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' down to him, to come up to him to advife about the 

 ' Indian Army, that was to go Weftward ; but he had 

 ' returned him anfwer, his bufinefs was urgent, and he 

 ' could not come up : and that Skarkee, and the Indians, 

 ' would certainly be down that day, or the next at the fur- 

 * theft, to come to conclude of that matter. This was a 

 ' fhort Nights action, and all fenfible Men do well know, 

 ' that actions done in the dark (being in the Night as 

 ' aforefaid) under fo many difficulties, as we then laboured 

 ' under, as before related, was a very hard Task for one 

 ' Man, matters being circumftanc'd as in this action; which 

 'would not admit of calling a Council; and at that time 

 'could not be confin'd there-unto; at which time I was 

 ' tranfported above fear or any fort of dread; yet being 

 ' fenfible of the danger in my Armies crowding fo thick 

 ' together, and of the great duty incumbent on me to pre- 

 ' ferve them from all the danger I poffibly could, for fur- 

 1 ther improvement, in the Deftruction of our implacable 

 ' Enemies; am ready to conclude, that I was very quick & 

 ' abfolute in giving fuch Commands & Orders, as I then ap- 

 ' prehended moft proper and advantagious. And had it not 

 ' been for the Intelligence I had received from the French 

 1 we took at Penobfcot, as before hinted, and the falfe re- 

 ' port the French Woman (firft took) gave me, I had not 

 ' been in fuch hafte. I queftion not but thofe French men 

 ' that were flain, had the fame good quar[ii2]ter of other 

 ' Prifoners. But I ever look'd at it a good Providence of 

 ' Almighty God, that fome few of our cruel & bloody 

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