This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...shore. It was the custom of the Indians to bury distinguished persons of their own tribe with the head elevated to nearly a sitting posture, and to encase the body in a stone box. "The white man must not take it from my people; but let my good brother give to them the Island Manwallaminh and may the dove of peace ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...shore. It was the custom of the Indians to bury distinguished persons of their own tribe with the head elevated to nearly a sitting posture, and to encase the body in a stone box. "The white man must not take it from my people; but let my good brother give to them the Island Manwallaminh and may the dove of peace descend, and hover over the people of my fathers and our white neighbors forever!" A saddening wail, mingled with murmurs of discontent, rose upon the still air, and Manatamany essayed to give utterance to these incoherent mutterings; but the shouts of the colonists drowned his voice: "Winona must not, shall not die! She shall live to bless us and you! We ask no sacrifice; we only ask, that if it please Manatamany, Winona may be adopted as our sister, and be to us, as to you, a princess and 'guardian angel/" This interesting event proved most auspicious; years of uninterrupted friendship followed, and, indeed, its influence was never entirely lost upon either the natives or the colonists. The settlement increased in numbers, and amity reigned, and an apparent desire to benefit the condition of each by the other manifested itself upon all occasions. How easily this policy might have been continued, and how glorious would have been its results! All that was now needed was honesty of purpose, and a little forbearance. How readily on all occasions might the truths of the Christian religion be introduced among a people who are strangers to its teachings, if its beautiful precepts were practised by those desiring its promulgation! Winona had become to the colony an object of love and veneration, and continued to be the idol of her people; and when Hendrick visited the settlement again, he found the praises of Winona on every tongue. H...
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