. Indian history for young folks . o have sacrificed meto the power they worship. To cure the sick, a man with a rattle, andextreme howling, shouting, singing, and such violent gestures and anticactions, labors over the patient. In passing over the water in foul weatherthey offer tobacco to their god to conciliate his favor. Death they lamentwith great sorrow and weeping; their kings they bury betwixt two mate, within their houses, with all his beads,jewels, hatchets, and copper; theothers in graves like ours. For thecrown their heirs inherit not, but thefirst heirs of the sister. The colonist
. Indian history for young folks . o have sacrificed meto the power they worship. To cure the sick, a man with a rattle, andextreme howling, shouting, singing, and such violent gestures and anticactions, labors over the patient. In passing over the water in foul weatherthey offer tobacco to their god to conciliate his favor. Death they lamentwith great sorrow and weeping; their kings they bury betwixt two mate, within their houses, with all his beads,jewels, hatchets, and copper; theothers in graves like ours. For thecrown their heirs inherit not, but thefirst heirs of the sister. The colonists were constantly infear of the savages, who lurked inthe neighboring forest. One of thembrought in a glittering stone one day,and said he would show them wherethere was a great abundance of went to see this mine, but wasled hither and thither until he lostpatience, and seeing that the Indianwas fooling him, gave him twentylashes with a rope. lie then handedhim his bow and arrows, told himto shoot if he dared, and let him. A MKDU go. Smith was always prompt andsquare with the Indians, keeping his promises to them, and neverhesitating to attack or punish them when necessary. They feared andrespected him. Smith was a great boaster, but there was no nonsenseabout him. lie was a born explorer, and in one of his voyages discovered and sailedup the Potomac River, collecting from the natives a quantity of were so abundant that his men attempted, though without success, tocatch them with frying-pans; the fishes very properly declined this pre-mature introduction to the frying-pan, not being dressed for the a subsequent journey he made acquaintance with the Susquehannocks,a tribe of large stature and of honest and simple disposition. Their VIRGINIA COLONIZED. 97 voices were proportioned to their size, says Smith, sounding, as it were,a great, voice in a vault or cave, as an echo. Earlv in the following year Smith, with Newport and about twentyot
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