Identifier: kingphilip00abbo (find matches)
Title: King Philip
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot, 1805-1877.
Subjects: Philip, Sachem of the Wampanoags, 1676 King Philip's War, 1675-1676 Indians of North America--Biography Indians of North America--Wars--1600-1750 Wampanoag Indians--New England--History New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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(1621. Advance of spring. Sudden appearance of an Indian. Chapter IL Massasoit. MARCH came in like a lion, cold, wet,and stormy; but toward the middle ofthe month the weather changed, and a warmsun and soft southern breezes gave indicationof an early spring. The 16th of the monthwas a remarkably pleasant day, and the colo-nists who were able to bear arms had assem-bled at their rendezvous to complete their mili-tary organization for the working days of springand summer. While thus engaged they saw,to their great suiprise, a solitary Indian ap-preaching. Boldly, and without the slightestappearance of hesitancy, he strode along, en-tered the street of their little village, and di-rected his steps toward the group at the rendez-vous. He was a man of majestic stature, andentirely naked, with the exception of a leathernbelt about his loins, to which there was sus-pended a fringe about nine inches in length.In his hand he held a bow and two arrows.The Indian, with remarkable self-conhdence
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SAMOSET, THE INDIAJT VISITOfi. 1621.) Massasoit. 49 Effects of a plague. and freedom of gait, advanced toward the aston-ished group, and in perfectly intelligible En-glish addressed them witli the words, Wel-come, Englishmen. From this man the eagercolonists soon learned the following facts. Hisname was Samoset. He was one of the cliiefsof a tribe residing near the island of Monhegan,which is at the mouth of Penobscot Bay. Witha great wind, he said that it was but a dayssail from Plymouth, though it required a jour-ney of five days by land. Fishing vessels fromEngland had occasionally visited that region,and he had, by intercourse with them, acquiredsufficient broken English to be able to commu-nicate his ideas. He also informed the Pil-grims that, four years before tlieir arrival, a ter-rible plague had desolated the coast, and thatthe tribe occupying the region upon which theywere settled had been utterly annihilated. Thedead had been left unburied to be devoured bywolves. Thus the

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