The history of King Philip's War

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would kill more Men than the Enemy had killed ; for (faid
he) by to Morroiv the wounded Men will be fo Jliff that
there will be no moving of them'. And looking upon Mr.
Church, and feeing the blood flowing a pace from his
Wounds, told him, That if he gave fuck advice as that was,
he flwuld bleed to Death like a Dog, before they would en-
deavour to flench his blood. Though after they had pre-
vailed againft his advice, they were fufficiently kind to
him. And burning up all the Houfes and Provilions in
the Fort; the Army return'd the fame Night in the Storm
and Cold: And I Suppofe every one that is acquainted
with the circumftances of that Nights March, deeply
laments the miferies that attended them, efpecially the
[17] wounded & dying Men. But it mercifully came to
pafs that Capt. Andrew Belcher arrived at Mr. Smiths
that very Night from Boflon, with a VefTel loaden with
Provilions for the Army, who muft otherwife have perilh'd
for want. Some of the Enemy that were then in the Fort
have lince inform'd us, that near a third of the Indians
belonging to all that Narraganfet Country were killed by
the EnglifJi, and by the Cold that Night, 139 that they fled
138 See note 52, cuitc. Smith's block- could not eftimate. Capt. Oliver fays,
houfe flood on the cove making up 300 warriors were flain, and about 350
north-wefterly from the entrance of were taken, with above 300 women and
what is now called Wickford harbor. children. The Conn. Council wrote to
139 Hubbard fays, on the ftory of one Andros (13 Jan., 1675-6), " about 600 of
Potock, afterwards taken, that the In- the Indians, men, women, & children,
dians loft 700 warriors killed, befides as is faid, are flaine." Roger Williams,
300, moft of whom died of their wounds in his account of the examination of
and of expofure, with a number of old Jofhua Tift, fays, he faid that the Indians
men, women, and children, which they "found 97 flaine & 48 wounded, befide
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