. New England; a human interest geographical reader. ith a kinsman to help him, went back to thesettlements. By the time the force reached Ossipee Pond in NewHampshire the serious illness of one of their numbercaused them all to halt, and they built there a smallstockade fort. There they left the sick man with asurgeon and eight of the most weary of the rest continued their march toward what is nowknown as Lovewells Pond in Fryeburg, Maine, twenty-two miles distant. On the night of Friday, May sev-enth, they encamped by a brook that enters the pondat the northwest corner. Only two mi
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. ith a kinsman to help him, went back to thesettlements. By the time the force reached Ossipee Pond in NewHampshire the serious illness of one of their numbercaused them all to halt, and they built there a smallstockade fort. There they left the sick man with asurgeon and eight of the most weary of the rest continued their march toward what is nowknown as Lovewells Pond in Fryeburg, Maine, twenty-two miles distant. On the night of Friday, May sev-enth, they encamped by a brook that enters the pondat the northwest corner. Only two miles farther onwas Pigwacket, the principal village of the Indians ofthat region. The next morning, while the adventurers were at Historic Maine 325 prayers, the report of a gun was heard. They wentalong north of the pond in the direction whence thesound came, and had arrived on a level plain whenthey saw an Indian standing on a point that thrustout into the pond on the east side. The men left theirpacks among the ferns and moved cautiously Indian Island above Oldtown. This is the a remnant of the once powerful Penobscot tribe In a short time they met the Indian returning towardthe village, and fired and killed him. Meanwhile, a party of Indians led by Paugus, thechief of the tribe, found the packs which had beenleft on the plain. They counted them and foundthat their own force was three times as strong as thatof the English. It was now about ten oclock. Love-well and his men started to go back the way they had 326 New England come. They had passed over a stream, since known asBattle Brook, and were crossing the plain when thesavages came rushing toward them from front andrear yelling Hke demons. The English responded withdetermined shouts, and fired a volley that made theIndians withdraw somewhat. But the savages soon pressed near again, and some ofthe combatants were not more than twice the lengthof their guns apart when they fired. Captain Love-well
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