Long did the warlike King Philip ponder on these possibilities with deep bitterness of feeling, until he had lashed himself into a fury by the continued nursing of his wrath, and resolved to strike the exterminating blow against the English.
There were many private wrongs of his people unavenged.

The whites already had assumed a domineering manner, and his final resolution was both natural and patriotic.

King Philip was a man of reason, and it is said he had no hope of success when he began the war.

It was a war against such odds that it must have but one termination, and he had little if any faith in a successful issue.
The Pokanokets had always rejected the Christian manners, and Massasoit had desired to insert in a treaty, what the Puritans never permitted, that the English should never attempt to convert the warriors of his tribe from their religion.
Repeated sales of land narrowed their domains, and the English had artfully crowded them into the tongues of land, as "most suitable and convenient for them," where they would be more easily watched.

The two chief seats of the Pokanokets were the peninsulas now called Bristol and Tiverton.