English: English explorer Captain George Weymouth showing magnetism to Native Americans "The Indians were finally induced to visit the ship, and showed great curiosity at everything they saw. Captain Weymouth, for their entertainment, and also, perhaps, in order to impress them with a sense of his extraordinary powers, magnetized the point of his sword, and with it took up needles and knives. The Indians regarded this as magic, but the process of writing seemed to them even more marvelous. They watched with amazement, and even with fear, the writing down of the names of the articles bought and sold."[1]