The Swedish settlements on the Delaware, their history and relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638-1664, with an account of the South, the New Sweden, and the American companies, and the efforts of Sweden to regain their colony . »-»4^ HuV, T * i^>* ft j n,». i r-~. fJU<M& mv^ Indian deed. Translated below, i> 756. Original preserved in N. S. I. (R. A.), Stockholm. Relations with the Indians. 565 The land-deeds were thereupon brought forth (although therewas only a part of them at hand, the rest [being] in Stock-holm), but only the names signed to them were read. Whent
The Swedish settlements on the Delaware, their history and relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638-1664, with an account of the South, the New Sweden, and the American companies, and the efforts of Sweden to regain their colony . »-»4^ HuV, T * i^>* ft j n,». i r-~. fJU<M& mv^ Indian deed. Translated below, i> 756. Original preserved in N. S. I. (R. A.), Stockholm. Relations with the Indians. 565 The land-deeds were thereupon brought forth (although therewas only a part of them at hand, the rest [being] in Stock-holm), but only the names signed to them were read. Whenthe savages heard their names, they were much pleased, butwhen anyone was mentioned, who was dead, they bent downtheir heads. A defensive league was also made, the Indianspromising that they would regard the enemies of the Swedes astheir own enemies and that they would report any approachingdanger, which they might by chance hear of. But although theywere well satisfied with the Swedes, yet they remarked thatthey had received sickness from the ship through which theyfeared that all their people would perish. Fire had been seenaround the vessel at night and the savages believed that an evilspirit had come in the ship. A chief, sitting on a table, askedfor a boat for two medicine-men, who shou
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