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49 (through grace) to apply such meet portions therof as are pertinent to their nessecities 1675 About the latter end of December I had (among others) some time an opertunity to accompany mr Eliot, to visit and comfort the poorst ch[ris]tian Indians, confyned to Deere lland. who were (a little before) increased to bee about five hundred soules, by Addition of the punkapog -indians , sent thither upon as li..? cause as the Naticks were. the enmity, jelousy, & clamors of some people against them, put the magistrary upon a a kind of nescesity, to send them all to the Iland; And although it was a great suffering to the indians to ...., yet God brought forte this good by it, firsy thow purseruation from the(?) fury of the people; the fumbling and battering... indians by this sore affirtion?. I observed in all my visits of them ...they carried themselves, patiently, humbly, and piously, without moaning or complaining,against the english, for their sufferings (which were not few) for they ... cheerfly upon... and sheepish if ... our of ... at ..., the Iland was bleak and cold, their wigwams pooree meane?, their clotes few and thinnd, some ...... they had of their owne ... council ordered to G... from plantations and convayd to ... by ...... also a boat and man was appointed to looks after ..., I may say (... words of... (according to my apphension?) there appeared among them much practical chrianity in this time of ...T..... After the fight which was beewne the english and indians of ...., the IXI day of December 1675. The council of massachusetts were very ... to use meanes to gainr inteligence of the state of the enimy. And in pursuaure ... past an order impourering .... to use his best endeuor to procure two ...... of the praying Indians, from Iland to undertake that soruire, and to promise them a reward for ... incouragemont, Accordingly upon the 28th of December hee went downe to ... Iland And advising ... two or three of the principal men, they ... the designe of the ... hee had ... upon.