 Standish arrived with a group of men to find that the small band at Merrymount had barricaded themselves within a small building . Morton eventually decided to attack the men from Plymouth , but the Merrymount group was allegedly too drunk to handle their weapons . Morton aimed a weapon at Standish , which the captain purportedly ripped from Morton 's hands . Standish and his men took Morton to Plymouth and eventually sent him back to England . Later , Morton wrote the book New English Canaan , in which he referred to Myles Standish as " Captain Shrimp , " and wrote , " I have found the Massachusetts Indians more full of humanity than the Christians . " 
