NOTES. PAGE 3. The sword of Damascus. STANDISH'S Sword is still preserved at Plymouth, with an Arabic inscription on the back, showing it to be a "Damascus blade." His coat of mail, when taken out of an old box and touched, crumbled to dust. PAGE 5. Lies buried Rose Standish. The first winter's mortality among the settlers was very great. Among the victims "died Rose Standish, wife of Captain Standish, on January 29th." PAGE 24. Why don't you speak for yourself, John? Olivia. O by your leave, I pray you ; I bade you never speak again of him; Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 1. PAGE 34. The sailing of the May Flower. After remaining one hundred and ten days in Plymouth Harbor, this historical and gallant little ship returned to England in the month of April, 1621; and notwithstanding their great sufferings, all the Pilgrims remained at their posts, not one asked to re-embark. PAGE 42. The Field of the First Encounter. This name was given to the scene of the skirmish, in which the intrepidity of Standish and his little band proved more than a match for an assault of the Indians. PAGE 56. But their sachem, the brave Wattawamat, Fled not; he was dead. "But it is incredible how many wounds these two prinses (braves), Pecksuot and Wattawamat, received before they died, not making any fearful noise, but catching at their weapons, and striving to the last."―Journal of the Colonists. PAGE 63. Yes; Miles Standish was dead. Standish had a very narrow escape from an assassin. A wily Indian, "a notable insulting villain," persuaded the |