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5o _Vhiting Family.
them when the Pilgrims needed corn and furs:
• and he always frightened and dazzled them by
the fierceness of his fury, and the recklessness
of his courage. They saw that he was a 'lit-
tle man,' but they learned by sad experience
that he was a 'great captain.' We read of
one terrible hand-to-hand fight with four Indi.
ans who were treacherous enemies, and whom
he locked into a room with himself and three
of his own men, and fought till three Indians
were killed,--the fourth was saved to be hanged
and of the challenging sachems to single
combat, which challenge the sachems hastily
declined, and retired as soon as possible. He
asked for only eight men to subdue all the Indians
of Massachusetts. When the mad revels
at Merry Mount had become too outrageous to
be borne, and Morton scouted admonitions and
defied authority, Capt. Standish was sent to
take him by force. Morton was sur,'ounded by
all his company, and had sworn he would never
be taken alive; but when the little captain
marched up alone into the very jaws of death,
as it seemed, his magnificent courage serving