Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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stretched at length upon a scaffolding beneath whicha fire was kindled. The smoke had enwreathed the victim and theforked flames were leaping to seize the naked flesh, when the intendedholocaust was suddenly interrupted by the prayers of a daughter ofthe chief. She besought her father to spare the life of the Christian;one such, she urged, if he could do no good at least could do no harm ;and she made a cunning appeal to the vanity of the chief by suggestinghow great a distinction it would be to hold a white man as a captive.Her prayers were listened to; Ortiz was lifted from the scaffold andunbound, to serve thenceforth as a slave. What the feeling was whichthe sight of the pale stranger had aroused in the bosom of the duskymaiden, or what the relation which may have afterward existed be-tween them, we are not told; but whether it was on her part merepity for a stranger, or a tenderer and deeper sentiment, it was notforgotten. Three years later Ucita was defeated in a petty war with
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Sacrifice of Juan Ortiz; another chieftain, and there was danger that Ortiz would be sacrificedto propitiate the devil whose anger, Ucita believed, had brought thismisfortune upon him and his people. Then the princess came againto the rescue of the stranger and saved him from probable death.Warning him of his danger, and leading him secretly and alone inthe night-time beyond the boundaries of her fathers village, she puthim in the way to find the camp of the victorious chieftain who hadjust triumphed over her father and would protect, she knew, theChristian slave. 160 SPANISH DISCOVERIES AND EXPLORATIONS. (Chap. YII. Ortiz, when years afterwards he heard that his countrymen hadarrived in Florida, was glad enough to welcome them, while he did notforget that he had some cause of gratitude to his Indian friends. Asa horseman rode at him, not distinguishing him from the savages, hecried out: Do not kill me, cavalier ; I am a Christian ! Do notslay these people ; they have given me my life

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