The Narragansetts not only coined money (wampumpeag), but manufactured pendants and bracelets,--using shells, we presume, for these purposes. They also made tobacco-pipes, some blue and some white, out of stone, and furnished earthen vessels and pots for cookery and other domestic uses,--so that they had several approximations, in these respects, to civilization and art, not so distinctly manifested by other tribes. They had, in fact, commercial relations with other people and distant nations, and, it seems, were sometimes sneered at on account of their disinclination for war,--preferring other service. There is evidence, also, that they considered themselves--in some respects, at least--superior to other Indians; and this is illustrated by a very curious piece of history, said to be "the only tradition of any sort from the ancestors of our first Indians." It seems that the oldest Indians among the Narragansetts reported to the English, on their first arrival, "that they had in former times a sachem called Tashtassuck, who was incomparably greater than any in the whole land in power and state." This great sachem--who, it would seem, had the power to elevate, and, in some respects, enlighten his race--had only two children, a son and daughter; and, not being able to match them according to their dignity, he joined them together in matrimony, and they had four sons, of whom Canonicus, who was chief sachem when the English arrived, was the eldest. There is no reason to doubt that the marriage was a happy one, agreeable to the parties, satisfactory to the parent, and certainly famous in its progeny. INTERMARRIAGE AMONG THE EGYPTIANS. This probably is the only record of such a marriage in this country. The form of family marriage, however, it is a matter of history, was common among the Egyptians, and probably has been practised more or less among all the savage nations of the earth. Cleopatra, the daughter of Ptolemy Auletes, on the death of her father, was married, according to his will, to Ptolemy XII., his eldest son, and ascended the throne; both being minors, Pompey was appointed their guardian. In the wars which followed, her husband was drowned, and she then married her second brother, Ptolemy (Necteros), a child seven years old. Afterwards she became the mistress of Cæsar, and subsequently poisoned her boy-husband, when at the age of fourteen, because he claimed his share of the Egyptian crown. So that, in fact, she made war against her first husband, and poisoned her second,--a result very different from that recorded of the Narragansett intermarriage. MURDER OF MIANTONOMO.