The history of King Philip's War

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call'd them treacherous Dogs, as fome of them would
fometimes do, all the notice he would take of it, would
only be to clap them on the back, and tell them, Come,
come, you look wild and furly, and mutter, but thatJignifies
nothing, thefe my bejl Sou Idlers were a little while a go as
wild andfuriy as you are now ; by that time you have been
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but one day along with me, you 1 love me too, and be as brisk
as any of them. And it prov'd fo. For there was none
of them but (after they had been a little while with him,
and fee his behaviour, and how chearful and fuccefsful his
Men were) would be as ready to Pilot him to any place
where the Indians dwelt or haunted (tho' their own
Fathers or neareft Relations mould be among them) or to
fight for him, as any of his own Men.
Capt. Church was in two particulars much advantaged
by the great Engllfli Army 264 that was now abroad. One
was, that they drove the Enemy down to that part of the
Country, viz. to the Eaftward of Taunton River by which
means his bulinefs was nearer home. The other was that
when ever he fell on with a pufh upon any body of the
Enemy (were they never fo many) they fled expecting
the great Army. And his manner of Marching thro' the
Woods was fuch, as if he were difcovered, they appeared
264 Befides the Plymouth troops un- der Capts. Brattle and Mofely, were
der Major Bradford, to whom Church affociated with Bradford's men ; befides
has herein referred ; Major Talcot was Henchman's forces, which were fcour-
in the field with fome 250 Englifh and ing the interior woods. [Palfrey's Hiji.
200 Mohegans from Connecticut, and N. E. iii : 197; Barry's HiJl. Mafs. i:
two companies from Mafiachufetts, un- 444, 445.]