Abby's "Paw" Wah Traditional Geocache

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Abby's Followers: Been disabled too long and I haven't been able to fix it.

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Hidden : 8/19/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A very nice bit of conservation land in south orleans called Paw Wah Point.

The Point and the lands and islands around and within Pleasant Bay were managed and lived upon by the Nauset branch of the Algonquin nation, a large tribe sometimes called ‘the kingdom of the Nausets’ by the early Europeans. In 1762, in spite of the extirpation of the Cape’s native Americans, there were over 60 members of the Nausets occupying the area.

Paw Wah is Algonquian for ‘conjurer’ and this point was the home of a medicine man called Pompo. He must have been a powerful shaman for he drowned in Paw Wah Pond and to this day supposedly controls the success or failure of the fishing in this part of Pleasant Bay.

At the end of the trail, you can look out over Little Pleasant Bay and its islands. The Bay islands’ names all have an interesting provenance according to Eugene Green and William Sache in their book "Names of the Land". From east to west: Sampson Island was named for an Indian who traded his rights to beached whales in Wellfleet for this island; Hog Island is where settlers grazed their livestock and the eastern end of the island is called Money Head because it is supposed to be the spot where Captain Kidd buried much of his treasure; past Strong Island and Nickerson Neck in the far background is Sipson Island named for Sachem John Sipson and his brother Tom who sold some of their tidal flats in 1713 to a couple of men from Eastham; Fort Hill was where the last of the Nausets lived; they had a boiling spring which was explained by the legend that claims a great whale swam in under the cliff and when he attempted to exhale he started the spring to flow. He continued to swim underground and surfaced to the west in a pond called Whale Pond.

Please re-hide cache exactly as found.
There is also a letterbox nearby this cache for those who do that too.

***Congrats Johnny2154 on the FTF, sorry about the bloodshed***

**all information above comes from an article by the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History. The full article can be read at (visit link)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Vasb obneq, snxr ebpx

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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