Young folks' history of the United States . all as confid-ing as Samoset. He remained one night with the set-tlers ; and, when he went away, they gave him a knife,a bracelet, and a ring; and he promised to return soon,and bring other Indians with beaver-skins for sale. Ere Massasoitlong he returned, and made the Englishmen acquaintedwith a chief, called Massasoit, who ruled more men thanany one in that region. He soon made a treaty withthe colonists in behalf of his tribe ; and this treatylasted more than fifty years. Massasoit was thesachem of the Wampanoags, a tribe that had beenvery importa
Young folks' history of the United States . all as confid-ing as Samoset. He remained one night with the set-tlers ; and, when he went away, they gave him a knife,a bracelet, and a ring; and he promised to return soon,and bring other Indians with beaver-skins for sale. Ere Massasoitlong he returned, and made the Englishmen acquaintedwith a chief, called Massasoit, who ruled more men thanany one in that region. He soon made a treaty withthe colonists in behalf of his tribe ; and this treatylasted more than fifty years. Massasoit was thesachem of the Wampanoags, a tribe that had beenvery important, though it had just been greatly reduced 131 ^2 yOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. The Pil-grims visitMassasoit. by disease ; and his friendship was of the greatest valueto the Pilgrims. Once the Pilgrims sent an expedition to Massasoitslodge to visit him. The messengers carried a horse-mans coat of red cotton for the king, and beads andjack-knives for his chiefs; and Massasoit put on his redcoat, and treated them kindly. At another time, when. WELCOME, ENGLISHMEN 1 a friendly Indian, named Squanto, was said to havebeen killed by the Narragansetts, a party of ten colo-nists marched into the forest, and surrounded the hutwhere the chief of this tribe was; and, though he hadfive thousand fighting men at his command, they com-pelled him to leave Squanto unhurt. The Indians hadnot yet learned the use of fire-arms \ and their arrows THE INDIAN WARS. 133 did not put them on an equality with the well-armedEnglishmen. Afterwards the chief of the Narragan- Governorsetts sent to Governor Bradford a bundle of arrows reply to thewrapped in the skin of a rattlesnake. The governor I^^^i^^ the skin with powder and shot, and sent itback; and the Indians were afraid to keep it, andthreatened no more. But the Pilgrims paid for allthey obtained from the natives; and, when they finallywent to war, it was to defend another colony, whichhad treated the Indians badly. In this war, underCapt. Mile
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