884 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



was pained over their minds; they were disarmed of their rage; they 

 were made friends and fellow-subjects, lu King Philip's war all the 

 Indian nations on the main were confederated against the English. 

 Alarm and tenor were diffused on every side ; but Governor Mayhew 

 was so well satisfied with the fidelity of these Indians that be employed 

 them as a guard, iuruished them with the necessary ammunition, and 

 gave them instructions how to conduct themselves for the common safety 

 in this time of imminent danger. So faithful were they that they not 

 only rejected the strong and repeated solicitations of the natives on the 

 main to engage in hostilities, but when any landed from it, in obedience 

 to their orders which had been given them, they carried them, though 

 sometimes their near relations, to the governor, to attend his pleasure. 

 The English, convinced by these proofs of the sincerity of their friendship, 

 took no care of their own defense, but left it entirely to the Indians, and 

 the storm of war which raged on the continent was not suffered to ap- 

 proach, but these islands enjoyed the calm of peace. This was the genuine 

 and happy effects of Mr. Mayhew's wisdom and of the introduction of 

 the Christian religion among the Indians." 



The Indians of Cape Cod had been very generally christianized be- 

 fore King Philip's war broke out, and most of them remained faithful to 

 their white neighbors, and aided in protecting the cape against hostile 

 invasion. It is very probable that some of 1 hem left the praying towns 

 to join Phillip, as did many from the praying towns near Boston. In 

 the records of drafts of men levied in Massachusetts and Plymouth 

 colonies to tight Philip are found the names of southern or friendly 

 Indians. About twenty of these Indians, under the leadership of an 

 Indian of the Wampanoag tribe, named Captain Amos, living at or near 

 Cape Cod, took part in the disastrous fight near Kehoboth. Rev. Noah 

 Newman, in writing of this encounter, states that Capt. Michael Peirse, 

 with fifty-one of his soldiers and eleven of these friendly Indians, were 

 killed. Because of the friendly attitude of the Cape Cod, Martha's 

 Vineyard, and Nantucket Indians toward the whites, the Indian his- 

 tory of these places is not so eventful as that of the rest of the Wampa- 

 noag country lying between Buzzard's Bay and Narragansett Bay. The 

 farmers in the latter region have pointed out to me the past summer 

 the swamp, at the foot of Mount Hope, where Philip was shot, and the 

 place where Benjamin Church encountered Tuspaquiu and his warriors 

 on Assawam sett Neck, in Lakeville, Mass., and many other places made 

 memorable during this bloody Indian war. On Cape Cod and adjacent 

 islands there were no hostilities during King Phillip's war, and all 

 encounters between these Indians and the whites took place at a very 

 early date, when white explorers thought it expedient to plunder 

 and kidnap the natives, and they in turn thought best to kill the 

 crew of any shipwrecked vessel, and so secure the plunder. On 

 Nantucket, Gookin writes that some bad Indians committed this of- 

 fense even later than the year 1G49, and were punished for it. In the 



