PHILIP OF POKANOKET.
and entreating t ty e men and be continued aftero ribe; o experience titude of we men.
son, Alexander, succeeded uous temper, and proudly tenacious of ary rigy. trusive policy and dictatorial conduct of trangers excited ion, and erminating ribes. o incur tility, being accused of plotting ts to rise against t is impossible to say ed by facts or is evident, and overbearing measures of ttlers t time begun to feel conscious of to groreatment of tives. tco seize upon Alexander and to bring s. raced to s, and surprised at a ing-er toils of t and trage offered to y so preyed upon to to a raging fever. ted to return ion of sending tal, and before im to t.
tamocet, or King Ptlers on account of y spirit and ambitious temper. togeterprise, of great jealousy and appre and implacable ility toes. Sucurally mere intruders into try, o savage life. rymen melting before territories slipping from tribes becoming feeble, scattered, and dependent. It may be said t ttlers; but ure of Indian purcion?
ty bargains tness in traf?c, and t accessions of territory by easily-provoked ilities. An uncultivated savage is never a nice inquirer into ts of las are all by before trusion of trymen nohers.
But y and icular indignation at treatment of , reneract tlers, and resided peaceably for many years at Pokanoket, or as, it seat of dominion of ribe. Suspicions, ?rst but vague and inde?nite, began to acquire form and substance, and lengttempting to instigate tern tribes