Uncas and Miantonomoh: A Historical Discourse, Delivered at Norwich, (Conn.,) on the Fourth Day of July, 1842, on the Occasion of the Erection of a Monument to the Memory of Uncas, the White Man's Friend, and First Chief of the Mohegans |
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Page 11 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Page 83 - This heart (laying his hand upon his breast) is not mine, but yours; I have no men; they are all yours; command me any difficult thing, I will do it; I will not believe any Indians' words against the English; if any man shall kill an Englishman, I will put him to death, were he never so dear to me.
Page 67 - It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire and the streams of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the stink and scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof to God...
Page 197 - I had heard this story, and did not entirely believe it; for young as I was, I already partook in the prevailing contempt for Indians. In the beginning of May, the annual election of the principal officers of the (then) colony was held at Hartford, the capital. My father attended officially, and it was customary for the chief of the Mohegans also to attend. " Zachary had succeeded to the rule of his tribe. My father's house was situated about midway on the road between Mohegan and Hartford, and the...
Page 198 - One day the mischievous thought struck me, to try the sincerity of the old man's temperance. The family were seated at dinner, and there was excellent home-brewed beer on the table. I addressed the old chief—'* Zachary, this beer is excellent; will you taste it?
Page 50 - Mason, but I will first see it, therefore send you now twenty men to the Bass river, for there went yesternight six Indians in a "canoe thither ; fetch them now dead or alive, and then you shall go with Maj. Mason, else not.
Page 109 - ... our fathers had plenty of deer and skins, our plains were full of deer, as also our woods, and of turkies, and our coves full of fish and fowl. But these English having gotten our land, they with scythes cut down the grass, and with axes fell the trees ; their cows and horses eat the grass, and their hogs spoil our clam banks, and we shall all be starved...
Page 20 - The Indians in these Parts had newly, even about a Year or Two before, been visited with such a prodigious Pestilence ; as carried away not a Tenth, but Nine Parts of Ten (yea 'tis said Nineteen of Twenty) among them : so that the Woods were almost cleared of those pernicious Creatures to make Room for a better Growth.
Page 25 - ... ravages of disease, and the defection of their tributaries, must have greatly diminished their strength, even before the war of 1676, and this accounts for the difference in the statements. Roger Williams (Key 28,) observes : " In the Narragansett country, (which are the chief people in the land,) a man shall come to many towns, some bigger, some lesser ; it may be a dozen in twenty miles travel.
Page 110 - Indians with an hundred of your own here ; and when you see the three fires that will be made forty days hence, in a clear night, then do as we, and the next day fall on and kill men, women, and children, but no cows, for they will serve to eat till our deer be increased again.