Identifier: indianhistoryfor00drak (find matches)
Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of them camerushing in, painted half black, half red, in the house where I lay; roundabout him these fiends danced a pretty while; then each, with a rattle, be-gan, at ten oclock in the morning, to sing about the fire, which they en-vironed witli a circle of meal, and afterwards, a foot or two from that,at the end of each song, laid down two or three grains of wheat, con-tinuing this order till they have included six hundred or seven hundredin a half-circle, and, after that, two or three more circles in like manner,a hands-breadth from the others; that done, at each song they put be-tween every three, two, or five grains a little stick, so continuing, as anold woman her paternoster. One, disguised with a great skin, his head hung round with littleskins of weasels and other vermin, with a coronet of feathers on his head,painted as ugly as possible, came skipping in with a fearful yell, and a rattlein his hand. At the end of each song he made many signs and demon VIRGINIA COLONIZED. 95
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POCAHONTAS SHIELDS HIM FROM THEIR tLUHS. strations, with strange and vehement actions; great cakes of deer suet,deer, and tobacco he cast in the fire. Their howling would continue tillsix oclock in the evening ere they would depart. Three days they used thisceremony, the meaning whereof was to show if I intended them well or no. 96 INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS. • Each morning, in the coldest frosts, the principal, to the number ofTwenty r thirty, assembled themselves in a circle a good distance from thetown, where they told me they consulted where to hunt the next day. Sofat they fed me that I much doubted they intended to have sacrificed meto the power they worship. To cure the sick, a man with a rattle, andextreme howling, shouting, singing, and such violent gestures and anticactions, labors over the patient. In passing over the water in foul weatherthey offer tobacco to their god to conciliate his favor. Death they lamentwith great sorrow and weeping; their kings they b

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