English: The Indians had preserved an unbroken peace with the Virginians of twenty-three years ; but their hatred, although carefully concealed, was not abated. Laws had been made which obliged them to fix their habita-

tion at some distance from the white men. Opechankanough still lived, though he numbered nearly a hundred years ; and so decrejoid had he become that he could no longer walk, but had to be carried on a litter before his warriors ; his eyelids were paralyzed so that he could only see when they were raised by his attend-

ants, and yet so fierce and implacable was his hatred of the whites that he determined to make one more effort to rescue the country from their grasp. Gathering the chiefs of the different tribes together, he told them of his plan, and succeeded in inducing them to join him, by a promise that they should possess all the riches which had been accumulated in the country ; and with the help of the arms and ammunition which they should gain, would be able to keep possession forever of the land so justly their own. The plot was well-laid — not a white man was to be spared — and would have been successful if the Indians had carried it out courageously; but the fear of the English was too rooted in them to permit this. They struck the first blow, and then fled.