were there besieg’d by the _English_; and skulking up and down, as they saw their opportunity they would Shoot at them with their Arrows, and then suddenly fall flat along in the Water; at last the _English_ finding out a Passage into the Swamp, utterly defeated them, and put an end to the War with the loss of few Mens Lives, and not many wounded. In the Year 1640. there came over a fresh Supply of People into _New England_, and finding no place to settle in within any of the former erected Colonies, they repair’d to a place call’d _Long Island_, sever’d from the Continent of _New-Haven_, about sixty Miles off the Sea. The Year following the four Colonies, namely the _Massachusets_, _Plymouth_, _Canectico_, and _New-Haven_, taking into consideration the many Nations that were on all sides of them, as the _French_, _Dutch_, _Jews_, and native _Indians_; as also how the three first went to lay claim to Lands they never had any right to, and the last to be continually quarrelling and contending, where they saw any hopes of prevailing, by Commissioners chosen from the respective Colonies, concluded a firm Confederation to assist each other in all just and lawful Wars; upon which there came in certain _Indian Sachems_, as _Pomham_, _Miantonemo_, _Soccanocoh_, and _Uncas_, who not onely submitted to the _English_ Government, but also, if occasion were, in matters of Controversie submitted to their Arbitration: But the Contest between _Miantonemo_ and _Uncas_ was too hot to be appeas’d, (though the _English_ were not wanting to interpose) unless by the Blood of one of them, as will appear by the Consequence: _Uncas_ was a Prince of _For_, whose Life _Miantonemo_, though a much more potent Prince, sought to take away by treachery, hiring a young Man of the _Pequod_ Nation to murther him, as the following Story renders suspected; for one dark Evening this _Sachem_ passing from one _Wigwam_ to another, was Shot through the Arm with an Arrow; but recovering the Palace, had the Arrow pull’d out, and his Arm cur’d: the young Man that was suspected being examin’d, how he came by that great store of _Wampompeage_ which was found about him, and being able to give no good account, it increas’d the suspicion, and induc’d _Uncas_ to complain to the _English_ at a General Court held at _Boston_: Whereupon the young Man was Examin’d in the presence of _Miantonemo_, who came thither with his Attendants; but the young Man tutor’d, as suppos’d, by _Miantonemo_, pretended that _Uncas_ had enjoyn’d him to feign that he was hir’d by _Miantonemo_ to kill him: To which Tale of his little belief being given, it was concluded upon farther Examination of him in private that he had done the Fact: nevertheless they let him depart with _Miantonemo_, advising him to send him home to _Uncas_; but he in stead of returning him cut off his Head, and forthwith gather’d an Army of a thousand Men to fight with _Uncas_; who met him with half the Men: the Battel being joyn’d,