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Adventure and romance, not flight from suicide, says Author Anderson, was the aim of the swarthy, 21-year-old ex-clerk-farmer-teacher who signed on the Acushnet ("Pequod") at New Bedford one winter day in 1840. Other travelers' accounts (which he shrewdly disparaged) furnished the main basis for the "unvarnished truth" of his South Seas experiences-captivity by Typee tribesmen, cannibalism, "care-killing damsels," Queen Moana's erotic tattooing, the many other wonders which took mid-Victorian readers' breath away...
...case of Uncas was this: in 1635 Connecticut settlers first began to buy land from Uncas,* friendly Pequod who later organized the Mohegans (an offshoot of the Mohicans), became the No. i sachem of Connecticut. In 1659 he sold the English for ?70 nine sq. mi. for the settlement of Norwich. He fought with them against other Indian tribes, horrified pious colonists with ruthless decapitation of his enemies. In 1682 Norwich deeded back to Uncas and "his heirs forever" some 200 acres of land on the edge of town in lieu of ?3 still owing on the original purchase...