Note 1 — Chapter X
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Thus the hieroglyphical message of the Scythian Ambassador, who, without making any comment, presented Darius with five arrows, a bird, a frog, and a mouse, is pretty generally known. The Chief of the Narraghanset Indians also made himself understood, by sending the first settlers of New England a rattlesnake’s skin stuffed with arrows. This was answered as intelligibly by the settlers returning the same skin filled with powder and bullets.