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50 for that imploy : if they could bee procured viz Job Kattenanit & James Quannapohit (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 their love 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 l pounds a peece promised for their incourgement The Same day the major brought them up with him and conveyd them privatly in the night to his hous at Cambridge & therre kept them in secret untill all things were fitted for their jorney & instructions & orders given them And then upon the 30th of December before day, they were sent away beeing conducted by an English man unto the falls of charles river; and so they past on their jorny undiscovered. these two spyes aquitted themselves in this service prudently and faith[fully] ^brought that intelligence which 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 Rendevoozes among whome were most of ^ the praying Indians that were captivated from Hassannamesit as was formerly declared. These spyes were instructed to tel 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 their country 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 their frends at Dearre Iland & else where what course to steere, for the future and that one of them (viz Job) had all his children among them