An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . ren while the sunand moon should endure. A friendly display like this is by nomeans unusual in the first opening of intercourse between civilizedand savage nations ; but seldom, indeed, does it long continue unbroken, or fail even of being succeeded by an embittered afforded at least one happy exception. Her foundercontinued with this savage people on terms not
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . ren while the sunand moon should endure. A friendly display like this is by nomeans unusual in the first opening of intercourse between civilizedand savage nations ; but seldom, indeed, does it long continue unbroken, or fail even of being succeeded by an embittered afforded at least one happy exception. Her foundercontinued with this savage people on terms not only of peace, but ofintimate union ; he visited them in their villages, he slept in theirwigwams; they welcomed him almost as a brother. Forty yearsafterwards they said to the governor. Sir William Keith, as thehighest possible comphment:— AVe esteem and love you as if William Penn himself. What was still more wonderful, thecolonists, though they had to struggle with many uncongenial spiritsin their own b6dy, succeeded in maintaining good terms with the na-tives ; and for nearly a century, the Indian tomahawk was neverlifted against a people who would have considered it unlawful toeturn the 37 2B 290 PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE.
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