BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY

OF THE

INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA,

FROM ITS FIRST DISCOVERY.

History maketh a young man to be old, withont either wrinkles or gray hairs; privilledging him
with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniencies thereof.

FULLER's Holy War.
They waste us; ay, like April snow

In the warm noon we shrink away;
And fast they follow as we go

Towards the setting day,
Till they shall fill the land, and we
Are driven into the western sea. -- BRYANT.

BY SAMUEL G. DRAKE,

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NORTHERN ANTIQUARIES AT COPENHAGEN, HONORARY MEMBER
OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE AND NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETIES, AND CORRESPONDING

SECRETARY OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC, GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY.

TENTH EDITION.

BOSTON:

BENJAMIN B. MUSSEY, & Co.

M.DCCC. XLVIII.