Excerpt from The Pequot Indians: An Historical SketchThe Pequots were governed by a powerful Sachem, whom they idolized and regarded as all one God. Under his leadership they had become a terror to the neighboring tribes, with whom they had frequently been engaged in deadly hostilities.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.