Beadle's Dime Novels No. 98 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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THE ' TREATY. 13 when they are tired. Perhaps they were wrong to think so. Of course they were, since the gray-heads say it; and yet, as I look about me, what do I see? I stand upon the land of the Wampanoags, and it is not the same. When the feet of ‘Mennawan last pressed it, (he was young then) a tree grew upon the spot where he stands, and he killed a deer under its branches. If Mennawan were a brave of the Pequods, and not a chief, he might think as they do, that the Yengees score the earth too hard with their axes.” “ Chief, what mean you ?” “Tt is not well that men should come into the hunting- grounds of the Indians, who will not let the trees grow. If they cut away all the trees in the woods, a chief must travel many a weary mile before he can kill a deer. He would have hard work to feed his hungry children, his squaws and pap- pooses.”” | “You are wandering, chief. Speak to “the point. What shall be done with the men who have killed our brothers ?” “It is the first time since the Pequods were a nation, that they had to speak to another for their deeds. But let it be so. Sassacus would have peace; and he is chief sachem of the tribe. If a man of the Pequods has done a wrong to the Yengees, they shall suffer for it.” “ Sassacus says well. He is a great chief. Our captain has told us what we ought to do, to protect ourselves from these outrages. Mr. Secretary, by your favor, read to the council the articles we have drawn up. The Secretary rose, taking up a parchment which lay be- fore him. Upon this was written the articles of an agree- ment, in substance as follows: The Pequods shall deliver to the English all who have been concerned in the murder of the two English captains or of the Weeks family. And in future, in case outrages were committed, the chiefs were to deliver all concerned. The next article gave up to the English all that portion of land lying within the limits of the colony of Connecticut; and they were to treat the settlers kindly in all cases, and not make war upon the Indidn allies of the English. The third article gave to Englishmen desiring to trade with the tribe, perfect security at all times, while jn the land of the Pequods, connicloooks.com