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Corn, when he was a Prifoner with them, four Years a 

 goe, and that he was very well acquainted there; this 

 gave great incouragement to have had fome confiderable 

 advantage of the Enemy at that Place; fo ufing their ut- 

 moft endeavours to get up there undifcovered : and coming 

 there found no Enemy nor Corn Planted, they having de- 

 ferted the Place. And ranging about the Falls on both 

 fides of the River, leaving Men on the Eaft fide of the faid 

 River, and the Boats juft below the Falls, 211 with a good 

 guard to fecure them, and to take the Enemy if they came 

 down the River in their Canoo's: The weft fide being the 

 Place where the Enemy lived and beft to travel on, they 

 refolved to range as privately as they could, a Mile or two 

 above the Falls, difcovered a birch Canoo coming down 

 with two Indians in it, the Major fent word immediately 

 back to thofe at the Falls to lye very clofe, and let them 

 pais down the Falls, and to take them alive, that he might 

 have Intelligence where the Enemy was (which would 

 have been a great advantage to them:) but a foolifh [90] 

 Souldier feeing them pafling by him, fhot at them, con- 

 trary to orders given, which prevented them going into 

 the Ambafcado that was laid for them ; whereupon feveral 

 more of our Men being near, fhot at them; fo that one of 

 them could not ftand when he got a-fhore, but crept away 

 into the brum, the other ftep'd out of the Canoo with his 

 Paddle in his hand, and ran about a rod, and then threw 



211 Williamfon fays they left their boats at the " Bend," in what is now Edding- 

 ton. \_HiJi. Me. i : 645.] 



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