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Title: Outdoor life and Indian stories : making open air life attractive to young Americans by telling them all about woodcraft, signs and signaling, the stars, fishing, camping ... : also stories of noted hunters and scouts, great Indians and warriors ... all of them true and interesting
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916
Subjects: Indians of North America Camping
Publisher: (Philadelphia? : s.n.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ared, but Canonicus was a true friend of the exile,and they were afraid to offend the chief. Finally, he yieldedto the prayers of Williams, and refused those of the Pequots,who entered upon the campaign alone, and, as a consequence,suffered destruction at the hands of the colonists. In thisdreadful work the whites had the help of several hundredNarragansetts. Another great Indian leader now appears on the stage.He was Uncas, who was born a Pequot, and was one of morethan a score of the leaders of that unfortunate nation. Duringsome domestic troubles, he rebelled against his sachem andbecame the head of a strong Schism. This was just beforethe opening of the Pequot war. The territories of the Pequotswere divided, and the part known as Mohegan fell to Uncas,who aided the English in their overthrow of the Pequot^It is said that he felt pity for the dreadful misfortune? 7o ADVENTURES IN NEW ENGLAND of his old friendsand neighbors,and, in morelthan one in-stance, did whathe could to shield
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them irom the fury oftheir conquerors.Moreover, he gave pro-tection to a number ofsettlements, Norwichbeing one of the townsthus favored. A PEQUOT MASSACRE THE INDIANS CHALLENGE TO FIGHT 71 In 1638, the magistrates at Hartford asked Uncas andMiantonomah to come thither and agree upon the division ofthe two hundred Pequot captives (not including women andchildren). In the division eighty went to the Narragansettchief, twenty to a neighboring chief, while a hundred wereturned over to Uncas. He and Miantonomah had long beenjealous of each other, the feeling being strong on the part oithe Narragansett. The two leaders pledged themselves topeace, but their mutual hatred was too deep for either to keepthe letter or spirit of the agreement. Miantonomah was ambi-tious, and wished to become ruler of all the New EnglandIndians. Uncas belonged to the branch with which the Nar-ragansetts had always been at enmity, and the Narragansettleader determined to kill him on the first chance, believingtha

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