The coming of the peoples . tered in every direction, half of them living withthe Indians. Standish wasted little time. The men werebrought back to Wessagusset—^by the scruffs oftheir necks, if they would come no other way—and the settlement was organized for he whirled upon the Indians with such speedand power that the tribes were terrorized. Heavoided bloodshed as much as possible, prefer-ring to frighten than to kiU. At the cost of notmore than a score of Indians slain, he convincedthe tribes that it was perilous to meddle with theWar Chief of the Whites. Westons men were broug
The coming of the peoples . tered in every direction, half of them living withthe Indians. Standish wasted little time. The men werebrought back to Wessagusset—^by the scruffs oftheir necks, if they would come no other way—and the settlement was organized for he whirled upon the Indians with such speedand power that the tribes were terrorized. Heavoided bloodshed as much as possible, prefer-ring to frighten than to kiU. At the cost of notmore than a score of Indians slain, he convincedthe tribes that it was perilous to meddle with theWar Chief of the Whites. Westons men were brought back to Plymouthand thence sent home. Weston arrived a fewweeks later and fell into the hands of the In-dians. The tribes were too much afraid of Stand-ish to dare to keep their prisoner. He was re-leased and taken to Plymouth, whence the Pil-grims shipped him to England by the first boat. That spring of 1623, fearing the results of an-other summer of communism, Bradford threwthe Merchant Adventurers agreement to the. THE PILGRIM endeavor .aid such a„ „ll^;^dVeLr;ir;i?enr?KS?l;;fl-;^^reK The „.^^kt of: Cearjcs foH CffclJ ^
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