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he asked me several questions concerning the 

 book and picture, which I resolved him and invi- 

 ted him to become a Christian. He made me a 

 very sharp reply, Assuring me that he loved the 

 English extraordinary well, and did believe their 

 ways to be very good for those that had already 

 practiced them, and had been brought up therein; 

 but as for himself, he was too much in years to 

 think of a change, esteeming it not proper for old 

 people to admit of such an alteration. However, 

 he told me, if I would take his son, Jack, who was 

 then about fourteen years of age, and teach him 

 to talk in that book, and make paper speak, which 

 they call our way of writing, he would wholly re- 

 sign him to my tuition ; telling me he was of opin- 

 ion I was very well affected to the Indians. 



The next morning we set out early, and I per- 

 ceived that these Indians were in some fear of en- 

 emies ; for they had an old man with them who 

 was very cunning and circumspect, wheresoever 

 he saw any marks of footing, or of any fire that 

 had been made ; going out of his way very often 

 to look for these marks. "We went, this day, 

 above thirty miles, over a very level country, and 

 most pine land, yet intermixed with some quanti- 

 ties of marble ; a good range for cattle, though 

 very indifferent for swine. "We had now lost our 

 rapid streams, and were come to slow, dead wa- 

 ters, of a brown color, proceeding from the swamps, 

 much like the sluices in Holland, where the Track- 

 Scoots go along. In the afternoon, we met two 



