The history and antiquities of Boston .. . an Indian, who happened to be outside of the fort, discov-ered the English when they were about to discharge their guns upon had only time to cry. Englishmen ! Englishmen ! and that in hisown tongue,— Owanux ! Owanux ! when the work of death man, says Underbill, being bereaved of pity, fell uponthe work without compassion, considering the blood they had shed of our native countrymen — having slain,persons. first and last, about thirty In attemptingto force an en-trance, one Mas-ter Hedge wasshot through botharms, and morewounded. Cap
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . an Indian, who happened to be outside of the fort, discov-ered the English when they were about to discharge their guns upon had only time to cry. Englishmen ! Englishmen ! and that in hisown tongue,— Owanux ! Owanux ! when the work of death man, says Underbill, being bereaved of pity, fell uponthe work without compassion, considering the blood they had shed of our native countrymen — having slain,persons. first and last, about thirty In attemptingto force an en-trance, one Mas-ter Hedge wasshot through botharms, and morewounded. Cap-tain Mason andmyself, says Un-derbill, enteringinto the wigwams,he was shot, andreceived many ar-rows against hishead-piece. My-sTORMiNQ OF THE PEQUOT FORT. sclf rcceivod a shot the hip, through a sufficient buff coat, which, if I had not beensupplied with, the arrow would have pierced through me. Another Ireceived between neck and shoulders. The odds was too great. TheEnglish seeing they would be beat out of the fort. Mason with his. m 1637.] PEQUOT WAR. 209 own hands set fire to the wigwams,* which in a moment enveloped thewhole in This decided the day. The English with theirIndian friends surrounded the burning fort, and shot down those thatattempted to Thus, in about one hours space, was the power of the Pequotsalmost annihilated. Between six hundred and seven hundred perishedby the sword or the flames ; seven only escaping, and seven weretaken prisoners. But two of the assailants were killed ; one of Masonscompany, and one of Underhills, and twenty wounded. The vessels which had brought the troops to Narraganset, wereordered to proceed to Pequot to receive them again when they hadfinished the work for which they came. They arrived within a fewhours of the time, and thus Captain Underbill and the Narragansetsreturned in them to Saybrook, and Captain Mason and his men pro-ceeded to the same place by land, destroying whatever they met withbelonging to t
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