Young folks' history of the United States . pposite what isnow called Fall River, peninsula had been re-served for the tribe when therest of their lands were was a brave and thought-ful man. He saw that thewhite settlements were grad-ually increasing, and that theIndians were being confinedto a smaller and smaller space;and he resolved to unite thetribes in a desperate effort todrive the English from thesoil. He went from tribe totribe, all the w^ay from Maineto Connecticut, and almostevery tribe joined the league, even the friendly Nar-ragansetts, whose chief, Miantonomi
Young folks' history of the United States . pposite what isnow called Fall River, peninsula had been re-served for the tribe when therest of their lands were was a brave and thought-ful man. He saw that thewhite settlements were grad-ually increasing, and that theIndians were being confinedto a smaller and smaller space;and he resolved to unite thetribes in a desperate effort todrive the English from thesoil. He went from tribe totribe, all the w^ay from Maineto Connecticut, and almostevery tribe joined the league, even the friendly Nar-ragansetts, whose chief, Miantonomi, had been slainthrough the treachery of some whites. Philip had laidhis plans so well, that the war broke out along a line oftwo hundred miles, within three weeks. It was pecu- Destruc-liarly severe in Western Massachusetts, where town after town*fintown was burned. Tradition says that in one village, yestem • = Massachu Hadley, when it was attacked by the Indijins, and the setts,settlers were all irresolute for want of a leader, a ven-. KING PHILIP. 138 YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. erable man, unknown to all, appeared suddenly in thestreets, took command of the people, gave militaryorders that led to the defeat of the Indians, and thendisappeared as suddenly as he came. It was afterwardssupposed that this mysterious person was William Goffe,* who had been a general in Cromwells army, and hadbeen compelled to flee from England as a regicide for having been one of the judges who sentencedCharles I, to death. Goffe, and his companion Whalley,were long in concealment among the forests and cavesof Connecticut. This sudden appearance at Hadley isdescribed in Hawthornes story of The Gray Cham-pion, though he has changed the time and place ofthe To break the power of the Indian league, an expedi-pediuon. tion of a thousand men, under Captain Winslow, wassent against the Narragansetts in Rhode Island. Inthe depth of winter the colonists made their way to ^the Narragans
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