The history of King Philip's War

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ready to affift them in getting over the River. Proceed-
ing in their March, they croffed another River, 211 and
opened a great Bay, 212 where they might fee many Miles
along-more, where were Sands and Flats; and hearing a
great noife below them towards [29] the Sea. They dif-
mounted their Horfes, left them and crep'd among the
bufhes, until they came near the bank, and faw a vaft
company of Indians; of all Ages and Sexs, fome on Horfe-
back running races, fome at Foot-ball, 213 fome catching
Eels & Flat-fifh in the water, fome Clamming, &c. but
which way with fafety to find out what Indians they were,
they were at a lofs. But at length, retiring into a thicket,
Mr. Church hollow'd to them; they foon anfwered him,
and a couple of fmart young Fellows, well mounted, came
upon a full Career to fee who it might be that call'd, and
came juft upon Mr. Church before they difcovered him;
211 In the abfence of any tradition here has a breadth of fix or feven miles;
identifying this ftream, and deciding while it would give him fight of a
merely by my knowledge of the locali- long coaft diftance down what is now
ties, I conceive this to have been what the eaftern and fouthern more of Matta-
is now called " Mill Creek," emptying poilett. I judge, therefore, that the
into Aucoot Cove — which is the firft fands and flats on which Awalhonks
inlet on the coaft fouth-weft of Sippican and her Indians were now encamped
Harbor. were thofe between Aucoot Cove and
212 If I am right in the identification Angelica Point, or between Angelica
of Mill Creek as the ftream laft referred Point and Ned's Point, in Mattapoifett
to, after Church paffed over it, a prog- aforefaid.
refs of lefs than a mile would enable 213 "A game of football in which he
him to look out by the fouth-eaftern was expert, or of quoits, or a wreftling-
extremity of Charles Neck and the bout, or a dance in which women did
overlapping Butter's Point of Great not mingle, afforded fome occafional
Neck (a mile and a half further eaft), variety." [Palfrey's Hijl. N. E. i : 32
and to " open " Buzzard's Bay, which Schoolcraft's Hiji. Ind. Tribes, ii : 78.]
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