English chaplain; he many Indians slew,
And some of them he scalped when bullets round him flew."
When the mission village of Xorridgewock was attacked by the New England men
about the same time, women and children were made to suffer the fate of the war-
riors. The scholarly missionary, Rasles, anther .if the Abnaki Dictionary, was shot
down at the foot of the cross, where he was afterward found with his body riddled
with halls, his skull crushed and scalped, Ins mouth and eyes filled with earth, his
limlis broken, and all his members mutilated- ami this by white men. The border
men .if the Revolutionary period ami later invariably scalped slain Indian- as often
as opportunity permitted, and. as has already Keen shown, both British and American
officials encouraged the practice by offers of bounties amirewards, even, in the ease
of tin- former, when the seal] is were those of white people. < >ur difficulties with the
Apache date from a treacherous massacre of them in 1836 by a party of American
scalp hunters in the pay of the governor of Sonora. The bounty offered was one
ounce of gold per scalp. In lsi>4 the Colorado militia under Colonel Chivington
attaeked a party of Cheyennes camped under the protection of the United States
flag, and killed, mutilated, and scalped 1 70 men, women, and children, bringing the
scalps into Denver, when- the) were paraded in a public hall. One Lieutenant
Richmond killed and scalped three women and live children. Scalps were taken l,\
American troops in the Modoc war of is":!, and there is now living in the Comanche
tribe a woman who