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their fouls, by tie preaching of tt:e gofpel $ 

 and that to this purpofe fome minifters Jhould 

 be fent to tbefn, to injiruft them. The go- 

 vernor had fcarce ended, when one of the 

 old eft Sachems got up, and anfwered, that 

 in the name of all the Indians, he thanked 

 their gracions good queen and mother for the 

 Jine clothes fhe had fent them j but that in re- 

 gard to the mimjlers, they had already bad 

 feme among them, (whom helikewife named) 

 who injlead of preaching the holy gofpel to 

 them, had taught them to drink to excefs, to 

 cheat, and to quarrel among themfches. He 

 then entreated the governor to take from 

 them thefe preachers, and a number of 

 Europeans who refided amongft them -, for 

 before they were come among, them, the 

 Indians had been an honeft, lober, and in- 

 nocent people, but moft of them became 

 rogues now. That they had formerly hsd 

 the fear of God, but that they hardly be- 

 lieved his exiftence at prefent, That if he 

 (the governor) would do them any favour, 

 he fhould fend two or three blackfmlths 

 amongft them, to teach them to forge iron, 

 in which they were unexperienced. The 

 governor could not forbear laughing at this 

 extraordinary fpeech. I think the words 

 of St. Paul not wholly unapplicable on 



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