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a similar report. They therefore continued the march in order to arrive there that evening. In three hours the remainder of the scouts joined the party.

At a league from the dwellings of the English, council was held to determine in what way they should make the assault. It was resolved to separate into two parties to attack from both sides of the river, and begin the attack at dawn the following day. They separated at sunset to spread out during the night along the side which was most thickly settled. Each party was divided into several little groups all to make the attack at the same time.

They captured two small forts that were without garrison, to which the seigneurs of the place and some of the inhabitants had retired. They killed one hundred and four persons and took twenty-seven prisoners. Sixty houses were pillaged and burned. There was also a number of animals killed. They then retired to the place where the separation had been made the preceding evening. When all had arrived they proceeded to go to sleep upon a naturally fortified rock with the intention of waiting there if the enemy pursued them.

On the twenty-eighth, they departed rather late but made more than fifteen leagues during the day. On the twenty-ninth, the band arrived at the place where they had left the canoes, in which the greater part of the people embarked without provisions.

Thirty of the savages of Pantaguoet were piqued at not having taken as many prisoners and as much booty as those from Kanibeki, because they had not found sufficient opportunity in the place upon which they had fallen At the solicitation of Sieur de Villieu and of Taxous, about fifty others detached themselves to follow those who were piqued at the little they had taken, and the party was joined also by some of the bravest of the Kanibats. They determined to go below Boston, and then, dividing into small parties of four or five, to surprise people and knock