66 WINTER SKETCHES. 



Christianize them. EHot translated the Bible 

 into their language. It was a labor of years, 

 and when it was completed, the tribes for 

 whom it was intended had died out, but still 

 the credit for it is due to that devoted mis- 

 sionary. 



The Puritans were always ready to make 

 treaties and compromises before they resorted 

 to war and extermination. They behaved 

 much better in this respect than the Israelites, 

 by whose example they justified themselves, 

 and than their own descendants, who make 

 treaties but do not respect them. 



As we travel over this wide and stone-walled 

 road along the banks of the river, beholding 

 the smoke of factories and hearing the noise of 

 machinery and railroad-engines, let us close 

 our eyes and ears to the surroundings, and go 

 back in our thought to the time when all this 

 was a wilderness, and to the journey made by 

 Hopkins and Winslow a few months after the 

 colonists landed at Plymouth. It is graphi- 

 cally related by Winslow himself, and the 

 whole story may be found in the interesting 

 work of Dr. Young, to which reference has al- 

 ready been made. Over the ground where I 

 was riding, these two bold men, escorted by 



