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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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notwholly due to their military skill. Many were great orators,and not a few showed noble traits of character. The case ofMassasoit, therefore, is the more remarkable, for no man notgifted by nature with fine ability and tact, could have heldpeace for so long a time among the fierce tribes, not onlyunder his direct rule, but that belonged to the confederaciessurrounding his own people. Soon after the signing of thetreaty, one of Massasoits sachems tried to start a rebellionagainst his sovereign. With the help of the bold MilesStandish, the scheme was brought to naught, and the example 5 66 NEW ENGIATttJ of M^ssasoit led nine other sachems to come to Plymouthand sign a treaty of submission to the English king. In 1623, news reached Plymouth that the great sachemwas mortally ill. Governor Bradford sent at once two of hispeople and a friendly Indian to the chief, who was foundnear death. No doubt he would have soon passed away, butfor the prompt action of his white friends, who gave him
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MILES STANDISH AND HIS SOLDIERS ENTERING THE INDIAN COUNTRY cordials and took such measures that he was soon restored torugged health, and lived many years afterwards. Massasoitwas very grateful all his life for this kindness. He told hisvisitors of a plot that was on foot among the Massachusettstribe and several others to massacre the English settlers atWessagusset. He urged that sharp measures be taken againstthe plottersr and Captain Standish did so with such vigor EELFIH& AH INDIAN CHIEF 67 that the evil men were terrified, many of them killed, and theperil ended. In 1632, Massasoit was set upon by a party of Narragansetts, and fled for his life to an English house near athand. As soon as news of his danger reached Plymouth,Captain Standish with a small armed force was sent to aid thebrave chief in his danger. It did not take the man that neverfeared very long to scatter the Narragansetts and to rescue,the good friend of the English from his great dangerAs Massasoit grew in ye

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