A little after another _Indian_ War threatning the _English_, they resolv’d together to send an Ambassador to _Cannonicus_, chief _Sachem_ of the _Naragansits_, endeavoring to prevent him from confederating with the _Pequods_, who (as they had Intelligence) were about sending to him to joyn with them: _Cannonicus_ being grown old, had resign’d the Government to his Nephew _Mantinemo_, a stern Man, and of a cruel Nature. The Ambassadors arriving at his Court, which was about eighty Miles from _Boston_, the _Indian_ Prince assembled his chief Councellors, and having Entertain’d the Ambassadors Magnificently, and Feasted them Royally, gave them Audience in his State-house; where the _Sachem_, to manifest his greater State, lay along upon the Ground, with all his Nobility sitting about him, with their Legs doubled up, and their Knees touching their Chin: The _English_ Interpreter having made his Speech in the Name of the rest, both _Cannonicus_ and the young King gave discreet Answers, signifying their Resolutions to keep a fair Correspondence with the _English_, and yet not to fall out with the _Pequods_: Who a little after making also their Addresses to the same King, he disswaded them by many Reasons from making War with the _English_, and to deliver into their hands those Persons that had murther’d any of them. The _Pequods_ nevertheless, though they seem’d inclinable to his Counsel, yet they acted as Enemies; for when the _English_ sent a Company of Soldiers into their Countrey to treat with them about delivering up the Murtherers, they made shew of willingness, but spying their advantage, betook themselves to their Heels; and whomsoever they took stragling by surprise, they revil’d and insulted over in a most cruel manner, vilifying the _Christian_ Religion, and uttering all the Blasphemies they could invent. Whereupon they rais’d fresh Souldiers for the War, to the number of fourscore, out of the several Towns in the _Mattachusets_, and with some _Indian_ Guides came to their Fort, within which they had pitch’d their _Wigwams_, the Entrance being on two sides, with intricate Meanders to enter; at which were plac’d _Indian_ Bowe-men, who shot the foremost of the _English_; yet they had little to boast of in the end, for the _English_ rushing in through the winding Ways, and placing themselves round the _Wigwams_, made a very prosperous Shot, by directing the Muzzles of their Musquets against the _Indians_ which lay sleeping on the Ground: In the midst of which rouzing terror and confusion they were defeated with little ado, most of them being either wounded, kill’d, or taken. The _English_ thus animated with the first Victory, send their Prisoners to the Pinnaces, and prosecute the War in Hand, marching against the next Body of the _Indians_, which lay Encamp’d on a Hill about two Miles distant, where they gave them a second Overthrow, slaying many more than in the first Engagement; the rest flying to a very thick inaccessible Swamp or Bog,