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50 for that imploy : if they could bee [procured] [viz] Job Kattenanit & James Quannapoliet (of whome I have formerly spoken these beeing spoken to by the major about this matter Answered that they were very sensible of the great Hazard & danger [in this] undertaking. yet they [r] [...] to the English & that they might give more demonstrations of their fydelity they being also incouraged by their cheefe men. [they] said (by Gods assistance) they would willingly adventurre their lives, in this service. they had no more but 5 [...] a peece promised for their incourgement the Same day the major brought them up with him and [con...yd] them privatly in the night to his hous at Cambridge & therre kept them in secret untill all [th...] were fitted for their jorney & instructions & orders before day, they were sent away beeing conducted by an english man unto the fall of charles [...]. and so they past on their jorny undiscovered. these two spyes aquitted themselves in this service prudently and faith[fully] >brought that which >intelligence might have conduced much to the advantage of the english had their advise been wisely improved. They first fell among the enimies quarters about menumesse wher the Nipmuks Quabage &wesakam Indians kept their Rendev[ooies] among whome were most of <[their] praying Indians that were captivated from Hassannamesch as was formerly declared. These spyes were instructed to te a faire, yet true story to the enimy, that they were some of the poor naticke indians, confyned to deare Iland, where they had lived all this winter under great sufferings & now these beeing gotten of they were willing to come among theircountry men & find out their freinds that had >lived at Hassannamesit, And to understand the numbers strength unity, & estate of their contry men that were in Hostility with the english, that [so] they might bee the better able to advise theirfrends as Dearre Iland & elce where what course to [steere] for that [future] and that one of them [...] Jon had all his children among them