an instant hee

hath showed a firme peece of ice to flote in the middest of the

bowle

in

the presence of the

vulgar people, which doubtless

was done by the agility of Satan his consort." But he was something more than a juggler his ability as a Gookin wrote of him warrior and as a ruler is acknowledged. " He lived to a in 1675 very great age, as I saw him alive at ;

:

Pawtucket when he was about one hundred and twenty years old." Schoolcraft argues that the time when Gookin saw him

was in 1648, and hence that he was one hundred years old when the English first purchased land from him. He was converted until the a Eliot in and continued Christian 1648, professing by In 1660, when about one hundred and time of his death. thirty years old,

he called his tribe around him and delivered his

"

"

The occasion," says Schoolcraft, filled all with sorrow, in spite of Indian stoicism. PASSACONNAWAY was

farewell speech.

deeply affected, and his voice, tremulous with age and emotion, was musical and powerful a splendid remnant of that

still

whose power and beauty, in the fullness and vigor of manhood, had soothed or excited the passions of assembled savages, and

moulded them to suit the purposes of the speaker.

"

" to the words of

I am your father. an old oak, that has withstood the storms of more than an hundred winters. Leaves and branches have been stripped from