Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . ry the hatchet. Theyrefused to listen, and were utterly destroyed by the combined forces of the Eng-lish, the Narragansets, the Mohegans, and the Niantics. In 1638, Canonicus began to feel the infirmities of age, and resigned his gov-ernment into the hands of his nephew, Miantonomoh. That chief was afterwardmade a prisoner by Uncas, the last of the Mohegans, and murdered by theconsent of the English. The resentment of Canonicus was aroused, and he
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . ry the hatchet. Theyrefused to listen, and were utterly destroyed by the combined forces of the Eng-lish, the Narragansets, the Mohegans, and the Niantics. In 1638, Canonicus began to feel the infirmities of age, and resigned his gov-ernment into the hands of his nephew, Miantonomoh. That chief was afterwardmade a prisoner by Uncas, the last of the Mohegans, and murdered by theconsent of the English. The resentment of Canonicus was aroused, and he couldhardly be restrained from declaring war against the white people. Prudentcounsels prevailed in his cabinet, and peace was maintained. In the beautifulmonth of June, 1647, this wise and peaceable prince, as Williams calls him,died at his seat on Conannicut Island, opposite Newport, at the age of eighty-five years. 1. The practice of the Puritans of giving their children the names of moral qualities, was exemplifiedin Brewsters family. His two daughters were named respectively Fear and Love ; and his sons namewas Wrestling. 16 POCAHONTAS. She was a soft landscape of mild all was harmony and calm quiet,Luxuriant, budding. Byron. SUCH was the sweet little Indian giil, the favorite daughter of the powerfulEmperor of tlie Powhatan Confederacy in Virginia, when the white peoplelaid the foundations of a new empire there. When a site for a settlement waschosen, Captain Smith, the boldest of those early adventurers, penetrated theinterior, and was taken prisoner. His captor carried him in triumph from vil-lage to village, and then presented him to the Emperor, in his forest palace atWerowocomoco. Smith was condemned to die. With his arms pinioned, andhis head upon a huge stone, he was doomed to have his brains dashed out by ablow from a club. When the executioner advanced, Pocahontas, then a girlten or twelve years of age, leaped from her fathers side, where
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