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that go forth to war, but as they could not agree on what termes we should be divided. they concluded it was most convenient to shoot us directly and end the dispute. For which reason they took their guns as cut word was informed by the French and Indians afterwards however by divine providence we was preserved and distributed amongst the Tribes of Indians I was led with a string to a comp..? of the herons? - probably Hurons, a Nation of Indians whose residence is about three leagues from Quebec. I seemed tollerably well satisfied with my lot. with the consideration that I should live verey near the french, and having been informed they was the most civelised Nation of Indians, when I came to their camp I found four prisoners, Viz one English man and three English Indians that belonged to Captain Ino. Gorhams? Company, and where taken sometime before on Goat island, that Englishman I had been acquainted with, and after I had asked him some particular questions weither any of ther Company was taken besid themselves &, he gave me an acount how long