to his Indian slayer, "to show to such gentlemen as would bestow gratui-
ties upon him, and accordingly he got many a penny by it." His other hand was
chopped off and sent to Boston for exhibition, his head was sent to Plymouth and
exposed upon a scaffold there for twenty years, while the rest of his body was
quartered and the pieces left hanging upon four trees. Fifty years later Massachu-
setts offered a bounty of one hundred pounds for every Indian scalp, and scalp
hunting thus became a regular and usually a profitable business. On one occasion a
certain Lovewell, having recruited a company of forty men for this purpose, dis-
covered ten Indians lying asleep by their fire and killed the whole party. After
scalping them they stretched the scalps upon hoops and inarchedthus into Boston,
where the scalps were paraded and the bounty of one thousand pounds paid for
them. By a few other scalps sold from time to time at the regular market rate,
Lovewell was gradually acquiring a competency when in May, 1725, his company
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i net disaster, lie- discovered and vl >■ .t a solitary hunter, \\ ho was afterward scalped
by tin- chaplain of the party, bul the Indian managed to kill Lovewell i» i
being overpowered, on which the whites withdrew, but were pursued i>\ the tribes-
men of the slain hunter, with the result that but sixteen of them got homi
ius old ballad of the time tells how
"Our worthy Captain Lovewell among them there did die.
The) killed Lieutenant Robbins and wounded good young Frye,
Who was our