Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ike a bedstead, clothed in arobe of raccoon skins. On each side of him sat a young girl of six-teen or eighteen years, and beyond them a double row of men andwomen, their heads and shoulders painted red and adorned withfeathers. A queen served the prisoner with water to wash his hands,and a bunch of feathers on which to dry them ; a feast was spreadbefore him as if he were an honored friend and welcome guest, forsuch was the Indian treatment of those who presently were to be ledout to die. This ceremonious and hospitable reception was followed by a briefconsultation between the king and his chief men. Two great stones 282 FIRST ENGLISH SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA. (Chap. XL were then brought in, to which Smith was dragged, and his head laidupon them. The executioners stood ready to beat out his is said to braius with their chibs, but at this critical moment, Poca-hontas, the Kings dearest daughter, when no intreaty could prevaile, got his head in her arms, and laid her owne vpon his to saue
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