The beginner's American history . t the wigwams on fire, and burned many of thesepoor creatures to death. Canonchet, the chief of the tribe, was taken settlers told him they would spare his life if he wouldtry to make peace. No, said he, *we will all fight tothe last man rather than become slaves to the white was then told that he must be shot. ** I like it well,said he. * I wish to die before my heart becomes soft, orI say anything unworthy of myself. 94. Philips wife and son are taken prisoners; Philip isshot; end of the war. — The next summer Captain Church,with a lot of
The beginner's American history . t the wigwams on fire, and burned many of thesepoor creatures to death. Canonchet, the chief of the tribe, was taken settlers told him they would spare his life if he wouldtry to make peace. No, said he, *we will all fight tothe last man rather than become slaves to the white was then told that he must be shot. ** I like it well,said he. * I wish to die before my heart becomes soft, orI say anything unworthy of myself. 94. Philips wife and son are taken prisoners; Philip isshot; end of the war. — The next summer Captain Church,with a lot of ? brisk Bridgewater lads chased King Philipand his men, and took many of the Indians those then taken captive were King Philips wifeand his little boy. When Philip heard of it, he cried out,* My heart breaks ; now I am ready to die. He had goodreason for saying so. It was the custom in England tosell such prisoners of war as slaves. Following this cus-tom, the settlers here took this boy, the grandson of that. Indian Attack on a Settle-ment. The building on the right isa block-house, or fort made ofhewn logs. These block-houseswere built as places of refugefor the settlers, in case of anittack on the town by the In- 66 KING PHILIP. 67 Massasoit ^ who had helped them when they were poorand weak, and sold him with his mother. They were sentto the Bermuda Islands,^ and there worked to death underthe hot sun and the lash of the slave-drivers whip. Not long after that, King Philip himself was shot. Hehad been hunted like a wild beast from place to place. Atlast he had come back to see his old home at Mount Hope ^once more. There Captain Church found him ; there theIndian warrior was shot. His head and hands were cutoff, — as was then done in England in such cases, — andhis head was carried to Plymouth and set up on a stood there twenty years. King Philips death brought the war to an end. It hadlasted a little over a year; that is, from the early summer
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