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TOMMY TEN CANOES.
BY HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH.
There once lived in New York an Indian warrior by the name of PeterTwenty Canoes. Tommy Ten Canoes lived at Pokanoket, near Mount Hope, onan arm of the Mount Hope Bay.
He was not a warrior, but a runner; not a great naval hero, as hispicturesque name might suggest, but a news agent, as it were; he usedhis nimble feet and his ten canoes to bear messages to the Indians ofthe villages of Pokanoket and to the Narragansetts, and, it may be, toother friendly tribes.
Pokanoket? You may have read Irving's sketch of Philip of Pokanoket, butwe doubt if you have in mind any clear idea of this once beautifulregion, from whose clustering wigwams the curling smoke once rose fromthe giant oaks over the many waterways. The place of it on the map is