The first Native to make contact with the pilgrims spoke English!

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

The pilgrims had been studying for months and some were stationed at a settlement known as Plymouth. The pilgrims were under the belief that the Native Americans or  'Indians' as they were wrongly termed for many years, were a savage tribe -  and assumed they were unintelligent people because of their culture.

Samoset, the first Native American to make contact with the pilgrims shocked them by speaking English! It was broken English but he was able to communicate with the pilgrims from listening to the fishermen in a near by region. He knew people by name, how to ask for food, and later went described the land to the pilgrims!

This detailed description of the land would not only include landmarks, but where Native Settlements were, and how many people were in that Settlement.