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Enthusiasm aroused. The old man a guide. Arrival at Annawan's retreat. Drake's description of the place. Annawan's retreat. Annawan's retreat. Employments of the Indians. Precipitous descent. Mode of entering the retreat. Annawan captured. A quiet surrender. A grand repast. Attempted repose. Effect of excitement. Disappearance of Annawan. A magnificent present. Address to Captain Church.

But Annawan is a renowned and veteran warrior. He served under Pometacom's father, and has been Pometacom's chief captain during this war. He is a very subtle man, a man of great energy, and has often said that he would never be taken alive by the English. Moreover, the warriors who are with him are very resolute men. We therefore fear that it would be impossible to take him with so small a band.

He and Annawan lay for a few minutes, eyeing one another the white captain and the red captain. Captain Church would have given a great deal to know what Captain Annawan was thinking. Presently Annawan cast off his blanket and stood up. Without a word, he walked away through the moonlight, until he disappeared among the trees. Captain Church did not call out. That would have been sign of fear.

"Since you have given us our lives, we are obliged to serve you," he answered. He was a courtly old man. "Captain Annawan and his people are camped under a great rock in the midst of the swamp, north from here. Come and I will show you." Thereupon Captain Church pressed forward to the vast swamp, with his one white man and five Indians, to capture Chief Annawan and his fifty or sixty.

The next morning all the prisoners were sent forward to Plymouth excepting Annawan. Captain Church was anxious to save his life, and took the old chieftain with him to Rhode Island. After a few days he returned with him to Plymouth.

Old Annawan, starting from his recumbent posture, and supposing himself surrounded by the English army, exclaimed, "Ho-woh," I am taken, and sank back upon the ground in despair. Their arms were instantly secured, and perfect silence was commanded on pain of immediate death.

He had, however, but half a dozen men with him, and it was necessary to send a messenger back to acquaint those who had been left of his design. Collecting his little band together, he inquired if they were ready to go with him to endeavor to take Annawan. The enterprise appeared to them all very perilous. They replied, "We are willing to obey your commands.

But if they stay quiet till morning, they will have good quarter and be carried to Taunton, to see their friends already there. As for you," he spoke to Annawan, "you will be well treated, also; and at Plymouth I will ask my masters to spare your life." The scouts made the talk, and brought in all the guns and hatchets, so that now Captain Church was in possession of the whole camp.

Then he went with these also, to Plymouth. If Captain Church had stayed at Plymouth, very likely he would have saved the life of old Annawan, whom he much admired. However, he was ordered out upon another hunt, which resulted in the surrender, this time, of Chief Tispaquin.

"In his fate, forget his crimes." Annawan. Plan for his capture. The march. A violent gale. Resolution. Reluctance of the Indians. Uncomfortable night. Successful decoy. The plan repeated. Making proselytes. Advantages to be gained. A feast. The Indians in good-humor. Women captured. Capture of an old man. His story. A new enterprise proposed. Energetic resolve of Captain Church.