The history of King Philip's War

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being asked, What Indians they were} He anfwered, Some
Weetemores Indians, fome Mowzt-hope Indians, fome Nar-
raganfet Indians, and fome other Upland Indians, in all
about 300. The Rhode-IJland Boats by the Majors order
meeting them at PocaJ/et, they were foon imbark'd, it
being jult in the dusk of the Evening, they could plainly
difcover the Enemies fires at the Place the Indian directed
to; 201 and the Army concluded no other but they were
bound [28] direftly thither, until the}' came to the North
End of the Ifland, and heard the word of Command for the
Boats to bare away. 202
Mr. Church was very fond of
having this probable opportunity of furprizing that whole
Company of Indians imbraced: But Orders, 'twas faid,
muft be obeyed, which was to go to Mount-hope and there
to fight Philip. This with fome other good opportunities
of doing fpoil upon the Enemy, being unhappily mifs'd. 203
201 The exact fpot where the Indians Hope Cove, would haul ftraight to the
were digging clams and eating them weft, and, if they were to land at Briftol
would feem to have been on the fouth- neck, fharp to the ibuth-weft.
eaftern curve of what is now called 2a3 The narrative does not certainly
Touiffett neck ; from whence fires would indicate whether the army kept Sab-
be vifible acrofs the bay at Pocaffet; bath at Mount Hope, or, finding Philip
where Maj. Bradford's army could was not there, puihed on at once up
fcarcely be diftant from them five miles Mount-Hope neck and acrofs Miles's
in a ftraight line. bridge to Rehoboth ; though the prob-
202 They probably embarked at what abilities feem to be ftrong that they did
was then the Ferry, — now fpanned by not march to Rehoboth until they had,
the "Stone Bridge," — from whence, for at leaft, fearched for the Indians whom
two miles and a half, their natural they had feen the night before at Weycourfe
would lie directly towards the poifet. I imagine that the " other good
light of the fires. When well up with opportunities" to which Church refers
the north end of Rhode-Ifland, their as being " miffed," had reference to fev-
courfe, if they were going to Mount- eral fruitlefs attempts, occupying feveral
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