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And now another white man's vessel had arrived on the coast, and several of its crew had landed in spite of all that could be done to prevent them. To the great surprise of Massasoit's men, there was an Indian with these palefaces. And that Indian proved to be Squanto, one of the five who had been taken away fifteen years before. This is but a bare outline of what Massasoit told his sons.
"Squaw no speak to brave in council," explained Squanto with an air of shocked propriety; but before he could further explain a bowed and decrepit figure emerged from one of the little huts on the edge of the woods and slowly approached the white men who stepped forward to meet her, desiring Squanto to assure her of welcome.
He went to live with another tribe near by. When the white people came to Plymouth, they settled on the ground where Squanto's people had lived. As he could speak some English, and as all his own tribe were dead, he now came to live with the white people. The people at Plymouth did not know how to plant the corn they had found, but Squanto taught them.
Samoset here left the settlers, and Squanto became henceforth their faithful friend and useful interpreter. In your patience possess ye your souls. LUKE, xxi 19.
Tell her that she would do ill to curse us, for we are friends to her and her people." "And ask who was The-White-Fool, and what his story," demanded Standish as Squanto finished rendering the governor's message. "Squanto know that in himself. Every Pokanoket know that," replied Squanto, while Janno muttered gloomily in his own tongue, "All red men know The-White-Fool's curse. All feel it."
He hath doubtless served us a sorry turn by not only dividing himself from the Adventurers, but setting up a rival trading-post of his own," remarked Winslow. "And worse than that is this news Squanto brings in to-day," resumed the governor. "I mean the dealings of those new-comers with the Indians."
This message consisted of a threat which Hobomak well knew he would execute that if, on being liberated, he proceeded to Packanokick, instead of returning to the settlement, he would flay the unhappy Squanto alive, and send his skin and scalp to the white-hearted English, to show them that the red men scorned their interference, and knew how to punish it.
This angered the Indians, and we can well imagine the thoughts that passed through the mind of the boy Philip when he heard that the English had stolen the corn that belonged to a poor Indian, one of his father's friends. The Indians talked the matter over by their camp fire, and little Philip listened to the story as eagerly as he had listened to the story of Squanto six months before.
By tradition still commemorated at Forefathers' Dinner the ration of Indian corn supplied to each person was at one time but five kernels. Still there was always plenty of fish the favorite food of the English and Squanto taught the colonists various Indian methods of catching the "treasures of the sea." With oysters and lobsters they were far from starvation.
The effect of this diabolical proceeding, in causing the defeat of their foes, Coubitant did not do not; and, in spite of his veneration for the English, and his conviction that their deities were more powerful than the Indian demons, Squanto was filled with apprehensions on their account.
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