Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . ppened to be 30 THE INDIANS in the village a certain Captain Henry Fleete, an English-man, who understood the Indian language. He actedas Governor Calverts interpreter. Leaving this village Governor Calvert went on up theriver to Piscataway. Here he found five hundred armedIndians who would not lethim land. But he madesigns of peace to them, and atlength the chief himself cameon board the pinnace. In the course of a fewyears many of the Indiansbecame Christians. Severalchiefs, with their wives anddaughters, were chief sent his l
Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . ppened to be 30 THE INDIANS in the village a certain Captain Henry Fleete, an English-man, who understood the Indian language. He actedas Governor Calverts interpreter. Leaving this village Governor Calvert went on up theriver to Piscataway. Here he found five hundred armedIndians who would not lethim land. But he madesigns of peace to them, and atlength the chief himself cameon board the pinnace. In the course of a fewyears many of the Indiansbecame Christians. Severalchiefs, with their wives anddaughters, were chief sent his littleseven-year-old daughter,whom he dearly loved, tolive with the English, andafter she had been taught,to be baptized. What kind of people werethese Indians, and how did they live? You must notthink that they were always fighting and roaming indeed, they lived in villages along the water-sidealmost as quietly and peacefully as you and I do, exceptwhen the Susquehannoughs attacked them. They caught fish in the bays and streams, and had 31. INDIAN SQUAW AND PAPOOSE MARYLAND fields in which they grew corn, beans and tobacco. Wecan hardly call them farmers. They did not have ploughsand harrow^s drawn by horses or oxen. Indeed, therewere no horses or cattle in America until the Europeansbrought them. Columbus himself brought some cows Indians dug up the earth with rude hoes made ofstone or hard wood. They could only cultivate smallfields where the ground was rich and not very hard to , of course, they soon bought iron hoes from the Eng-lishmen.
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