[Ill] 



' trary to my Command & Direction, expofing themfelves, 

 ' and the whole Army to utter mine, by their fo diforderly 

 ' crowding thick together ; had an Enemy come upon 

 ' them in that interim, and fired a Volley amongft them, 

 'they could not have mifs'd a fhot; and wholly neglecting 

 - their duty, in not attending my orders, in fearching dili- 

 i gently for our lurking Enemies in their Wigwams, or by 

 ' their fires, where I had great hopes, and real expectation 

 i to meet with them. I moft certainly know that I was in 

 ' an exceeding great Paffion, but not with thofe poor mif- 

 ' erable Enemies; for I took no notice of half a dozen of 

 ' the Enemy, when at the fame time, I expected to be en- 

 ' gaged with fome hundreds of them, of whom we had a 

 'continued account who [in] were expected from Port 

 ' Royal fide. In this heat of action, every word that I then 

 ' fpoke, I cannot give an account of, and I prefume it is 

 ' impomble. 313 I ftop'd but little here, but went directly 



313 Church pleads for himfelf here as properly eftimate his conduct, without 



if he had been blamed, which was the remembering that he had been led, by 



fact. Hutchinfon fays, " Church feeing the ftatements of his prifoners, to 



fome of his men hovering over another believe that he was near to a very 



hut, he called to them to know what large force of the enemy, who might 



they were doing; and upon their reply, fall upon his little company at any mo- 



that there were people in the houfe who ment in overwhelming force, aided, as 



would not come out, he, haftily bid his they would be, by darknefs, the foreft, 



men knock them in the head ; which and their own fuperior knowledge of 



order they immediately obferved- Me the ground; and that he alfo felt, that 



was much blamed for this after his re- the moral effect of fome feverity would 



turn, and excufed himfelf but indiffer- be good upon his favage and half-fav- 



ently. He feared the enemy might fall age foes. It will be feen, that, after- 



upon his men, whom he faw were off ward on his arrival at Baye les Mines, 



their guard, which put him in a paffion." he made ufe of what happened here to 



\Hift. Mafs. ii : 133.] No one can good refults. 



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