. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. beginning to arousethe colonists to a fearful revenge. Captive Indians, includingPhilips wife and little son, were sold into slavery in the WestIndies, and even in Plymouth the heads of slain Indians wereexposed on poles. There is nothing, however, on the part ofthe whites as barbarous as an act of the Indians in roasting acaptive and eating slices of his flesh while yet alive. The saintly Eliot, who had been a successful missionaryto the Indians
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. beginning to arousethe colonists to a fearful revenge. Captive Indians, includingPhilips wife and little son, were sold into slavery in the WestIndies, and even in Plymouth the heads of slain Indians wereexposed on poles. There is nothing, however, on the part ofthe whites as barbarous as an act of the Indians in roasting acaptive and eating slices of his flesh while yet alive. The saintly Eliot, who had been a successful missionaryto the Indians, tried, with others, to lessen the brutalities of 80 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD war, so far as the whites were concerned, but without Indians, however, had not so much feeHng about thismatter, even as concerned their own people, as one mightexpect. They looked upon death with a sort of indifferenceand probably felt that scalping and being scalped, burningalive and being burnt alive were a part of the glory of Toto, mentioned in the fourth chapter (page 60), havinghimself killed nineteen whites, at last fell into the hands of. Indians Killing a White Noah Websters Little Readers Assistant. Captain Church, he was told to prepare to die. He admittedthat the sentence was just and said he was ashamed to asked only the favor of being allowed to smoke a few whiffsof tobacco, which having done, he said he was ready. Thenone of Captain Churchs Indians sank a hatchet in his last winter began to set in, a time when even the Indianscould not accomplish much in the way of active and his Wampanoags retired from this region andentrenched themselves in a swamp in the eastern part of the KING PHILIPS WAR 81 State, where they were attacked with great slaughter. But itwas a sad state of things here in the valley, with Deerfield,Northfield and Springfield destroyed and only Hadley andNorthampton remaining. Springfield was in great str
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