oing much damage. You have been poorly paid, but I want hands to go
with me to hunt him."

"We will go with you wherever you please to take us, as long as there
is an Indian left in the woods," they answered. Which made him very
glad.

So again he set forth, from Plymouth, with Lieutenant Jabez Howland and
a few soldiers, and with Scout Captain Lightfoot, the friendly
Sogkonate Indian who had charge of the scouts. He led westward across
southern Massachusetts to the eastern border of Rhode Island Colony.
He arrived there at the end of the week. He had hoped to spend Sunday,
at least, with his family on Aquidneck Island, just opposite, in the
bay; but in the morning there came a courier to tell him that Indians
had been sighted, landing from canoes upon Poppasquash Neck.

Poppasquash Neck was a narrow point, northwest of him, in the upper
portion of Narragansett Bay. It is a fork of the same point upon which
King Phillip had his "royal seat" of Mount Hope, and upon which the
present city of Bristol is located.

Captain Church marched for Poppasquash at once; he was that kind of a
man. He had to cross the arm of the bay here in canoes. By the time
that he had made a round trip and a half, such a wind was blowing that
he was stranded on the point side with only two white soldiers and
fifteen or sixteen scouts.

Yet no whit daunted was bold Captain Church.

"My brave boys, if you are willing, we shall march on across to
Poppasquash and see whether we may not catch some of those enemy
Indians," he said.

March they did, through the thickets and swamps of the base of the main
point, to enter the upper part of the Poppasquash Neck. Here the
captain sent forward Lightfoot the Sogkonate, with three other Indians,
to scout. Lightfoot took with him, as one, a Wampanoag of King
Phillip's defeated army, named Nathaniel. He explained that Nathaniel
knew the signals of the Annawan band, and would be a good decoy.

"If you come upon any of the rogues, do not kill them but take them
prisoner, so that we may learn where Annawan is," Captain Church
directed, to Lightfoot; and Lightfoot promised.

Lightfoot was gone ahead a long time. Captain Church and his little
band proceeded, until they reached the narrowest part of upper
Poppasquash Neck; and here he posted his men, and waited for Lightfoot
to drive the enemy to him, or else appear and report.

He waited until dark, but Lightfoot did not come, nor did any of the