Beadle's Dime Novels No. 98 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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MIANTONOMAH. 15 skin with powder and shot and returned it. The sachem thought better of it, and made) a treaty with the English. _ From that time they had been friendly to the English, and the treaty with Canonicus had been continued under Mianto- nomah,, » | “Sachem of the Narragansett,” said Mennawan, proudly, “the chief. of. the Pequods never yet met the man whom he dared not look in,the face. . But why should he boast? He is not unknewn; his deeds were not done in a corner. He has struck those who were his enemies with a heavy hand. Many scalps hang in his lodge.” | | “And is the name of Miantonomah never heard in the wigwams of the: Pequods?”’ asked the sachem, laying his hand upon his arm. “ Ménnawan can not lie. The hand of the sachem has been in battle, and many Pequods have died;by his weapon. Many have been slain-upon both sides, It is well then, since the old chief has told us that we are brothers, (and if the white men are our brothers, whose blood alone is like ours, surely we, whose skiu,and blood are both dark, ought to be 80,) that we make peace.” | “The land of the Narragansett is very wide,” replied Miantonomah. “It is more thap a bird’s flight from this to the Pequods. Why then should we quarrel, since both have enough. There are deer in the land of the Pequods as well as in that of the Narragansetts, We are ready to be friends of our red brothers,” “It is many years, Miantonomah, since the Yengees landed upon these shores. The red-men were happy. They fought exch other when they were angry, and made peace when they ~ were tired. The fish they drew from the great Salt Lake and the rivers, gave. them food. Want never!came into their wigwams. These strangers came, When Canonicus sent them a bundle of arrows they sent back powder and shot. We did not know what powder and shot were then. We have learned since. But the Pequods have not been friendly to the Yengees. They were foolish enough to think that the land was their own, and the Yengees had no right to drive them from their own land. They were wrong; the Narragan- setts have taught them better, and they ought to be glad.” Pf conicloooks.com