CHAPTER X.

Search for Corn.--Trip to Buzzard’s Bay.--Interesting Incident.--Energy and Sagacity of Captain Standish.-- Hostile Indications.--Insolence of Witeewamat.--The Plot Defeated.--Sickness of Massasoit.--The Visit.--Gratitude of the Chief.--Visit to Corbitant.--Condition of the Weymouth Colony.--The Widespread Coalition.--Military Expedition of Captain Standish.--His Heroic Adventures.-- End of the Weymouth Colony. 209