CHAPTER XII.

The Virginia Emigrants.--Humanity and Enterprise of the Governor.--Envoy Sent to England.--Trading-Posts on the Kennebec and Penobscot Rivers.--Capture by the French.-- The Massachusetts Colony.--Its Numbers and Distinguished Characters.--Trade with the Indians.--Wampum the New Currency.--Trading-Post at Sandwich.--Sir Christopher Gardener.--Captain Standish Moves to Duxbury.--Lament of Governor Bradford. 257