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June 18. — Ma'ndu is good. I do not have much only I say 

 "Thank you for that, Ma'ndu." Ma'ndu hears it then sliall I have 

 my dinner. I do not know what of all [things] I should do, [if] 

 Ma'ndu never helped me. 



June 19. — I can say Ma'ndu is good. Ma'ndu knows [that] 

 never anyone helps me. I have not anyone. Every person helps 

 himself, is not going to help anyone [else]. I am dreadfully sorry 

 for those people and youths and little ones there [on the] steamboat. 

 All fire. Poor [creatures] all! No one could help them. They 

 ought [to have] turned back then gotten off from the boat." 



June 20. — In heaven there [does] not come anything not good 

 because Ma'ndu can not accept it, that is why [there] ca.nie Ma'ndu's 

 son here on earth ... so that you can stay in heaven. You must 

 be sorry for all things you do, being evil ^^ and [so] must one never 

 love it.^' Ma'ndu does not wish [that] people shall call for di'bi. 

 Ma'ndu wishes [that] all people shall come to him staying in heaven. 

 di''bi' is running about so that he can catch people, dv'hv thinks this 

 earth is his own, people, too. It is gone, .yes! Only for [that] Jesus 

 Christ came, he can not do anything. Jesus Christ will put di''bi' 

 from heaven because he falsified and wants Jesus Christ's place. 

 Here can not dv'hv enter into heaven. Jesus Christ will put dv'hv 

 in the fire, as dv'hv knows too. Jesus Christ, he died, gave himself 

 so that all people can come to heaven, wishing to. 



April 21. — Windy, it goes by whistling. 



April 22. — Cold to-day. The sun is good. I am sleepy, I go to 

 sleep. 



April 23. — The sun is good, rising clear. I can not find anything. 

 Already noon, I must eat my dinner. I must say "Thank you" [for] 

 my food because Ma'ndu gives me all things [I] have here on earth. 

 I must be strong. I went to meeting to-day at Mohegan.^'* 



^ She refers to the catastrophe of the excui'sion steamer General Slocum in which a host of women and 

 children passengers were burned to death in the East River, N. Y. The diarist hixs an entry "New York" 

 on the margin which fixes this reference. 



3" Literally "not being good." 



31 Insert "evil." 



^ .K Congregational Church was built in 1831 on the crown of Mohegan Ilill, in the heart of the old Indian 

 community. It still stands in a most impressive spot overlooking the country in all directions, command 

 ing a view of Long Island Sound, the eminence known as Lantern Ilill in the old Pequot territory due 

 east, and northwest to the Taconnic Hills; all familiar landm.arks in Mohegan history. The "meeting" 

 is still the social bond that keeps the Mohegan remnant united. 



