The history of King Philip's War

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along the River, and examining the Prifoners, found that
it was Qunnappin and the Narraganfcts, that were drawing
off from thofe parts towards the Narraganfet Country, he
inquired of the Prifoners, Whether Philip were gone in the
fame Track ? they told him, They did not know, for he fled
in a great fright when the firfi Englifh Gun was fired, and
they had none of them feen or heard any thing of him fiince.
Capt. Church left part of his Company there to fecure the
Prifoners they got, and to pick up what more they could
find; and with the reft of his company hafted in the Track
of the Enemy to over-take them, if it might be, before
they got over the River, and ran fome Miles along the
River until he came unto a place where the Indians had
waded over; 274 and he with his Company waded over
after them up to the Arm-pits; being almoft as wet be-
fore with Sweat as the River could make them: Follow-
ing about a Mile further, and not overtaking them, and the
may be confidered, whether there be Bermudas. [Davis's Morton's Mem.
not ibme fpecialtj and fomewhat ex- 454.]
traordinary in it. That law, Deut. ~74 While bathing, when a boy, in this
xxiv : 16, compared with the com- river, I have often waded acrois on a
mended example of Amaziah, 2 C/iron. bar which a local tradition affigns as
xxv : 4, doth fway much with me in the place where the Indians croffed on
the cafe under confideration. I hope this occafion. It is, if I remember cor-
God will direct thofe whom it doth redtly, perhaps a mile and a quarter
concern to a good iffue, &c. &c." By a up ftream from the junction of the
letter from Mr. Cotton to Dr. Mather, Nemafket with the Taunton, and nearly
20 March, 1677, which contains this due weft of the refidence of the late
paffing remark, " Philip's boy goes now Cephas Thompfon, Efq., in Middle-
to be fold," it is made almoft certain borough. If the pofition of the tree
that, with his mother, he fhared the was where I fuppofe it to have been
fate of fo many of his nation, and went (fee note 270, ante), this fuits very well
to fpend his fpared life in Cadiz, or the the demands of the narrative.
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