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Show Soto decided that the time had arrived for him to terrorize the natives , inspire them with a great respect for the Spash. He attacked the large village v:ith such surprise that, it is said, not a man there was pre pared to fight tha. In some instances, men women and children were slain; and a nlliber of adly wounded persons were allowed to escape for the purpose of creating terror and respect among surrounding natives. 50 as to princess, he kidnapped an Indian after S1e had received him Time after time, lead ,,-lith gifts, and held her as a hostage. the Indians the were thus kidna.pped; men perhaps) (generally Creeks, ing amng ad at times they were tortured for the purpose' of extracting information Hernando De Soto was the Governor of Cuba and the Adelantadb'.) from them. De Leon was later Ylled, it is said, by oe of is own men; of Florida. Georgia, graciously and In body thrown into the muddy waters of the ¥d.ssil3ippi---'f'as this (We may note that De Soto's adventures in fate too bad for such a man? the southeastern,United States were approximately at the same time as Coronado's invasion of New Mexico). and his ' Ene-Ush-American Colonia,l Relations \/ith the Indians In bhe Virginia settlement, beginning ,ii th Newport r s colony at Jamestown in1607, the new-comers were not well received---perhaps such depredations as those of Sir Richard Grenville in l5S5 had not been forgotten and the natives were suspicious of the intruders.' Various methods of dealing with In 1622 the Redmen, perhaps held them in check during the first few years. mf again in 1644, strong Indian uprisings occurred; but by this time the English power had grown too strong for the aborigines; and they were badly defeted, althogh tey had slain perhaps hundreds of the colonists. Fathers found a little trouble at the beginning but this, in part at least may have been occas a Fren ch expedition Shortly before, perhaps coming from a number of the redmen near the location. had During the two or hanged Canada, three years preceding the Pilgrim settlement, a severe plague had decimated the Indians from Maine to Narragansett Bay; and because of this there were Indians In New England, the of teir settlement at ioned by the fact that to cause Pilgrim Plymouth; troutle for the wites. New settlements were soon formed along the coast of Massachusetts Bay, and to Rhode Island was colonized by 1636; and especially in Massachuset the northward. te Indians were forced back into the country inland. Te trouble ,dth the Pequot ,tribe may be mentioned. Hhile they wer-e being pressed westward by the Massachusetts people, they were also being pushed to the eastward by the Dutch of New York In 1637, CC!pt. Mason, who had been in the employ of the Dutch, a lthough an Eng lishman, received considerable assistance from the latter, wo sent him troops. The principal village of the Pequots, near what is now New London, Connecticutt, was attacked one day about daybreak, by Mason and his men. The village consisted As the Indians ruShed out of the tents, of some 70 tents; and these were fired. Rev. Cotton Mather, who had already remarked The soldiers. were the shot they by of the Indians along the eastern coast of Hassachusetts, that the plague had almost, cleared the woods of "t.hoae pernicious creatures", now remarked that on • . the day of Hason' s at tack "no less that 600 Pequot souls had been brought down As his men rushed the Indians at their village, Capt. Mason is said to to hell". have shouted, "God is with us. He laughS his enemies to 'scorn, making them as a Since the redmen were fighting for their very existence and on fiery ovenu• lands that had been teir own, these remarks may seem to uS a bit strong. - The Pequot always power was here broken so they gave little trouble to the whites iater. |
