[no] 



' out of the brufh into the Bay, (it being very broad in 

 ' that place) 311 with their Canoo's, they might take and 

 ' deftroy them. Ordering the remainder of the Army, 

 ' being landed, 312 (with my felf and the other Officers) 

 ' to March up into the Woods, with a wide Front, and 

 ' to keep at a confiderable diftance; for that if they mould 

 ' run in heaps, the Enemy would have the greater advan- 

 tage : and further directing them that if poffible, they 

 ' mould deftroy the Enemy with their Hatches, and not 

 ' fire a Gun. This order I alwayes gave at landing, tell- 

 ' ing them the inconveniency of firing, in that it might be 

 ' firft dangerous [no] to themfelves, they being many of 

 ' them Young Souldiers, (as I had fometimes obferved, 

 ' that one or two Guns being fired, many others would 

 ' fire, at they knew not what; as happened prefently after) 

 ' and it would alarm the Enerrry, and give them the oppor- 

 ' tunity to make their efcape; and it might alarm the whole 

 ' Country, and alfo prevent all further action from taking 

 i effect Orders being thus paffed, we moved directly 

 ' towards the Woods, Le Faver's Son directing us to a 

 ' little Hutt or Wigwam, which we immediately fur- 

 ' rounded with a few Men, the reft Marching directly up 

 ' into the Woods, to fee what Wigwams or Hutts they 

 ' could difcover; my felf made a little ftop, Ordering the 

 * Pilot to tell them in the Hutt, that they were furrounded 



311 They had now emerged from the 312 They muft have landed upon what 

 narrow weftern entrance into upper is now the town of Perry, Me. ; or poffi- 

 PafTamaquoddy bay, which is fome S or bly further up, in Robbinfton, or the 

 10 miles in width. lower part of Calais. 



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