History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent .. . d, he still refusedto hear of peace, and struck dead the warrior whoproposed it. At length, after the absence of a year,he resolved, as it were, to meet his destiny; andreturned to the beautiful land where were the gravesof his forefathers, the cradle of his infancy, and theAug. nestling-place of his tribe. Once he escaped narrowly,leaving his wife and only son as prisoners. My heartbreaks, cried the tattooed chieftain, in the agony ofhis grief; now I am ready to die. His own follow-ers began to plot against him, to
History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent .. . d, he still refusedto hear of peace, and struck dead the warrior whoproposed it. At length, after the absence of a year,he resolved, as it were, to meet his destiny; andreturned to the beautiful land where were the gravesof his forefathers, the cradle of his infancy, and theAug. nestling-place of his tribe. Once he escaped narrowly,leaving his wife and only son as prisoners. My heartbreaks, cried the tattooed chieftain, in the agony ofhis grief; now I am ready to die. His own follow-ers began to plot against him, to make better terms forthemselves, and in a few days he was shot by a faithlessIndian. The captive orphan was transported. So per-ished the princes of the Pokanokets. Sad to them hadbeen their acquaintance with civilization. The iirst shipthat came on their coast, kidnapped men of their kin-dred ; and now the harmless boy, that had been cher-ished as an only child, and the future sachem of theirtribes, the last of the family of Massasoit, was sold into a I I I THE ^iPUBLIC I. KING PHILIPS WAR. 109 bondage, to toil as a slave ^ under the suns of Bermuda, chap XII. Of the once prosperous Narragansetts, of old the chief -^—tribe of New England, hardly one hundred men re- l^>76mained. The sword, fire, famine, and sickness, hadswept them from the earth. During the whole w^ar, the Mohegans remainedfaithful to the English; and not a drop of blood wasshed on the happy soil of Connecticut. So much thegreater was the loss in the adjacent colonies. Twelveor thirteen towns were destroyed; the disbursementsand losses equalled in value half a million of dollars—anenormous sum for the few of that day. More than sixhundred men, chiefly young men, the flower of thecountry, of whom any mother might have been proud,perished in the field. As many as six hundred houseswere burned. Of the able-bodied men in the colony,one in tw^enty had fallen ; and one family in twentyhad been burnt out. The
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