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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 5 (search)
ys a capital letter in his name, while human savages had none, in these early narratives.) When the English pursued the Indians, they ran away might and main. E. W. Pierce's Indian Biography. The next interview was a stormier one; four days later, those same Pilgrims were asleep on board the shallope on the morning of December 8tle in which old Indian men and women, the wounded and the helpless, were burned alive, said proudly, This day we brought five hundred Indian souls to hell. E. W. Pierce's Indian Biography, 22. But the end of all was approaching. In 1623, Massasoit sent a messenger to Plymouth to say that he was ill, and Governor Bradford lved in his mouth, he swallowed the juice of it; whereat those that were about him much rejoiced, saying that he had not swallowed anything in two days before. E. W. Pierce's Indian Biography, 25. Then Winslow tells how he nursed the sick chief, sending messengers back to the governor for a bottle of drink, and some chickens f