Hast thou forgot, when, by Cohannet’s stream,
To curse the strangers every charm was tried.
“But before I pass on, let the reader take notice of a very remarkable particular which was made known to the planters at Plymouth some short space after their arrival; that the Indians, before they came to the English to make friendship with them, got all the Pawaws in the country, who, for three days together, in a horrid and devilish manner, did curse and execrate them with their conjurations, which assembly and service they held in a dark and dismal swamp.”—N. E. Memorial.
How I appeared, and, by the embers’ gleam,
To the hard rock my lance’s point applied,
And scored my mandate.
The inscriptions on the rocks by Taunton river have afforded a subject of much speculation to the antiquary. It would not be strange if the Indians ascribed to them a supernatural origin.
An odor, strange, though not offensive, spread
About him, as he near and nearer drew;