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Excerpt from A Retrospect From the Round Tower of the Pomham Club
There rests on the eastern shore of the Narraganset a stately building. From it a tower ascends, and this tower I ascend, an unbidden guest. Standing as it does upon a high bluff, it affords a view of great scope, not only of the bay, but also of the surrounding country. Nestling at the foot of this bluff lies Happy Islet, and contiguous to it Pomham Rock and the red light thereon; hence, it was the tower of the Pomham Club House wherein I stood. In serene silence the mind ran back among the forgotten years and visions arose of things I might have seen had I then stood here. The club took its name from the rock and the rock from the Sachem, but how, or why, or when, I do not know.
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Excerpt from A Retrospect From the Round Tower of the Pomham Club
Sachems of the Narrowgaflcets; if he is slain, the glory of that nation is sunk with him into the'same pit. Another chroni cler writes ofhim, he was one ofthe stout est and most valiant of the Sachems, and still another, he was the most warlike and the best soldier of all the Narragansets. Shot, as here related, he withdrew him self into the bush to die. A wandering Englishman drew unconsciously near the dying chief, who, possessed as he was of immense muscular strength, instantly at tacked, and but for assistance, would have slain another of his enemies. Thus died Pomham on the. 27th of July, 1676, and from this tower, his home it was that I saw burning two hundred years ago.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.