The history of King Philip's War

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eat Cow-beaf or Horfe-beaf, The Captain told him Cow-beaf
would be moft acceptable: It was foon got ready, and pul-
ling his little bag of Salt out of his Pocket, which was all
the Provision he brought with him; this feafon'd his Cow-
beaf fo that with it and the dry'd green-corn, which the old
Squaw was pounding in the Mortar, 354 while they were
Hiding down the Rocks, he made a very hearty Supper.
And this pounding in the Mortar proved lucky for Capt.
Churches getting down the Rocks, for when the old Squaw
pounded they moved, and when fhe ceafed to turn the corn,
they ceafed creeping, the noife of the Mortar prevented the
Enemies hearing their creeping: and the corn being now
dreffed fupplyed the want of Bread, and gave a fine relifh
with the Cow-beaf. Supper being over, Capt. Church fent
two of his men to inform the other companies, that he had
killed Philip, and had taken their friends in Mount-hope
Neck, 355 but had fpared their lives, and that he had fub-
dued now all the Enemy ( he fuppofed ) excepting this
company of Annawons, and now if they would be orderly
and keep their places until Morning, they mould have good
quarter, and that he would carry them to Taunton, where
they might fee their friends again, &c. The Meffengers
854 "The mode of pounding dry times a depreffion in the face of a rock."
maize, by the grain-raiting tribes, va- [Schoolcraft's Inf. reffiefling the Ind.
ried confiderably. It was a fpecies Tribes iii : 466.]
of work left wholly to the women, who 356 That is, thofe whom Annawon had
generally exercifed their ingenuity in fent down to Poppafquafh, and the
its reduction. When circumftances fa- regions beyond it, after provifions
vored it, mortars and peftles of ftone whom Church had captured the day
were employed. The mortar was fome- before.
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