The history of King Philip's War

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near the Place, he and his Englijli Men pretendedly fled,
firing on their retreat towards the Indians that purfued
them, and they firing as fall after them. Mr. Howland
being upon his guard, hearing the Guns, and by & by fee-
ing the motion both of the Engli/Ji and Indians, concluded
his friends were diftreffed, was foon on the full Career
on Horfe-back to meet them, until he perceiving their
laughing miftrufted the Truth. As foon as Mr. Church
had given him the News, they hafted away to AwaJJwnks.
Upon their arrival, they were immediately conducted to a
fhelter, open on one fide, whither AwaJJwnks and her
chiefs foon came & paid their Refpedts: and the Multi-
tudes gave fhouts as made the heavens to ring. It being
now about Sun-fetting, or near the dusk of the Evening;
The Netops 215 came running from all quarters loaden with
the tops of dry Pines, & the like combuftible matter
making a hugh pile thereof, near Mr. Churches fhelter, on
the open fide thereof: but by this time Supper was
brought in, [30] in three difhes, viz. a curious young Bafs,
in one difh, Eels & Flat-fifh in a fecond, and Shell-fifh in
a third, but neither Bread nor Salt to be feen at Table.
But by that time Supper was over, the mighty pile of Pine
215 See note 143, ante. The word in- and a definite application (though it
tends friendly Indians. Mr. Drake fug- was fometimes ufed by the Englilh, as
gefts here that the term may be equiva- equivalent to Netop, or 'Indian'). It
lent to Sannofi (citing Winthrop \_your- fignified ' a brave,'— vir, as diftinguifhed
val, i: 49], and Hubbard [Gen. Hist. from homo; and was never applied by
N.E., ; 253] though the latter has San- an Indian to a foreigner, or except to
nap) but Mr. Trumbull fays, " Sa?inop the warriors of his own nation or
had, with the Indians, a more reftridted tribe." [Drake's Church (2d ed.), 91.]
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