during the cold night and on the long march. A large pro portion of brave officers had fallen. Eighty men were killed, and 150 wounded. Out of 300 men from Connecticut, 80 were either wounded or killed. 3 out of their 5 captains were killed, and one so wounded as never to recover. 700 Indian warriors were left dead on the field of battle; and 300 more died of their wounds. 600 were taken prisoners, of whom 300 were warriors. The Indians had left their all. They were left without firesides, without food, driven from the country of their birth, exposed to all the severity of deep shows and cold storms. To complete their ruin, the Eng lish searched their country, seized the corn, and burned hundreds of wigwams. In these several actions, 3,500 Indians were engaged; and 1000 more were kept as a body of reserve. Not being in a condition to pursue the enemy, the English returned to Boston on the 5th of February, 1676, after vast scenes of losses and sufferings.

Troubles from the savages did not terminate here. Having little more than groundnuts on which to subsist, want compelled them to leave their country. Wherever they went, however, they were sure to carry terrors, massacres and distresses. An union of all the savages was now expected. A party soon laid Mendon in ashes. Having received recruits from Canada, they burned Lancaster. They killed and took captive 40 persons. Among the latter was Mrs. Rowlandson, the minister's wife; he being gone on a journey to Boston to procure the means of defence. Marlborough, Sudbury and Chelmsford were theatres of sufferings. On the 21st of February, 1676, they fell upon Medfield. Although the town was guarded by 300 soldiers, one half the town was burned and 18 inhabitants massacred. They now approached within 16 miles of Boston, and burned 7 to 8 houses at Weymouth.

The March following was a season still more distressing. Warwick was consumed, where Capt. Pierce and 49 Englishmen were overpowered by numbers and were slain, after they had destroyed 140 of the enemy. The same day, Marlborough was burned, and several killed at Springfield. Northampton did not escape; there, 5 persons were killed, and as many houses burned. Groton was attacked, and its meeting house consumed. On the 28th of March, they burned 40 houses in Rehoboth, and 30 in the town of Providence. In Sudbury, 12 persons were killed; and the English going

to their relief were ambushed by 500 of the enemy, when more than 50 of the white people lost their lives, 5 or 6 were carried away prisoners, and were scourged, tortured and put to death in a most cruel manner.

The christian Indians were faithful to the English, and of ten exhibited proofs of a very ready invention. When Capt. Pierce was killed, a christian Indian fled behind a rock, when perceiving that he was discovered and would be shot down the moment he should move away, in this exigency he raised his hat upon a stick, a ball instantly pierced thro' it, when he rose and shot his antagonist. Another saved himself and the only Englishman who did escape, by running after him with his uplifted hatchet, as if he intended to kill him. Nor were other stratagems wanting, on various other occasions, which were either less ingenious or less successful.

The prospects of the white people were gloomy. As no spot was secure from a wandering and a maddened foe, fears prevailed every where. Seed time too was fast approaching; the fields were so many theatres of perils; and not to plant at all was to perish by famine.

The affairs of Philip seemed more prosperous than ever. His absence during the preceding winter led to a suspicion that he had gone to the Canada tribes for aid. But as excessive revenge had brought on the war, so the same dreadful passion was to defeat his own purposes and lead to a conclusion fatal to himself. It is said, that in order to engage the Mohawks in the war on his side, Philip, falling upon a party of them, killed them all, as he supposed, when he reported that the English had done this. One of those left for dead, however, revived, and discovered the truth to his countrymen. The Mohawks now fell upon Philip's men and killed 50 of them. The arms of the English began to be crowned with success in several expeditions. The Indians were distressed for want of food, while their ammunition began to fail. The sudden reverses of fortune on both sides abundantly showed how mutable are all human affairs.

The moment fatal to Philip was hastening on with rapid pace. His red brethren began to desert his cause; and submitted themselves to the English by hundreds. Philip himself, after many narrow escapes fled from swamp to swamp. Never more was he to visit his beloved Mount Hope. His chief counsellors had fallen fighting by his side. His uncle and his sister, his wife and his son were made prisoners. A

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formidable enemy in Capt. Church was now at his heels. On the 12th of August, 1676, near Mount Hope, Philip was slain, as he was flying out of a swamp from a party under the conduct of Capt. Church. One of Philip's own men, whom he had offended, shot him through the heart. Philip fell in the water and mud. With no covering but his breeches and stockings, his body was dragged to the upland. As he had caused so many Englishmen to lie unburied, Capt. Church would not suffer him to be buried. He directed an Indian to behead and quarter him. The Indian with his hatchet in his hand standing over the body of Philip, thus addressed him. "You have been one very great man. You have made many a man afraid of you. But so big as you be,-I will chop you into pieces." One hand chopped off, having a remarkable scar upon it by which it was well known, was carried round the country as a show, and his head was sent to Plymouth, where it arrived on the very day which was consecrated to God in thanksgiving for success and victory.