SPECK) A MOHEGAN-PEQUOT DIARY Z4d 



May 28. — Ma'ndu is good, I slept last evening. I can get up. I 

 went [and] fed myself, milked the cow [and tended the] chickens. I 

 eat pudding and berries. That is so. 



May 29. — The sun rises clear. Already noon, I eat my dinner as 

 I am hungry. Wlioever is hungry does not feel very well, whoever 

 is not feeling well can not work, whoever can not be working, him 

 must everyone help so that he [may] have something to eat, because 

 maybe he will die of hunger since he can not go and get it. That 

 is so! Then Ma'ndu will see those people [and] help them, too. 

 That is so. 



May 30. — The sun rises, then it is cloudy. Ma'ndu is good, all 

 things are good. Only people [are] not all good. That is so! Per- 

 haps they do not want anything good from Ma'ndu, because they 

 can not make money. 



Junel. — J/a'n(7M is good. I can get up from my bed. Rain. Mr. 

 Speck came here to-day. Ma'ndu is good so much he helps me. 

 Rain, cold, it is so! 



June 2. — Ma'ndu is good because I can have my thought, that 

 is so! 



June 3. — Cloudy day. Ma'ndu is good because I can help myself. 

 Ma'ndu gives me my strength. I saw a snake near the river, he had 

 a fish in his mouth. I did not have a stick so that I could hit him. 

 I ought to hit him so that he would give up the fish. I would help. 

 I would like to hit him. He can not bite anyone because he has a 

 fish in his mouth. 



June 4- — Ma'ndu is good. Nothing I fear at night. I have 

 strength so that I get up, everything comes from Ma'ndu. 



June 5. — Ma'ndu is good. He does not let anything come here that 

 I fear. Already noon. Truly can I say Ma'ndu is good, he helps me 

 because I need him. 



June 6. — Ma'ndu is good. I slept, I got up, [and] ate milk. I 

 went to Landing. 



June 7. — Ma'ndu is very good, my help. I have everything from 

 Ma'ndu. That is so! Gone. 



June 8. — Ma'ndu is good because all things are so. Yesterday 

 cloudy. 3Ia'ndu is good. True it is! My heart says that. 



June 9. — Cloudy, it is good, almost night. Ma'ndu gives my 

 strength so I can sleep nights, because I know Ma'ndu dwells here. 

 Ma'ndu is strong and all-knowing. 



