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• The principal island, Martha's Vineyard...Its usual Indian name was Capawock, though sometimes called Nope. (It is believed that Nope was more properly the name of Gay Head.) The greatest part of the island is low and level land.
• Miohqsoo, or Myoxeo, was another noted Indian of Nope. He was a convert of Hiacoomes, whom he had sent for to inquire of him about his God.
• R. Gookin calls it Nope; other writers call it Capawack. It is the island known to us as Martha's Vineyard...As Mr Eliot's first convert, Waban, was, through life, a sober, upright man, so Hiacoomes, the first Christian Indian of Nope, always preserved an unspotted reputation.
• A catechism in the dialect of the Indians of Nope or Martha's Vineyard.
• Their story, as written by Daniel Gookin in 1674, is worth repeating: At the island of Nope, or Martha's Vineyard, about the year 1649, one of the first ...