. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . l not fight, they plot against wife and child—who can tell how the savage loved them?—have been sold into slavery in the islands far out in the is no hope left for him. Yet still ho is King Phili]^ ofPokanokct, sachem of the Wampanoags ; and with a strange dig-nity of feeling, the hopelessly lost man goes back to his desola-ted home, once the scat of his power. On the night of August 11, 1676, a body of men under CaptainChurch reached Bristol Neck, which connects Mount Hope withthe mainland, and concealed themselves in the bushe
. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . l not fight, they plot against wife and child—who can tell how the savage loved them?—have been sold into slavery in the islands far out in the is no hope left for him. Yet still ho is King Phili]^ ofPokanokct, sachem of the Wampanoags ; and with a strange dig-nity of feeling, the hopelessly lost man goes back to his desola-ted home, once the scat of his power. On the night of August 11, 1676, a body of men under CaptainChurch reached Bristol Neck, which connects Mount Hope withthe mainland, and concealed themselves in the bushes. Day broke,and the Indians seeing themselves closely beset, rushed fromtheir hiding places m great disorder, under a heavy fire. Everypoint of egress from the marsh where they had lain was guard-ed. Past one point, where a white man and the Indian guidestood, a warrior would have run; the white mans gun missedits mark, but a deadlier hatred aimed the traitors, for the fugi-tive was Philip. A ball pierced his heart, and he fell CAPTAIN MILES STANDISH. 145 King Philips war was over. Still there was not yet an end tothe fighting. The flames still smouldered, and often broke out,until the few Indians who survived were subdued in spirit, andhad forgotten the traditions of their race. For twenty years the head of Pometaconi, the last chief of theWampanoags, looked from the gibbet at Plymouth upon the landof his fathers, that he had sold for trifles and would have re-deemed with blood • a ghastly symbol of safety to those who suc-ceeded him in the sovereignt}^ of his native land.
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