a canoe wherein were five drowned before their eyes, and many others were not able to paddle; four they took prisoners, whom they brought away with them.There were about 25 Indians present at this encounter.

Much more damage might have been done by our men upon the enemy, if they had known the most direct way to their canoes; but the Indians having prepared all things ready for flight, as well as for fight, the more easily made their escape. One of the captives was sister to Madockawando, who was entertained very courteously by the Commander in Chief, and would have been carried forthwith to her brother in hopes by her means to have gained the better terms for our remaining English captives, had it not been certainly known that he was gone from home upon a hunting design, and not to return in two months.

The English took much plunder from the Indians, about a thousand weight of dry beef, with other things. Megunnaway was shot to death the same day or the next; so that justice is by degrees pursuing those perfidious villains, and they, one after another are brought under the wheel of destruction. Simon, that arch-traitor, seems as is said, by his consumptive looks, to have received the sentence of death, which may bring him into the same place or state with the rest.

Feb. 28, they set sail for Sheepscot, but the wind failing, they put in at Kennebeck, from whence Captain Fisk with 40 men, were sent to the same place to seek after plunder, where they found between 30 and 40 bushels of good wheat, which they brought away with them

several other things they lighted upon here and there, some of which were brought away, such as one or two great guns, from Sagadahock, and boards from Arowsick, where they found an hundred thousand foot, of which they brought home enough for the lading of their vessels, leaving the rest to be transported in a more convenient season.

While our soldiers were upon Arowsick, two of the enemy chanced to come upon the place, and one of them instantly received his reward, the other received his payment in part, which however is supposed to amount to the whole, the canoe wherein he was escaping, being found the next day all bloody, and split asunder.

March 1st, one of the Indian squaws, a captive, was sent to Taconet fort, with a message to the Sagamores to treat for the rest of the captives. Five days were given her to return, which were not expired, when Major Waldern with most of the soldiers were called to return home towards Boston, where they arrived on the 16th of March, 1676-7, having first put in at Portsmouth; bringing along with them bones, or rather the body of Captain Lake, preserved entire and whole, and free from putrefaction by the coldness of the long winter, so as it was found by the one that was near him when he was slain, easily discerned to be his, by such as had known him before.

It is supposed by those that returned, that the eneemy are by this encounter of the English so scattered and broken that they will not be able to rally again suddenly, or make any attempt hereafter, if the present ad

vantage be seriously pursued. Thus have our enemies, many of them fallen into the pit themselves which they have been digging for others.

This day also letters were received from Major Pynchon of Springfield, but without mention of any appearance of the enemy in that quarter: whereby we are encouraged to believe, that they have stumbled and fallen down backward, so that they shall never rise any more to make farther disturbance. That which crowned the present service was the performing it without loss of blood; all safely returning. Let them accordingly remember to pay a suitable tribute of thankfulness to HIM, under whose banner they went forth and returned in safety.

THE END.