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Who is King Philip from Colonial American Travel Narratives and what is their importance?

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King Philip, also called Metacomet, is the leader of a group of Native Americans from different tribes who wage a steady war against the English colonists. Mary Rowlandson is taken to a large encampment where Philip is living and meets the chief, who asks her to make a shirt for his son.