. Dulany's history of Maryland. pines of the forest, and betrayed the wigwam of theIndians. The mind contemplated the future, with its barnsand dwellings bursting with plenty, and sumptuous ban-quets around richly laden tables in the western forests stretched out as far as the eye could reach ;the soil was rich and fertile, and the air sweet and balmy. 9. Along the river, messengers flew from one wigwamto another, carrying the strange tidings that canoes as bigas islands in the river had brought as many men as therewere trees in the forest. Council fires were kindled through-out t
. Dulany's history of Maryland. pines of the forest, and betrayed the wigwam of theIndians. The mind contemplated the future, with its barnsand dwellings bursting with plenty, and sumptuous ban-quets around richly laden tables in the western forests stretched out as far as the eye could reach ;the soil was rich and fertile, and the air sweet and balmy. 9. Along the river, messengers flew from one wigwamto another, carrying the strange tidings that canoes as bigas islands in the river had brought as many men as therewere trees in the forest. Council fires were kindled through-out the country, around which savage warriors and gravesachems hastily assembled ; groups of armed and paintednatives appeared on the shore, and the colonists were forthe first time brought face to face with the native savages. THE LANDING IN PEDHAMMOK RIVER. 21 10. In defiance of hostile demonstrations on the shore,the colonists landed on St. Clements Island in the PotomacRiver, and soon satisfied the natives that their intentions. ~ ^ ^^ «. were peaceful. Their land-ing was made on the 25thof March, being New Yearsday, 16o4, according to theJulian, or Old Style, Calen-dar. They took solemn pos-session of the soil of Maryland, erected a cross as the sym-bol of Christianity, and performed divine service, for thefirst time, according to the ceremonies of the Roman Catho-lic Church, of which a great number of the colonists weremembers. 22 THE HISTORY OF MARYLAND. 11. Governor Calvert ascended the Potomac to themouth of Piscataway Creek, and there met the PiscatawayIndians, the most powerful tribe, perhaps, within the limitsof Maryland, who, together with the Patuxents, exercisedsovereignty over all southern and central Maryland. 12. On the Virginia side of the river, the governor andhis paity, sailing in the ship Dove, discovered an Indianvillage governed by a chief Archihu ; the king of the tribebeing a small boy. Father Altham, a priest that came overwith the colonists, being of Go
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