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Edulcorator. A brief essay on the waters of Marah sweetened
Edulcorator. A brief essay on the waters of Marah sweetened. : With a remarkable relation of the deplorable [sic] occasion afforded for it, in the premature death of Captain Josiah Winslow, who (with several of his company) sacrificed his life, in the service of his country; engaging an army of Indians, May 1. 1724. : [Three lines of quotation in Latin]Edulcorator. A brief essay on the waters of Marah sweetened. : With a remarkable relation of the deporable [sic] occasion afforded for it, in the praemature death of Captain Josiah Winslow, who (with several of his company) sacrificed his life, in the service of his country; engaging an army of Indians, May 1. 1724. : [Three lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1725
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BEING left at Georges Fort, in command of the Garrison there, on the Thirtieth of April, 1724. He went from thence, with Seventeen Men in Two Whale-boats, down to an Island, called, The Green-Island, some Miles below the Fort; hoping to come at some Indians there, inasmuch as there had several times been seen In•••ns pa•sing thither in a Canoe, it being a notable fowling-place. He was observed for diverse Hours before he went upon this Action, to retire, ⟨p. 30⟩very Serious and Pensive; and no doubt, full of such Thoughts as might have a Tendency to Prepare his Young Soul, for that Felicity, which would accomplish the Particular Faith which the Travailing Soul of his Gracious Mother [a Sarah now become a Marah!] had received and expressed for him▪ And he let fall Words to the Company which he left behind him, that seemed somewhat Presagious of what he was going to. When they came to the Island, they haled up their Boats among the Bushes; and lay close all the Night, & the next Day until almost Night. Not seeing any Indians, they then went off the Island in their Boats, when the Sun was about Two Hours High (Friday) in the Afternoon. The Divine Providence Ordered it▪ that this was what might be called, a Launching into the Mare•mortuum. After their going down to this Island, a great Body of Indians, of the Penobscot-Tribe, (with some others,) the party that afterwards took the Vessels at Cap-Sables, to the Number as was Judged, of Two or Three Hundred Men, came down the River in their Canoes, and lodged themselves with their Canoes, on both sides of the River betwixt the Island and the Fort. Here they lay undiscovered by ours, as ours were by them, until they put off in their Boats from the Island. After they had come some Distance ⟨p. 31⟩from the Island, Capt. Winslow being in the foremost Boat, and Sergeant Harvey in the other, there came a Flock of Fowl within Shot of Harvey's, at which one of the Men Imprudently made a Shot, and knocked down a Fowl in the Water. Harvey turning to take up the Fowl, Capt. Winslow advised him, that it was best he should not follow the Fowl, but that they should keep together; for, said he, We know not what we may meet with, before we reach the Fort. Harvey replied, Sir, If you will go easy upon your Oars, I will be presently up with you: