CHAPTER XIV.

Menace of the Narragansets.--Roger Williams.--Difficulty on the Kennebec.--Bradford’s Narrative.--Captain Standish as Mediator.--The French on the Penobscot.--Endeavors to Regain the Lost Port.--Settlements on the Connecticut River.--Mortality Among the Indians.--Hostility of the Pequots.--Efforts to Avert War.--The Pequot Forts.--Death of Elder Brewster.--His Character. 301