and one Frenchman to discover, who went out, and stood in the path till the army came to them, after fouer hund rd Sinnakes appeared att the right side of the army, where the French Indians were and with greate cry or shout, fyred upon them without wounding one mann being too farr off, butt the Sinnakes advancing came nearer by, and fyred againe, then the French and a little time

Indians got some wounded, who fyred also

upon the Sinnakes and wounded some of them, but the

Sinnakes came so neare, and tooke an Indian out of the French army, and cutt off his hands, the rest firing stoutly upon one and the other, till the Douwaganhas and other

out returning to the

French Indians fled withfight, butt the Maquass came up againe and stood their ground till the whole

body of the French, came firing all att once upon the Sinnakes, soe that the Sinnakes retreated, having got some dead and wounded in that firing the Gov 1 forbidd following of them having gott seven Frenchmen killed and many wounded and five dead Indians and several wounded of the ;

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r Sinnakes were killed sixteene and some wounded ; forthwith the Gov gave orders that the army

should fortify themselves at the same place where the Battle was and so stood there all that night. Next morning the whole army marched towards the Sinnakes Castle called Kokoseraghe, leaving their