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74 god bro't forth this good by it, first their preservation from the fury of the people, 2dy the humbling & bettering the Inds. by this sore affliction. I crossed out observed in all my visits to them, that they carrd. theselves patiently, humbly & piously without murmuring or complaining against the Eng. for their sufferings ( which were not few) for they lived chiefly upon clams & shell fish that they digged out of the sand at low water; the Isd. was bleak & cold, their wigwams poor & mean, their clothes few & thin, some little corn they had of their own, which the council orderd. tobe fetched from their plantations, & conveyed to them by little, also a boat & men was appointed to look after the; I many say in in the words of thruth (according to my apprhension) thre appeard. among the much practical christy. in ys time of their trials. After the fight which was between the Eng. & Inds. (1) at Narragt., the XI (1) [19 Dec.?] day of Decr. 1675, the council of as. were very desiruous to use means to give intelligence of the