om to watch him die.

He managed to raise himself a little.

"Send in to me the governor," he demanded angrily.

Governor Berkeley entered.

"It is time," rebuked old Opechancanough. "For had it been my fortune
to have taken Sir William Berkeley prisoner, I should not have exposed
him as a show to my people."

Then Opechancanough died, a chief and an enemy to the last.

CHAPTER IV

KING PHILIP THE WAMPANOAG (1662-1676)

THE TERROR OF NEW ENGLAND

While in Virginia the white colonists were hard put to it by the
Powatans, the good ship _Mayflower_ had landed the Puritan Pilgrim
Fathers on the Massachusetts Bay shore to the north, among the
Pokanokets.

The Po-kan-o-kets formed another league, like the league of the
Powatans. There were nine tribes, holding a section of southeastern
Massachusetts and of water-broken eastern Rhode Island.

The renowned Massasoit of the Wam-pa-no-ag tribe was the grand sachem.
In Rhode Island, on the east shore of upper Narragansett Bay was the
royal seat of Montaup, or Mount Hope, at the village Pokanoket.

Great was the sachem Mas-sa-so-it, who ruled mildly but firmly, and was
to his people a father as well as a chief.

Of his children, two sons were named Wamsutta and Metacomet. They were
renamed, in English, Alexander and Philip, by the governor of this
colony of Plymouth.

Alexander was the elder. He had married Wetamoo, who was the young
squaw sachem of the neighboring village of Pocasset, to the east.
Philip married her sister, Woo-to-ne-kau-ske.

[Illustration: King Philip (missing from book)]

When late in 1661 the sage Massasoit died, Alexander became grand
sachem of the Pokanoket league.

Now the long reign of Massasoit had been broken. With him out of the
way, certain hearts, jealous of the Wampanoags and their alliance with
the English, began to stir up trouble for the new sachem. They
reported him as planning a revolt against Plymouth Colony.

There may have been some truth in this. The Puritans were a stern,
strict people, who kept what they had seized, and who constantly added
more. To them the Indians were heathens and inferiors; not free
allies, but subjects of the king of England.

Before the landing of the Pilgrims in the Indians' territory, sailing
ships, touching at the New England shore, had borne Indians away into
slavery. Since the landing of the Pilgrims, the Pequots had been
crushed in battle, and Captain Miles Standish had a