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After dinner the Indians made arrangements for one of their most imposing dances. It was a barbarian cotillon, performed by eight partners in the presence of admiring hundreds. Queen Wetamoo and her husband, Quinnapin, were conspicuous in this dance. He was dressed in a white linen shirt, with a broad border of lace around the skirt. To this robe silver buttons were profusely attached.
Wetamoo was not old. She was in the prime of life, and as an Indian was beautiful. Not counting her faithless husband, only one of her Pocassets had abandoned her. He was that same Alderman who betrayed and killed King Philip. In the beginning Queen Wetamoo had mustered three hundred warriors. She stuck close to King Philip, and fought in his ranks.
Captain Church had hardly arrived at Plymouth before the wonderful successes of Philip so encouraged the Indians that Wetamoo, with alacrity and burning zeal, joined the coalition; and even Awashonks could not resist the inclinations of her warriors, but was also, with reluctance, compelled to unite with Philip. War was now raging in all its horrors.
Here let us close the melancholy story of the warrior queen Wetamoo, who as the companion-in-arms of her sachem sought to avenge her husband's death, as well as to save her country from the foreigner. However, Wetamoo and Philip together dragged the once mighty Narragansetts down. This brings to the surface the tale of Canonchet, the big-hearted.
Appearance of the embassadors. Exciting conference. Rage of Captain Church. Awashonks to remain friendly. The Pocasset tribe. Wetamoo joins Philip. Indian warfare. The colonists much scattered. An illustration. Heroic woman. Dispatching the Indians. Succor arrives. Defiance of the English. Horrible sight. Destruction of corn. An ambush. Attempt to surround them. A retreat.
The English clergyman's wife was assigned to Queen Wetamoo as her dressing-maid. The Indian slaveholders paid but little regard to family relations. Mrs. Rowlandson's daughter Mary was sold for a gun by a praying Indian, who first chanced to grasp her. The Christian Indians joined in this war against the whites, and shared in all the emoluments of the slave traffic which it introduced.
He wore white cotton stockings, with shillings dangling and clinking from the garters. A turban composed of girdles of wampum ornamented his head, while broad belts of wampum passed over his shoulders and encircled his waist. Wetamoo was dressed for the ball in a horseman's coat of coarse, shaggy cloth. This was beautifully decorated with belts of wampum from the waist upward.
The United Colonies of New England. A confederacy. Indian conspiracy. Indian outrages. Opposition of the English to war. Death of Massasoit. Changing names. Sons of Massasoit. Wetamoo. Decline of Indian power. Mutual wrongs. Alexander summoned to court. He promises to attend. Departure of Major Winslow. He finds Alexander. Preparations for the arrest. Rage of Alexander. The forced compliance.
Rowlandson did not appreciate the niceties of Indian etiquette. Wetamoo was a queen, Quinnapin was only her husband merely the Prince Albert of Queen Victoria. As there was but one dish from which both the queen and her husband were to be served, the haughty Wetamoo deemed herself insulted, and refused to eat a morsel. Philip and his warriors soon departed to make attacks upon the settlements.
Of Queen Wetamoo's three hundred warriors, twenty-six remained; they were betrayed by one of their own number, and captured, and Wetamoo was drowned in flight. These deaths saddened Philip, but the many desertions blackened his horizon and he knew that he was doomed. By midsummer he was fleeing from spot to spot, with Captain Church hard after.
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