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to observe my masters instructions, that he given me the day before, and warned the rest to do likwise, our Indians seemed verey indifferent in landing and passed some small distance above the landing place, the first connew that landed, was the Capt of the herons he had but one prisoner in his connew, who was an Indian, that had formerly belonged to Capt John Gorhams Companey, as soon as he landed he was not carfull to keep by his master , and the squaws gather themselves reound him and caught him by the hair, as many as could hold of cut word and halled him down to the ground and pound his head against the ground the rest with their rods dancing round him, and wipted him over the head and legs, to such a degree that I thought they would have killed him in the spot, or halled him in the watter and drounded him, they was so eager to have a stroak at him each of them, that they halld him some one way and some