PHILIP OF POKANOKET.
to rise at once, and by a simultaneous effort to t is dif?cult at tant period to assign t due to tions against to suspicion and an aptness to acts of violence on t of tes t gave o every idle tale. Informers abounded enance and res success ain and it carved out empire.
* Nool, Rhode Island.
tive evidence on record against Pion of one Sausaman, a renegado Indian, ion imes y t evinced ted for some time as Pial secretary and counsellor, and y and protection. Finding, ty ron, over to tes, and in order to gain tor ting against ty. A rigorous investigation took place. Ps submitted to be examined, but not ttlers, oo far to retract; termined t Prust, and o insure ility; according, to truction o ty. Sausaman, treacly aftero tribe. tried, and on testimony of one very questionable ness ed as murderers.
treatment of s and ignominious punis of raged ted the passions of Philip.
t orm, and ermined to trust e men. te of ed and broken-ed brotill rankled in ragical story of Miantonimo, a great Sacts, s, exculpating y, c tigation. Ping-men about rangers t o join to tts for safety, and winually surrounded by armed warriors.
ies ate of distrust and irritation, t spark to set tted various petty depredations. In one of ttler.
tilities; to revenge th colony.
In times ions of tate of traction and tuation among trackless forests and savage tribes s to superstitious fancies, and ions ful cc and spectrology. to a belief in omens. troubles old, by a v