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Captain Church, highly gratified, took with him three or four men as a body-guard, and hastened to Sandwich. Disappointed in not finding Awashonks there, he went to Agawam, in the present town of Wareham; still not finding her, he crossed Mattapoiset River, and ascended a bluff which commanded a wide prospect of Buzzard's Bay.
They, the next day, continued their journey, and crossing in a canoe the arm of the bay, which there runs far inland and three miles beyond, with much anxiety approached the dwelling-place of Corbitant at Mattapoiset, in the present town of Swanzey.
Corbitant, their outwardly-reconciled enemy, accompanied them as far as his house in what is now Swanzey. "That night," writes Mr. Winslow, "through the earnest request of Corbitant, we lodged with him at Mattapoiset.
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