Word: squanto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were "industrious and frugall," they had nearly foundered. In America they would certainly have starved without a cache of Indian corn, which they providentially and promptly appropriated. "Sure it was God's good providence," wrote Bradford. When the corn was used up, their first Indian friend and convert, Squanto, providentially appeared. Captured by British sailors some years earlier, Squanto had lived in London and spoke perfect English. He had returned to America six months before the Mayflower. Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to plant their corn in small, properly spaced hills and how to fertilize each hill with...
...blandly ignored the ship's doctor, Giles Heale. For medical advice they depended solely on one of their own members, Deacon Samuel Fuller. Result: almost every day somebody died. When at last the Mayflower sailed back to England, the harvest came in, and a gift of corn from Squanto increased the group ration by another peck of fresh meal. But the seven acres planted by the Pilgrims themselves were a dismal failure. This, said Bradford, was the fault of "ye badness of ye seed, or lateness of ye season, or both, or some other defecte...
...more engaging byways of U. S. history-Sam Houston's ups & downs as a friend of the Cherokees; Mehitabel Wing's wild horseback ride down the shores of the Hudson River to win a reprieve from the British Governor for her husband; the story of Squanto, the helpful Pokanoket Indian who hailed the Pilgrims in English at Plymouth...