But if a sluggard and a coward, then
To rove all wretched in the gloom of night.
“They believe that the soules of men and women go to the southwest—their great and good men to Cawtantowit his house, where they have hopes, as the Turks have, of carnal joys. Murtherers, liars, &c., their soules (say they) wander restless abroad.”—Williams’ Key.
This yet unproved and doubted by the best.
The Charter of Pennsylvania was granted in 1681. The philanthropic Penn was preceded by Williams in the adoption of a mild and pacific policy toward the natives. Both seem to have been equally successful.
Ere dark pestilence
Devoured his warriors—laid its hundreds low,
That sachem’s war-whoop roused to his defence