. Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting . Providence. The Indians wel-comed him in words that tradition has preserved : WhaCheer, Natop, which has been variously translated, butseems to have been at least a friendly and compliment-ary fashion of passing the time o day. Within a few years of its settlement Providence hadan unsavory reputation for lawlessness, if the reports ofits Puritan enemies may , and even if wediscount those prejudiced accounts, there is still reasonto believe that the principles of liberty preached byWilliams had attra
. Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting . Providence. The Indians wel-comed him in words that tradition has preserved : WhaCheer, Natop, which has been variously translated, butseems to have been at least a friendly and compliment-ary fashion of passing the time o day. Within a few years of its settlement Providence hadan unsavory reputation for lawlessness, if the reports ofits Puritan enemies may , and even if wediscount those prejudiced accounts, there is still reasonto believe that the principles of liberty preached byWilliams had attracted a number of ungovernable spirits,whose excesses were for several years beyond the leaderscontrol. That this initial attempt to found a city at thehead waters of Narragansett Bay was grandly successful,in spite of the dangers and difficulties that at first besetit, was due almost entirely to the wonderful personality 15 i6 Narragansett Bay of that leader, who in face of opposition and lawlessnessfinally shaped its destinies. Williams suffering must have been great, as he was. ^^=^^fe .^ THE UPPER ARM OF NARRAGANSETT BAY, CALLED PROVIDENCE RIVER. IN THEDISTANCE IS THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE obliged to take to the wilderness in the depth of a NewEngland winter, at a time when he was in poor found a refuge in the wigwams of the Indians, towhom he aspired to be a teacher, and he had no meansof subsistence but their coarse and scanty fare; yet henot only lived but became physically strong, bearing foryears the brunt of a great enterprise, the fatigues ofstrenuous missions and long journeys, and the harassingcares of a community often ungratefuland nearly alwaysunwise. He lived to a great age and saw the handful From Providence to Cowesett 17 that he planted in the wilderness grow to a mightyharvest. It is a fact that Williams not only retained trade re-lations with the colony from which he had been exiled,but was in close correspondence and upon terms ofpersonal friendship
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