pplied knife and
rope to other Indians.

So some doubts as to the wisdom of Massasoit's treaty with the English
began to spread through the Pokanokets.

The Plymouth officers ordered Alexander to appear at court and answer
the charges against him. When he delayed, Major Josiah Winslow was
sent to get him. The major took ten armed men, and proceeded for Mount
Hope. On the way he found Alexander and party in a hunting lodge,
their guns leaning outside.

The major seized the guns. With pistol in hand he demanded that
Alexander come with him, or die. Alexander claimed that he was a
sachem and free ruler, not a dog. He "fell into a raging passion." He
had a proper pride, and a fierce temper.

He agreed to go, as a sachem attended by his own followers. The charge
against him never was pressed, because his rage and shame at the insult
threw him into a fever, from which he soon died.

He had reigned only a few months. In this year 1662 Philip or
Metacomet took his place as grand sachem of the Pokanokets. The death
of his brother grieved him. Wetamoo, the young widow, said that
Alexander had been poisoned by his captors, the English. The story
counted, and the fate of Alexander was not a pleasant story, to the
Pokanokets.

Philip saw trouble ahead. His neighbors the Narragansetts had long
been at outs with the English. In his father's reign their old chief
Mi-an-to-no-mah had been handed over by the Puritans of Connecticut to
Chief Uncas of the Mohegans for execution in the Indian way. The
Narragansetts were friendly with the Pokanokets; they rather looked
upon Philip as their adopted leader.

His lands were rapidly going, the English were rapidly spreading, the
Puritan laws and religion were being forced upon him. It was galling
that he, a king by his own right, should be made a subject of another
king whom he had never seen.

The New England colonists could not forget how the Virginia colonists
had been surprised and killed by the Powatans. They watched King
Philip closely. In 1671 he was said to be complaining that certain of
them were trespassing on his hunting grounds. This led to the report
that his people were holding councils, and were repairing their guns
and sharpening their hatchets, as if for war.

So King Philip, like his brother King Alexander, was summoned to the
Puritan court, to be examined. He had not forgotten the treatment of
Alexander. He went, but he filled half the town mee