[92]. In the Bloody Tenet such phrases as these are repeatedly applied to Mr. Cotton: “I speak with honorable respect for the answerer”—“the worthy answerer”—“a man incomparably too worthy for such a service.”
[93]. Baylies’ History of Plymouth, vol. i. chap. 4.
[94]. 2 His. Col. vol. ix. pp. 235, 236.
[95]. Key, Introduction.
[96]. Key, ch. 21.
[97]. The remark of Tacitus, respecting the German tribes, is true of the Indians: “Reges̄ ex nobilitate, Duces ex virtute sumunt. Nec Regibus infinita aut libera potestas, et Duces exemplo potius quam imperio; si prompti, si conspicui, si ante aciem agant, admiratione præsunt.” De Mor. Ger. c. vii.
[98]. Key, ch. 22.
[99]. Encyclopædia Americana, art. Indians.
[100]. Hutchinson, vol. i. p. 411.
[101]. Roger Williams says, “I have known many of them run between fourscore or an hundred miles in a summer’s day, and back in two days.” Key, ch. 11.