ing short for another run, his foot tripped in a small
grape-vine, and he fell flat on his face. Captain Church was
by this time up with him, and struck the muzzle of his gun
an inch and a half into the back part of his head, which
dispatched him without another blow.

"But Captain Church, looking behind him, saw another Indian,
whom he thought he had killed, come flying at him like a
dragon. But this happened to be fair within sight of the
guard that was set to keep the prisoners, who, spying this
Indian and others who were following him in the very
seasonable juncture, made a shot upon them, and rescued
their captain, though he was in no small danger from his
friends' bullets, for some of them came so near him that he
thought he felt the wind of them. The skirmish being over,
they gathered their prisoners together, and found the number
they had taken to be one hundred and seventy-three."

With these prisoners the English returned to Bridgewater. Captain
Church drove the captives that night into the pound, and placed an
Indian guard over them. They were abundantly supplied with food and
drink. These poor wretches were so degraded, and so regardless of
their fate, that they passed the night in hideous revelry. Philip had
by some unknown means escaped. With grief and shame we record that his
wife and son were sent to Bermuda and sold as slaves, and were never
heard of more. One of the Indian captives said to Captain Church,

"Sir, you have now made Philip ready to die. You have rendered him as
poor and miserable as he used to make the English. All his relatives
are now either killed or taken captive. You will soon have his head.
This last bout has broken his heart."

CHAPTER XI.

DEATH OF KING PHILIP.

1677

Fallen fortunes of Philip.--Execution of Sam Barrow.--Character
of Wetamoo.--The queen drowned.--Deplorable condition of
Philip.--Indomitable resolution.--Summary punishment.--Disposition
of the army.--Confident of the capture of Philip.--The carnage
commenced.--Rushing into danger.--Death of Philip.--Delight of
Alderman.--Reception of the news.--Ignoble treatment of the body.--An
Indian executioner.--Noble character of Philip.--His reluctance to
commence war.--His foresight.--His humanity.--His mode of
warfare.--Do justice to his memory.--Feelings for him in 1677.--Cotton
Mather's record.--"In his fate, forget his crimes."--An