said he, "none will hurt you." Then came one of them and gave
me two spoonfuls of meal to comfort me, and another gave me half
a pint of peas; which was more worth than many bushels at
another time. Then I went to see King Philip. He bade me come
in and sit down, and asked me whether I would smoke it (a usual
compliment nowadays amongst saints and sinners) but this no way
suited me. For though I had formerly used tobacco, yet I had
left it ever since I was first taken. It seems to be a bait the
devil lays to make men lose their precious time. I remember
with shame how formerly, when I had taken two or three pipes, I
was presently ready for another, such a bewitching thing it is.
But I thank God, He has now given me power over it; surely there
are many who may be better employed than to lie sucking a
stinking tobacco-pipe.

Now the Indians gather their forces to go against Northampton.
Over night one went about yelling and hooting to give notice of
the design. Whereupon they fell to boiling of ground nuts, and
parching of corn (as many as had it) for their provision; and in
the morning away they went. During my abode in this place,
Philip spake to me to make a shirt for his boy, which I did, for
which he gave me a shilling. I offered the money to my master,
but he bade me keep it; and with it I bought a piece of horse
flesh. Afterwards he asked me to make a cap for his boy, for
which he invited me to dinner. I went, and he gave me a
pancake, about as big as two fingers. It was made of parched
wheat, beaten, and fried in bear's grease, but I thought I never
tasted pleasanter meat in my life. There was a squaw who spake
to me to make a shirt for her sannup, for which she gave me a
piece of bear. Another asked me to knit a pair of stockings,