most reliable.

The writer can not refrain, in this connection, from acknowledging the
obligations he is under to his friend and neighbor, John M'Keen, Esq.,
to whose extensive and accurate acquaintance with the early history of
this country he is indebted for many of the materials which have aided
him in the preparation of this work.

JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.

Brunswick, Maine, 1857.

CONTENTS.

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I. LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS 13

II. MASSASOIT 46

III. CLOUDS OF WAR 80

IV. THE PEQUOT WAR 110

V. COMMENCEMENT OF THE REIGN OF KING PHILIP 156

VI. COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES 187

VII. AUTUMN AND WINTER CAMPAIGNS 220

VIII. CAPTIVITY OF MRS. ROWLANDSON 254

IX. THE INDIANS VICTORIOUS 292

X. THE VICISSITUDES OF WAR 321

XI. DEATH OF KING PHILIP 353

XII. CONCLUSION OF THE WAR 385

ENGRAVINGS.

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PLYMOUTH BAY, AS SEEN BY THE PILGRIMS _Frontispiece._

THE FIRST ENCOUNTER 26

SAMOSET, THE INDIAN VISITOR 48

MASSASOIT AND HIS WARRIORS 57

THE PALACE OF MASSASOIT 68

THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER 169

THE BATTLE IN TIVERTON 210

CAPTURE OF THE INDIAN FORTRESS 247

CAPTIVITY OF MRS. ROWLANDSON 270

THE DESTRUCTION OF SUDBURY 311

THE INDIAN AMBUSH 315

THE DEATH OF PHILIP 360

KING PHILIP.

CHAPTER I.

LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS.

1620-1621

Arrival of the Mayflower.--Explorations.--Captain Weymouth.--Indian
captives.--Enticing the natives.--The seizure.--Trophies.--Necessity
for caution.--Discovery of a wigwam.--New enterprises.--The return of
the explorers.--New expedition.--Sight of some Indians.--Cheerless