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8 and also to be as scouts & fortress to the English, for the Indians Generally excel in a quicke & strong fight for the discovery of any thing & then they have a very accurate sagacity in discerning the tracke of man or beast. And also they are subtile and witty to accomplish their enterprise; especily they keepe a deepe silence in their marches & motions, wheras the English are more prone to talke to on another & make a noise wherby the ^enimy is to warning? them before they com neare, either prepare for them or take their flight as is most for their advantage, And here I shal take liberty as a parenthesis to insert a short & true story of an Indian cheefe captaine under bnkas? who marching in the warre as scouts with some English souldiers of coneticut one of the English souldiers had on a new pair of shoes that made a creaking noise as they traviled. The Indian captaine was not quiet until hee had persuaded the felow with the creaking shoes to, take his mocassins & weare them & the strike-through Indian caried the English mans shoes at his back & went himselfe barefoot, Another English souldier had on a parre of leather britches which beeing dry, made a Rustling noise. The Indian capt, was not satisfied untill hee had persuaded the man to take of his breeches or else to wet them in the water to prevent their Russling, by this relation with a tribe wee may observe how how circumspect and carefull they are in order to assume advantages of their enimies.

Margins 1675 July 2 But to proceed to our purpose the Governor & council gave forth their orders to Major Daniel Cooke [unto whome a peculiar ins`pection & Government of the praying Indians was comitted by Authority of the General court], to raise a company of the praying indians forth with to bee armed & furnished and sent to the Army at mount hope. In pursuant wherof the Major forthwith sent to all the praying indians for one third part of their ^able men who all readily & cheerfully appered; & beeing listed were about fifty & two: these beeing armed and furnished were sent to the Army under Conduct of Capt Isack Johnson the 6th of July 1675: who returned backe after hee, had deliverd them to major Savage comander in cheefe of the army at Mounte Hope. strikethrough how those indians, behaved themselves I shall say little beeing not an eyewitness therof but Both major Savage, Capt Prentise, & Capt Henchman ^that officers in our army give testimony under their that the most of them aquited themselves -- -- courageously & faithfully as may appeare by a certificate (in the close of this treatise) under their hands.