to encounter the spring fish runs, then the natives built temporary summer fishing camps like this one.

Of all the places that Smith visited, this area is one of the places you can visit today to see what the Algonquian Chesapeake looked like. This low, flat, swampy, marshy world was a rich year-round resource for the Kuskarawaoks who were able to sustain large numbers of people here, but the English did not find it useful except for grazing and fishing and so it has been left relatively untouched.