. Indian history for young folks . d still warm, the head split open andthe feet and hands chopped off. Two boys taken with Oldham were res-cued uninjured. This is the first American sea-fight on record. In order to ascertain and punish the instigators of this murder, theEnglish sent a deputation to Canonicus, the Xarraganset sachem, whowas well known to be a just man and a friend to the English. Theyobserved in him much state, great command over his men, and muchwisdom in his answers, clearing himself and his neighbors of the murder,and offering assistance for revenge of it, yet upon very saf
. Indian history for young folks . d still warm, the head split open andthe feet and hands chopped off. Two boys taken with Oldham were res-cued uninjured. This is the first American sea-fight on record. In order to ascertain and punish the instigators of this murder, theEnglish sent a deputation to Canonicus, the Xarraganset sachem, whowas well known to be a just man and a friend to the English. Theyobserved in him much state, great command over his men, and muchwisdom in his answers, clearing himself and his neighbors of the murder,and offering assistance for revenge of it, yet upon very safe and wary con-ditions. An expedition under Governor Endicott was sent against the Block Island Indians and the Pequots, the perpetrators of Oldhams murder, which ravaged their villages and destroyed their crops, and on its return doing the same along the Narraganset shore. Forty of the natives were killed and wounded in a skirmish. At Saybrook, near the mouth of the Connecticut, a fort had been built. THE NEW ENGLAND INDIANS. 117. GOVERNOR ENDICOTT. and Captain Lion Gardner placed in command. He condemned this un-wise action of Endicott in a letter to Governor Winthrop of Massachu-setts, in which he says, You came hither to raise these wasps about myears, and then you will take wing and flee away. He and his little gar-rison of less than one hundred had all they could do, he said, to fightCaptain Hunger. He was right; so far from being overawed, the Pe-quots sought the alliance of their neighbors the Narragansets and theMohegans; a state of constant hostility was produced, and the fort was fora long time beleaguered. The persevering energy and intrepidity of oneman caused the dissolution of this formidable conspiracy. When Roger Williams, the famous apostle of civil and religious lib- 118 INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS. erty in America, was in midwinter exiled from Massachusetts, he fled toRhode Island, where he was kindly received by the Indians. lie was wellacquainted with t
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