. The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars. chmen and an Indian, before they could makegood their escape, from whom, under threats of obtained some reliable information as to thenumbers and positions of the enemy in this then pretended to relent. In gratitude for havingtheir lives spared, two of the prisoners piloted Churchto several small habitations of the French in Penob-scot Bay, that of St. Castiu among the rest. St. Castin, Matinicus lio^ out in the open ocean, seventeen miles soutlieast of Owls TToud ; thelonely outpo
. The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars. chmen and an Indian, before they could makegood their escape, from whom, under threats of obtained some reliable information as to thenumbers and positions of the enemy in this then pretended to relent. In gratitude for havingtheir lives spared, two of the prisoners piloted Churchto several small habitations of the French in Penob-scot Bay, that of St. Castiu among the rest. St. Castin, Matinicus lio^ out in the open ocean, seventeen miles soutlieast of Owls TToud ; thelonely outpost of IVnobscot Bay. ■« fJiiEEN Islands of the Fox Islands Kroup are probably meant. 1704] CHURCHS LAST EXPEDITION 197 himself, was luckily gone to France, but his wife andchildren fell into Churchs hands. All of the enemy metwith here, whether French or Indians, were either killedor taken, though the actual numbers are unknown. Mount Desert was next visited. On the way thereevery nook and corner of the coast was thoroughly ex-plored, every possible precaution taken to waylay any. ENTRAKCE TO MOUNT DESERT HARBOR. of the enemys war-parties who might be comingwestward on one of their destructive raids, and forwhom Church was now so sharply on the lookout. Fail-ing to make any discoveries of this nature, Churchsflotilla rowed on into what is now the Southwest Harborof Mount Desert, a primeval solitude of wild sublimity,suddenly turned into a scene of unwonted activity bythe presence of the ships-of-war and transports, lyingthere at anchor. 198 THE BORDER WARS OF NEW ENGLAND [1704 Tlie expedition had now traversed something likefifty leagues of coast without effecting anything of con-sequence, while the labor involved in making these
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