. A history of the United States . AN INDIAN CHIEF.(From a drawing in Hariots Narrative, 1585.) JOHN ELIOT. 49 in the early part of the seventeenth century; but accustomedto roam from place to place in search of game, they consid-ered the hunting grounds their own, and naturally resistedseizure of them by the whites.^ 47. John Eliot. (1661.) — A few of the settlers wished toconvert the Indian to Christianity and to better his these was JohnEliot, known as theApostle to the Indi-ans, who translated theBible for their book, one of theearliest literary worksin America
. A history of the United States . AN INDIAN CHIEF.(From a drawing in Hariots Narrative, 1585.) JOHN ELIOT. 49 in the early part of the seventeenth century; but accustomedto roam from place to place in search of game, they consid-ered the hunting grounds their own, and naturally resistedseizure of them by the whites.^ 47. John Eliot. (1661.) — A few of the settlers wished toconvert the Indian to Christianity and to better his these was JohnEliot, known as theApostle to the Indi-ans, who translated theBible for their book, one of theearliest literary worksin America, was pub-lished at Cambridge,Massachusetts, in 1663,the New Testamenthaving been publishedin 1661. At HarvardCollege, too, there wasprovision made for in-struction of the Indianyouth, but these thingswere the exception, es-pecially in the earliestdaj^ AN INDIAN WOMAN.(From a drawing in Hariots Narrative, 1585.) 48. Situation and Growth of the English Colonies. (1700.) — The English had gained possession of the choicest parts of 1 When the great amount of land which is necessary to support man in thehunter stage is considered, the above estimate does not seem out of the to a rather common notion, it is likely that the Indians are nowslowly increasing in numbers. According to the Census of 1890 there were,exclusive of Alaska, 249,273 Indians in the United States. 50 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. the new world; advantages of situation, climate, fertility ofsoil, abundance of navigable streams and safe harbors weretheirs; in short, everything which might help the develop-ment of a hardy, industrious, and energetic race. There isno area in either of the Americas, or for that matter in theworld outside of Europe, where it would have been possibleto plant English colonies, that would have been found sosuitable for the purpo
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