From Benjamin Church's account of the war as written by his son Thomas in 1716:
Captain Church [militia leader in King Philip's War] was in two particulars much advantaged by the great English army that was now  abroad. One was, that they drove the enemy down to that part of the country, viz., to the eastward of the Taunton River, by which means his business was nearer home. The other was that whenever he fell on with a push upon any body of the enemy (were they never so many), they fled, expecting the great army. And his manner of marching through the woods was such, as if he were discovered, they appeared to be more than they were. For he always marched at a wide distance, one from another, partly for their safety; and this was an Indian custom, to march thin and scatter. Captain Church enquired of some of the Indians that were become his soldiers, how they got such advantage often of the English in their marches through the woods. They told him that the Indians gained great advantage of the English by two things: the Indians always took care in their marches and fights not to come too thick together. But the English always kept in a heap together; that it was as easy to hit them as to hit an house. The other was, that if any time they discovered a company of English soldiers in the woods they knew that there was all, for the English never scattered, but the Indians always divided and scattered.
Quoted in King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict, by Eric B. Schultz and Michael J. Tougias (The Countryman Press, 1999).