Decennium luctuosum An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath…

ARTICLE. III. The First Expedition of the English, against the Indians.

When the Keeper of the Wild Beasts, at Florence, ha's entertained the Spectators, with their Encounters on the Stage, he ha's this Device to make 'em Retire into the several Dens of their Seraglio. He ha's a fearful Machine of Wood, made like a Gre•t Green Dragon, which a man within it roles upon Wheels, and holding out a Couple of Lighted Torches at the Eyes of ⟨p. 26⟩it, frights the fiercest Beast of them all, into the Cell that belongs unto him. Sir Edmond Andros, the Governor of New-England, that he might Express his Resolutions, to force the Wild Beasts of the East into order, in the Winter now coming on, turned upon them as Effectual a Machine, as the Green Dragon of Florence; that is to say, An Army of near a Thousand men. With this Army, he marched himself in Person, into the Caucasaean Regions, where he built a Fort at Pemaquid, and another Fort at Pechypscot Falls, besides the Fort at Sheepscote. He, and his Army, underwent no little Hard ship, thus in the Depth of Winter to Expose themselves unto the Circumstances of a Campaign, in all the Bleak Winds and Thick Snows of that Northern Country. But it was Hoped, That Good Forts, being thus Garrisoned with Stout Hearts, in several Convenient places, •he Indians might be kept from their usual Retreats, both for Planting, and for Fishing, and lye open also to perpetual Incursions from the English, in the fittest seasons thereof: And it was Thought by the most sensible, this method would in a little while compel the Enemy to Submit unto any Terms: albeit others considering the Vast Woods of the Wilderness, and the French on the back of these Woods, fancied, that this was but a project to Hedge in the Cuckoo. However, partly the Army, and partly the Winter, frighted the Salvages, into their Inaccessible