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¶ Among all the Nations of wild Salvages by which the vast Territory of New-England was inhabited, scarce any was more potent or populous than that of the Narragansetts. Unto those miserable Heathen was the Gospel, and a Gospel without charges too, offered by some English preachers of it, but they peremptorily with much affront & contempt refused the Glad tidings of Salvation by Jesus Christ, preferring their own devilish Rites & gods before the New Thing tendered unto them. An holy man, then famous throughout our Churches, hereupon let shall a speech to this purpose, I speak altogether without the Spirit of God, if this nation be not speedily & remarkably destroyed. And so it happened. This Nation, much against the advice of the more aged men among them, engaged in the late bloody armed Conspiracy with the other Indians in the Country to cut off the English: in prosecution of which, after they had done many Acts of Hostility, the English Army took the just provocation in the depth of Winter to assault the strong Fort & Swamp in which was their General Rendezvous. The Number of our Forces was much inferior unto theirs, but with a wonderful Valour, & memorable Success, on our part, the Day was carried against the tawny Infidels. Their City was laid in Ashes, two and twenty ⟨p. 4⟩of their Chief Captains were killed, with we know not how many Hundreds or Thousands of the common Indians; after which, mortal Sickness & horrid Famine pursued the Remainders of them; so that there are scarce any of them that we know of, to be now seen upon the face of the Earth.