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2. The first knowledge the garrison at Casco Neck liad that Indians were in the vicinity, was the approadi of a small party of them led Ijy Moxus, Wanangonet and Assacombuit. They held out their empty hands to show that they were unarmed, then sent a flag of truce to the fort to invite the commander to an inter- view ; pretending that they bore an important mes- sage. Cai^tain March, the commander, went out with two old men to meet them. At the first word uttered every Indian drew a hatchet fro...m under his mantle, and rushed upon them, killing the two old men at once ; but March, being a man of gi-eat courage and strength, wrested a hatchet from an Indian, with which he parried the blows of the others. In a few 6 116 HISTOEY OF MAINE. 1^03 minutes a party from tlie fort reached the spot, and the savages ran away, leaving Captain March unharm- ed. The foe seemed quite disconcerted by the faihire of their plot to kill or capture the commander of the fort; yet they still continued in the neighborhood, burnino; houses and butcherinor cattle.
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