When the pilgrims landed at Provincetown harbor,
they were attacked by Native Americans, about which they later learned that a
group of Native Americans was captured by the English Explorer Thomas Hunt and
sold into slavery. “Squanto”, who was a Native American was in that group of
slaves.
<span>The attack actually was a kind of retaliation by
the Native Americans for the act of Thomas Hunt. </span>
The phrase that indicated a lost in thought feel is the "Midnight shakes the memory". It means that his train of thought is going double time in the dark or at night.
