[Footnote 9:  Canonchet (Ka-non’chet).]

[Footnote 10:  See map in paragraph 90.]

94.  Philip’s wife and son are taken prisoners; Philip is shot; end of the war.—­The next summer Captain Church, with a lot of “brisk Bridgewater lads” chased King Philip and his men, and took many of the Indians prisoners.  Among those then taken captive were King Philip’s wife and his little boy.  When Philip heard of it, he cried out, “My heart breaks; now I am ready to die.”  He had good reason for saying so.  It was the custom in England to sell such prisoners of war as slaves.  Following this custom, the settlers here took this boy, the grandson of that Massasoit[11] who had helped them when they were poor and weak, and sold him with his mother.  They were sent to the Bermuda Islands,[12] and there worked to death under the hot sun and the lash of the slave-driver’s whip.

Not long after that, King Philip himself was shot.  He had been hunted like a wild beast from place to place.  At last he had come back to see his old home at Mount Hope[13] once more.  There Captain Church found him; there the Indian warrior was shot.  His head and hands were cut off,—­as was then done in England in such cases,—­and his head was carried to Plymouth and set up on a pole.  It stood there twenty years.

King Philip’s death brought the war to an end.  It had lasted a little over a year; that is, from the early summer of 1675 to the latter part of the summer of 1676.  In that short time the Indians had killed between five and six hundred white settlers, and had burned thirteen villages to ashes, besides partly burning a great many more.  The war cost so much money that many people were made poor by it; but the strength of the Indians was broken, and they never dared to trouble the people of Southern New England again.

[Footnote 11:  See paragraph 68.]

[Footnote 12:  Bermuda (Ber-mu’dah):  the Bermuda Islands are in the Atlantic, north of the West India Islands and east of South Carolina; they belong to Great Britain.]

[Footnote 13:  See map in paragraph 84.]

95.  Summary.—­In 1675 King Philip began a great Indian war against the people of Southeastern New England.  His object was to kill off the white settlers, and get back the land for the Indians.  He did kill a large number, and he destroyed many villages, but in the end the white men gained the victory.  Philip’s wife and child were sold as slaves, and he was shot.  The Indians never attempted another war in this part of the country.

Who was Wamsutta?  What happened to him?  Who was “King Philip”?  Why did he hate the white men?  What did he say to himself?  What is said about the “Praying Indians”?  What happened to one of them?  What was done with three of Philip’s men?  Where and how did the war begin?  To what part of the country did it spread?  Tell about the Indian attack on Brookfield.  What happened at Hadley?  Tell how a woman drove off an Indian.  Tell all you can about the Great Swamp Fight.  What is said about Canonchet?  What is said of King Philip’s wife and son?  What happened to King Philip himself?  What is said about the war?