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them to get every thing ready; they that had no Powder- 

 horns nor Shot-bags, mould immediately make them; or- 

 dering the Officers to take fpecial care that they were 

 ready to March into the Woods an hour before day: and 

 alfo directing the Watch to call him two hours before 

 day; fo he haftned to bed to get fome Reft. At the time 

 prefix'd he was call'd, 35 and prefently ordering the Com- 

 pany's to make ready, and about half an hour before day 

 they mov'd ; feveral of the Town People went with them 

 into a thick place of brum, about half a Mile from the 

 Town; 36 now ordering them to fend out their Scouts, as 

 they us'd to do, and feeing them all fettled at their work, he 

 went into Town by Sun rife again, and defired the Inhabi- 

 tants to take care of themfelves, till his men had fitted 

 themfelves with fome neceffaries: for his Indians moft of 

 them wanted both bags and horns; fo he ordered them to 

 make bags like Wallets to put Powder in one end and 

 fhot in the other: So moft of them were ready for a6tion 

 (vzz.) the Second Indians? 1 but the Cape Indians 38 were 



35 This was the morning of Satur- 

 day, 21 Sept., 1689. 



m " A portion of the central part 

 [of the "neck" whereon the city of 

 Portland now ftands] was fwampy and 

 covered with bufhes and trees, and fur- 

 rowed with gullies." [Willis's Journals 

 of Smith &■ Deane, 430.] 



87 See Part I. xxii. Probably all the 

 Sacouct Indians who ferved in this 

 expedition were under the command of 

 Capt. Numpas. 



38 The Indians on Cape Cod had 

 been friendly — with individual excep- 

 tions — through Philip's war. and they 

 now furnilhed foldiers freely to aid the 

 Engliih. As late as the Revolutionary 

 war a lingle Continental regiment had 

 26 Majlipec Indians ; and it was stated, 

 in 1783, by Rev. Mr. Hawley, that moft 

 of the RlaJJifee women loft their huf- 

 bands in the fervice, at one time there 

 being 70 widows there. [Freeman's 

 Hift. Cape Cod, i : 692.] 



