 They were sent to gather information about other groups of Native Americans' loyalties and plans of attack against the English settlements.Travelling with the Nipmucs, the spies discovered that both the Narragansetts and Nipmucs were planning to join Metacom's Wampanoag warriors to "burn and destroy the other frontier towns".The spies, Quannapohit and Kattenanit, were eventually found out and threatened by Metacom, so they chose to flee.