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Metipom's Hostage (1921)
by Ralph Henry Barbour, illustrated by Remington Schuyler
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“Being a narrative of certain surprising adventures befalling one David Lindall in the first year of King Philip’s War.”

[David is held as hostage as ransom for their sachem's son who was arrested.] "But our hero is not the type to remain quiet, when he is captured. … How he meets these various ways of the red man is told by Mr. Barbour with much vigor. The author handles an Indian as well as, in a college story, he handled bat and football. And he seems to know the rule of the Indian warfare as accurately as he does the warfare of the gridiron. —from a review in the "New Books for Young folks" section of The Literary Digest, November 1921.

Ralph Henry BarbourRemington Schuyler2542600Metipom's Hostage1921
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METIPOM’S HOSTAGE

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KING PHILIP

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METIPOM’S HOSTAGE

BEING A NARRATIVE OF CERTAIN SURPRISING
ADVENTURES BEFALLING ONE DAVID LINDALL
IN THE FIRST YEAR OF KING PHILIP’S WAR


BY
RALPH HENRY BARBOUR


WITH ILLUSTRATIONS



BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The University Press, Cambridge
1921

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COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY RALPH HENRY BARBOUR


ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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CONTENTS

  1. I. The Red Omen 1
  2. II. The Meeting in the Woods 14
  3. III. Down the Winding River 27
  4. IV. The Spotted Arrow 41
  5. V. David visits the Praying Village 53
  6. VI. What happened at the Pool 69
  7. VII. Captured 82
  8. VIII. Metipom questions 93
  9. IX. The Village of the Wachoosetts 105
  10. X. Sequanawah pledges Friendship 122
  11. XI. The Cave in the Forest 135
  12. XII. David faces Death 147
  13. XIII. A Friend in Strange Guise 159
  14. XIV. Emissaries from King Philip 172
  15. XV. The Sachem decides 180
  16. XVI. Monapikot’s Message 193
  17. XVII. Metipom takes the War-Path 204
  18. XVIII. In King Philip’s Power 219
  19. XIX. The Island in the Swamp 234
  20. XX. David bears a Message 249
  21. XXI. To the Rescue 260
  22. XXII. The Attack on the Garrison 272
  23. XXIII. Straight Arrow returns 281
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ILLUSTRATIONS

  1. King Philip Frontispiece
  2. In that instant David knew, and his heart leaped into his throat 80
  3. There was a swift whiz-z! beside him and an arrow embedded itself in a sapling 224
  4. Then David was half pushing, half carrying Monapikot through the doorway 282


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