. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... lesof European manu-facture. Squanto was the faithful friend of the col-ony to the end of his life, and was regardedby the Pilgrims as a special instrument sentof God for their good beyond their expecta-tion.* He taught them the Indian method ofplanting corn and putting fish with it to fer-tilize the ground, and where to find and howto catch fish and game. He showed themhis friendship in many ways, and was duringhis lifetime the interpreter of the
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... lesof European manu-facture. Squanto was the faithful friend of the col-ony to the end of his life, and was regardedby the Pilgrims as a special instrument sentof God for their good beyond their expecta-tion.* He taught them the Indian method ofplanting corn and putting fish with it to fer-tilize the ground, and where to find and howto catch fish and game. He showed themhis friendship in many ways, and was duringhis lifetime the interpreter of the Pilgrims on their part were not ungrate-ful to him. On one occasion it was rumored in Ply-mouth that Squanto had been seized by theNarragansetts, and had been put to party of ten men at once marched jmothe forest, and surprised the hut where thechief of the Narragansetts was. Althoughthe tribe could bring five thousand war*riors into the field, the chief was overawedby the determined action of the English,whose firearms gave them a great superi-ority, and Squanto was released his death-bed Squanto, who had been. THE TREATY BETWEEN PLYMOUTH COLONY AND MASSASOIT. carefully nursed by his white friends, askedthe governor to pray that he might go to the Englishmans God in Heaven. Hisdeath was regarded as a serious misfortuneto the colony. The Great Chief Massasoit. Massasoit, whose tribe had been greatlyreduced by pestilence, desired the alliance oithe English as a protection against the Nar»ragansetts, who had escaped the scourge, andwhose chief, Canonicus, was hostile to hiin^ 136 SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. The Narragansetts lived upon the shores ofthe beautiful bay to which they have giventheir name, and were a powerful and warlikerace. Canonicus regarded the English withhostility, and in 1622 sent them as a defiancea bundle of arrows wrapped in the skin of arattlesnake. Governor Bradford received the challengefrom the hands of the chieftains messenger,and stuff
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