[Footnote 11: Canonicus (Ka-non'i-kus).]
[Footnote 12: Narragansett (Nar'a-gan'set): see map, paragraph 84.]
71. The new settlers; trouble with the Indians in their neighborhood;
Captain Standish's fight with the savages.--By and by more emigrants
came from England and settled about twenty-five miles north of
Plymouth, at what is now called Weymouth. The Indians in that
neighborhood did not like these new settlers, and they made up their
minds to come upon them suddenly and murder them.
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