First Native Person to Meet British Who Came Ashore on the Mayflower Spoke English and Asked for a Beer

The pioneers that we now know as the Pilgrims were anxious, given many tales of vicious tribes, about how they might be welcomed on the shore of the Americas. And yet the first words they heard from a Native’s mouth were: ‘May I have a beer, please?’ in perfectly intoned and inflected English and accompanied by a girthy smile.