The red man . rotuberant nose, sharp eye, coppery-red face, andcoarse, black hair, with a clean cut mouth. Many have noted his ap-pearance about town and readily recognized him as of aboriginal de-scent. His sister, Mrs. Mary Watson, and his brother, William MichelWakefield, are even more pronounced in their racial traits. Perhaps to a greater extent than with some other Indians tribe, thehistory of the Narragansetts is veiled in mystery. They were notmound-builders, hence scientists and ethnologists have not been per-mitted to wrest their secrets from buried stone and other littl
The red man . rotuberant nose, sharp eye, coppery-red face, andcoarse, black hair, with a clean cut mouth. Many have noted his ap-pearance about town and readily recognized him as of aboriginal de-scent. His sister, Mrs. Mary Watson, and his brother, William MichelWakefield, are even more pronounced in their racial traits. Perhaps to a greater extent than with some other Indians tribe, thehistory of the Narragansetts is veiled in mystery. They were notmound-builders, hence scientists and ethnologists have not been per-mitted to wrest their secrets from buried stone and other little that is known of them is traditional—narrations that havebeen thinned down too almost nothing through the generations thathave disappeared. Curious conceptions were formed by the first of the white settlers,some based on prejudice, others on well-grounded fear of the hostile-inclined red men. The learned Joseph Mede, an early Massachusettshistorian, expressed the opinion that at some remote and undiscover-. riiinJii. ^ru!i]|| •i[iiM-iiii-i||i-iiiiiiii|ii«-M||i« »iiiiiitnr-iiiiii->ii(i(«^nii- -inj? iiiri;;:;!!ii;:>iii>;,ii!:::7!;ii;:.;! ... ,,;...<. ii 141. -Ill able period, the devil finding the old world no longer suited to his oper-ations seduced a company of silly wretches for his abominable anddiabolic service, into a wilderness, where they practiced their diabolicalrites without hindrance or obstruction. Roger Williams formed no such opinion of the red mfen when hecame to Rhode Island in 1636. He came among them as a missionaryof more than ordinary hopefulness and enthusiasm as to their em-bracing Christianity and civilization. He might, perhaps, have ob-tained and recorded much of a historical character which would to-daybe invaluable from the archaeological and ethnological viewpoint, buthis interest was in the other direction. The little questioning that hed
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