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Whenever an Indian, inspired by hatred, revenge, or ambition for fame among his fellows, aimed to get within bow-shot length, and in doing so dis- 1 78 DOOM OF WASHAKIM. closed enough of his person to be covered with sight and bead, an Indian fell or hurriedly left his post disabled, and as the white men dodged from tree to tree, but little annoyed by bowmen kept at such distance, the fugitives poured out of the Castle, the women and children in the van, while the planters brought up the rear, ...regardless of consequences to themselves as they made a breastwork of their bodies against the nearly spent arrows that were showered upon them. It was now that Parson Meekman began to exhibit in bold relief the other extreme of his dual nature, hitherto manifest chiefly in words. He had, times without num- ber, succored individual savages in distress, had commended them to God in earnest, heart-felt prayer, bound up their wounds, fed their hungry with an unsparing hand, had nursed their sick and done for them manifold little kind- nesses.
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