. Indian history for young folks . me, him I will answer. He was executed by ColonelDenisous Indian allies near Stonington, Connecticut. When told that hemust die, and that his last hour had arrived, the proud warrior, with thespirit of an ancient Roman, replied, I like it well. I shall die before my heart is soft, or I have said any-thing unworthy of myself. After the death of Xanuntenoo the remnant of his tribe united withthe Niantics under Ninigret, a famous warrior who, at the head of histribe, had preserved neutrality with the English during the war. It wasthis sachem who, on being asked
. Indian history for young folks . me, him I will answer. He was executed by ColonelDenisous Indian allies near Stonington, Connecticut. When told that hemust die, and that his last hour had arrived, the proud warrior, with thespirit of an ancient Roman, replied, I like it well. I shall die before my heart is soft, or I have said any-thing unworthy of myself. After the death of Xanuntenoo the remnant of his tribe united withthe Niantics under Ninigret, a famous warrior who, at the head of histribe, had preserved neutrality with the English during the war. It wasthis sachem who, on being asked to allow the preaching of Christianityamong his people, replied that it would be better to preach it amongthe English till they became good. Roger Williams calls him a proudand fierce sachem. His portrait, painted at Boston in 1647, is ownedby the Winthrop family. The cost of this Indian war was as great in proportion as was that ofthe Revolutionary War a century later. Twelve or thirteen towns were INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG destroyed, one in twenty of the able-bodied men had fallen, and one family in twenty had been burned out. In addition to this the colonies had incurred a debt of half a million dollars—an enormous sum for those days. J>ut the power of the Indians in southern New England was broken forever. Many of the Indians tied westward, and those captured were sold into slavery. As soon as the news of the risingof the Pokanokets reached the Indi-ans at the eastward, they too beganhostilities, the French on the Penob-scot supplying them with arms. Oneof the causes of this outbreak wassaid to be the cruel conduct of someEnglish seamen, who overset a canoecontaining the wife and child ofSijiiando, a chief of the Saco tribe,in order to see if young Indians could swim naturally, like animals of the brute creation, for so they had child was saved from drowning by the mother, who dived down andbrought it up from the bottom; but it died soon afterwards, an
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