The history of King Philip's War

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wounded a pair of Mittins, that he had borrowed of Capt.
Prentice \ being wrap'd up together had the mif- [16]
fortune of having many holes cut thro' them with one
Bullet: But however he made fhift to keep on his Legs,
and nimbly difcharged his Gun at them that wounded
him: being difinabled now to go a ftep, his Men would
have carried him off, but he forbid their touching of him,
until they had perfected their project of over-fetting the
Enemies fhelter; bid them run, for now the Indians had
no Guns charged. While he was urging them to run on,
the Indians began to moot Arrows, and with one peirc'd
thro' the Arm of an EnglifJi Man that had hold of Mr.
Churches Arm to fupport him. The Engli/k, in fhort,
were difcourag'd, and drew back. And by this time the
EnglifJi People in the Fort had began to fet fire to the
Wigwams & Houfes in the Fort, which Mr. Church laboured
hard to prevent; they told him, They had orders from the
General to burn tkem\ he beg'd them to forbear until he
had difcours'd the General; and haftning to him, he begd
to fpare the Wigwams, &c. in the Fort from fire, told him,
The Wigwams were Musket-proof being all liti'd with
BafJccts and Tubbs of Grain, and other Provifions, fuf-
ficicnt to fupply the whole Army, until the Spring of the
Tear; 1 ®* and every wounded Man might have a good warm
Houfe to lodge in, which other-ways would neceffarily pcrifJi
with the Storms and Cold. And more-over, that the Army
1:35 Church's part experience in the nature to urge this confideration upon
commiffary department had been of a his mind with great force.
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