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"Old Annawan is out," he said. "He is among the last of King Phillip's men. I have reliable word that he is kenneling in Squannaconk and doing 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.
But right soon a message reached him, from Rehoboth, of southern Massachusetts north of Rhode Island, that Head Captain Annawan was "kenneling" in Squannaconk Swamp, and plundering the farms outside. Being a true citizen, and knowing that the settlers looked to him for aid, Captain Church, instead of resting up, sought his faithful lieutenant, Jabez Howland, and others of his former company.
Threatening them with terrible punishment if they deceived him with any falsehood, he examined them apart. Both agreed that they had been lately in Annawan's camp; that he had with him about sixty Indians, and that he was at but a few miles' distance, in Squannaconk Swamp, in the southeasterly part of Rehoboth. "Can I get there to-night?" inquired Captain Church.
No time was to be lost, for Squannaconk swamp contained three thousand acres, and if he did not start at once he might lose Annawan in the darkness. He sent his horse back. The old Indian said that the swamp was too thick with brush, for a horse. He sent the Indian young man and two other prisoners back, with the horse.
"We come from Captain Annawan's." "How many are there with him?" "Fifty or sixty." "How many miles is it to the spot where you left him?" "I do not know how to count in miles," she said. "He is up in the great Squannaconk swamp." The old man proved to be one of Annawan's councillors. He gave the same answers as the young squaw, his daughter. "Can we get to Annawan by night?"
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