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Now having got fome Plunder, 117 One of the Captains 

 laid it was time to go home, and feveral others were 

 of the fame mind; and the Major being much difturb'd 

 at the Motion of theirs, expecting the Enemy would 

 come in a very fhort time where they might have a 

 great advantage of them, &c. Notwithstanding all he 

 could fay or do, he was oblig'd to call a Council, accord- 

 ing to his [74] Inftructions, wherein he was out-voted. 

 The faid Commander feeing he was put by of his inten- 

 tions profer'd if 60 Men would ftay with him he would 

 not imbark as yet; but all that he could fay or do could not 

 prevail; 118 then they Mov'd to the Veffels and Imbark'd, 

 and as they were going in the Veffels on the back fide of 

 Mayr-point they difcovered 8 or 9 Canoo's, who turn'd 

 fhort about, and went up the River; being the fame In- 

 dians that the Major expected, and would have waited for; 

 and the aforefaid Captain being much difturb'd at what 

 the Major had faid to him, drew off from the Fleet, and 

 in the Night run aground; 119 in the Morning Anthony 



himfelfe knew within half a mile where der: of which a pretty deale of powder 



it was hid. This made us alter our and lhot." Letter [Ibid.'] 



former intention ; and took fhip and 118 The only paragraph in Church's 



failed to a place more eaftward then letter which can be conftrued into any 



Macquait (called Mare Point [the reference to this conflict between him 



fouth extremity of Brunfwick, Me.]) and his fubordinates is this: "Many 



Landed our men by daylight, about crofs things falling out to fruftrate the 



250: marched round in the woods: defigne, too long here to relate: but 



fome upon the eaftward of Pechef- from Major Pike your honors will hear 



/butt." Letter [Ibid, p. 94.] more at large." [Ibid. p. 97.] 



in « When we got upon the Plaine 119 The letter fays : — 



we parted into 3 companies : found none "As god would have it one of our 



of the enemie ; but we found the plun- veffells run aground, which we did not 

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