126 THE VENGEANCE OF UNCAS. 



a-half northeast of Yantic Falls, and is still known by the name 

 of " Sachem's Plain." The Mohegans, by command of Uncas, 

 buried Miantonimoh in the spot where he fell, and erected a 

 rude pillar upon his grave, a memorial of which still exists. 



On the summit of a hill which commands a lovely view of 

 the lake-like outlet of Yantic Falls, is the burial ground of the 

 Mohegans, and in that beautiful spot lie the remains of Uncas, 

 the last powerful sachem of that once powerful tribe. A nar- 

 row ravine, which seems to have been originally the bed of a 

 little mountain stream, leads from the brow of the hill directly to 

 the river ; and up this defile the Indians always bore their dead 

 to the place of tombs. The footsteps of white men have 

 marked every rood of ground in the neighborhood, but with a 

 spirit of forbearance, too unusual in the annals of civilization, 

 the Indian death road and the Indian burial ground are still 

 left free to the poor remnant of the red race which exists 

 in the land. A small enclosure, within which has been erected 

 a monument to the memory of Uncas, is still appropriated as 

 the place of graves, and occasionally there may still be seen 

 the melancholy spectacle of a few squalid miserable Indians, 

 pacing with slow step the mountain pass, as they bear to its 

 last resting place the body of some wretched degraded being, 

 in whose veins ran the blood of the inheritors of the soil. 



As I stood upon that green and tree-crowned hill, looking 

 down upon the cove which puts in at its foot, it needed little 

 imagination to picture such a scene. I could fancy the bark 

 canoes sweeping over the tranquil waters, — the silent disem- 



