er his warriors.
This is enough for thee, O hole, to remember. Forget not lest thou be
ashamed."

While the Pequot chief was speaking, the Paniese paid the strictest
attention, evidently striving to fasten the speech in his memory. It
was a custom common among the natives, though witnessed by the Knight
and Joy for the first time, whereby, on the same principle that more
civilized communities erect monuments to perpetuate the memory of
events, the Indians transmitted to posterity matters of interest. The
hole was usually dug either by the side of some traveled path or on
the spot where the event desired to be commemorated took place. They
who passed by naturally inquired into its meaning, and the facts,
known to few at first, became of public notoriety.

When the ceremony was completed, the Sagamore of the Pequots, as if
unwilling by further words to confuse the record, turned away in
silence, and took his solitary way through the forest, to seek the
seat of his tribe.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

Deserted at his utmost need
By those his former bounty fed,
On the bare earth, exposed, he lies.

DRYDEN.

The colonists were exasperated at the breaking of the prison, justly
concluding that it was not entirely the work of Indians,
notwithstanding Bars, faithful to the impression made on him by the
gold pieces, stoutly maintained such to be the fact; and that Cowlson
was unable to contradict him. But it was, after all, only suspicion--a
suspicion, too, that pointed at various persons. While some, with a
lucky sagacity, ascribed the violence done their authority to the
Knight, as a leader; there were those who suspected others, of whom
they would gladly be rid. For, however desirous the great bulk of the
colonists were that only they of their own moral habits and modes of
thinking should be connected with their enterprise, it was impossible
completely to exclude the obnoxious. Some would creep in, and the
colony resembled a draught of fishes from the rivers in the spring,
when the schools are running; wherein, although the great majority are
shad or salmon, occasional intruders of other scales and stripes are
found. This little minority were watched with Argus eyes--every
transgression being visited with exemplary punishment--the hand of
Justice being made heavier by two considerations, viz: difference of
opinion, and a desire to drive away recusants, who were regarded as
vessels doomed to destruction, and whose