Truro--Cape Cod, or, Land marks and sea marks . s liquid than Argos and Attica, Olympus and Mjxena, Indian could count hundreds of miles between his battle-fields, where the Greeks could count leagues. In courage, the world has never seen a higher order. I like it well that I shall die before my heart growssoft, or that I shall have said anything unworthy ofmyself. said the brave Canonicus, spurning the offer ofliberty if he would betray his tribe. The brightest pages of Grecian or Roman history narratenothing more heroic or grand. It was the same chief whosent Miles Standish a bundle of
Truro--Cape Cod, or, Land marks and sea marks . s liquid than Argos and Attica, Olympus and Mjxena, Indian could count hundreds of miles between his battle-fields, where the Greeks could count leagues. In courage, the world has never seen a higher order. I like it well that I shall die before my heart growssoft, or that I shall have said anything unworthy ofmyself. said the brave Canonicus, spurning the offer ofliberty if he would betray his tribe. The brightest pages of Grecian or Roman history narratenothing more heroic or grand. It was the same chief whosent Miles Standish a bundle of arrows tied with a snake-skin. The doughty captain, not to be outdone b) a saxa^e, h: . irr .rf!a THE NATIVE AMERICAN. 27 kept the arrows, but returned the snake-skin stuffed and shot, Your governor is only a subject of Kin,:; Charles; I slialltreat only with the king, my brother. When Charles of Eng-land comes I am ready, was King Philips reply to thegovernors messenger. The cruelty of the Indians was for real or imaginary XJd. -L. RETURNING THE wrongs. It was their boast that they scalped only their ene-mies. History regards the Pequots as the most in New England ; but as fair a man as Governor \Mn-throp said. The Pequots had done Massachusetts no Potcer charges the I-Lnglish with being responsible forthe Pequoi War. But the judge fans his indignation on thePuritans, to better defend the Quakers whom history hasnobly honored. Comparatively little is known about the Pamets ; but it ???M^it TRURO—CAFE COD becomes our history not to unnoticed tiie original inhent-ors of our homes. They iivea in the same Muinv valievs ?the smoke of their wigwams curled in the same skv • thevdrank from the same springs; they planted their, cornbeans and pumplans in the same i^eids, fished in the samewaters, and were buried ;„ the same mother earth It i« it they were ever as populous m the country as hasbeen generally believed. The Indi
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