Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-05-24

telligent enough to be worthy the
name. Like many of her tribe, she
has an English name by which she
is generally known in her dealings
with the whites, who find it more in
keeping with their ideas to call her
Lucy Nicola. She is about 20 years
of age.
There is a romantic history back
of the movement to send Bright Eyes
to the Harvard annex. Montague
Chamberlain, for many years record
er of the Lawrence scientific school
of Harvard, has taken the Indian
girl under his protection because one
of her ancestors spared the life of
one of his forefathers. Mr.. Cham
berlain is an ethnologist who has
made a speciality of the Indian tribes
of the east. He has studied their
histories, their languages and their
legends.
About the time of the French and
Indian war some of the Pannawabs-
kiks, who had wandered from Maine
to the st. Lawrence, joined the In
dams under the French and made
raid into English territory, includ-
ing an attack on Ticonderaga. With
the English force was a trader from
Boston named Chamberlain, who got
into hand-to-hand conflict with
powerful Penobscot Indian. In the
struggle they clinched, but the red
skin was the better wrestler and
threw the white. Chamberlain man
aged to regain his feet and start on
a run, but the Indian overlook him,
and, having picked up club, knocked
Chamberlain down before he could
use his knife. The strength and
courage of the white evidently won
the admiration of the Indian. for as
he stood over Chamberlain with club
in hand the Penobscot said in Eng
| lish:
II like you. Make you my son.
You good fighter"
Chamberlain was accordingly treat
ed as a prisoner and was taken to
the Indian village of st. Francis, on
the st. Lawrence river. While he
was permitted to roam freely about
the village, the Indians kept watch
| full eye on him, and he knew he was
captive. He learned, however, to
| like the Indian life and remained
three years. Then in n fit of home
sickness he decided to go home, but
! the captor refused to let him depart.
| Chamberlain had won the hearts of
many of the squaws by lending them
q helping hand in their drudgery,
and some of the maidens of the tribe
aided him in escaping under cover Of
darkness. He afterward became a
man of consequence in Boston, and
the ethnologist of to-day is one of
his descendants.
The Penobscot Indians in time re-
turned to Maine and settled on the
island in the Penobscot river, which
is still their home. Montague Cham
berlain, in the course of his investi-
cations discovered that Wah-ta-waso
was descended from the Indian who
had taken his ancestor captive at
Ticonderoga, and he took it upon
himself to give her an opportunity to
gain an excellent education. She has
had the advantage Of common and
high schools, and is now preparing
to enter the Harvard annex next
summer Mr.. Chamberlain has
helped number of the Penobscots
to 20 to Carlisle, and he has built
them a library on their island.
Bright Eyes is an accomplished
young woman, for she sings well and
plays the piano, She is also pet
OF certain circle of New York So
ciety, and has been entertained in
that city, On one occasion she made
hit by an address she made dur