. Indian history for young folks . But this vile actkept him ever after from anymore employment in thoseparts. AVhen we learn what theclergy of that day thought ofthe poor Indian, we can betterunderstand the infamous con-duct of these cruel man-steal-ers. We may guess, saysthat eminent divine of NewEngland, Rev. Cotton Mather, that probably the devil de-coyed these miserable salvageshither, in hopes that the gospelof the Lord Jesus Christ would never come here to destroy or disturb his V absolute empire over them. Columbus says of the natives of the West Indies, We found themtimid, and full of
. Indian history for young folks . But this vile actkept him ever after from anymore employment in thoseparts. AVhen we learn what theclergy of that day thought ofthe poor Indian, we can betterunderstand the infamous con-duct of these cruel man-steal-ers. We may guess, saysthat eminent divine of NewEngland, Rev. Cotton Mather, that probably the devil de-coyed these miserable salvageshither, in hopes that the gospelof the Lord Jesus Christ would never come here to destroy or disturb his V absolute empire over them. Columbus says of the natives of the West Indies, We found themtimid, and full of fear, very simple and honest, and exceedingly liberal,none of them refusing anything he may possess when asked for it. Likeidiots—they bartered cotton and gold for fragments of glasses, bottles, andjars, which I forbade as being unjust, and myself gave them many beau-tiful and acceptable articles which I had brought with me, taking nothingfrom them in return. Upon his first arrival, Columbus took some of the natives by force,. SKBAST1AS CABOT, BY HOLBEIN. EARLY EUROPEAN INTERCOURSE WITH THE INDIANS. 49 in order that they might learn the language of the Spaniards and com-municate what they knew respecting the country; and they were soonable, either by gesture or by signs, to understand each other. They en-tertained the idea that the white men descended from heaven, and ontheir arrival at any new place, (tried out immediately, with a loud voice,to the other Indians, Come ! come and look upon beings of a celestialrace; upon which both women and men, children and adults, young andold, when they got rid of their first fear, would come out in throngs,crowding the roads to see them, some bringing food, others drink, withastonishing affection and kindness. Gaspar Cortereal, a mariner in the service of the King of Portugal,ranged the newly - discovered coast for six hundred or seven hundredmiles, as far as the fifteenth parallel, admiring the brilliantverdure and dense forests wherev
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