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ance of Provijions and other neccffaries, & that the Sick or 

 Wounded be accommodated in the befi mariner your circum- 

 Jlances will admit. And that good order and command be 

 kept up & maintained in the feveral companies, and all dif- 

 orders, drunkennef, prophane etirfing, fwearing, difobedience 

 to Officers, mutinies, omiffions or neglecl of duty, be duly 

 pnnifJicd according to the Laius Martial. And you are to 

 require the Captain or chief Officer of each company with 

 the Clerk of the fame, to keep an exacl Journal of all their 

 proceedings from time to time. 



In cafe any of the Eidian Enemy and Rebels offer to fiib- 

 mit themfelves, you are to receive them only at difcretion. 

 But if y oti think fit to improve any of them or any others 

 which y oil may happen to take Prif oners, you may encourage 

 them to be faithful by the promife of their lives, which fiiall 

 be granted 7pon approbation of their fidelity. [88] 



You are carefully to look after the Indians which yoti 

 have out of the Prifon^ fo that they may not have oppor- 

 tunity to efcape, but otherwife improve them to what advan- 

 tage you can, and return them back again to this place. 



You are to advife as you can have occafion with Capt. 

 John Gorham 193 who accompanies you in this Expedition, 

 and is to take your command in cafe of your Death. A 



192 In purfuance of the policy by fimilar relburce. [Drake's Hift. Bojl. i : 



which, in the time of Philip's war, Cor- 402; Part I. note 56.] 



nelius the Dutch pirate, and others, had 19:) John Gorham (Gorum, Goram, 



been taken out of Bofton jail, and Gorrum, Goarani) was fon of Capt. 



"allowed"to march againfl: the Indi- John, of Barnftable ; was born at Marfh- 



ans, the Province feems now to have field, 20 Feb., 1654 ; was a tanner, like 



fwelled the ranks of its volunteers by a his father; was with his father in 

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