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becaiife ( they fay ) he will do them no 
harm. But Ahbjmocho or ' Cheepie many 
times fmites them with incurable Difeafes, 
fcares them with his Apparitions and pin- 
nick Terrours, by reafon whereof they live 
in a wretched confternation worfhipping 
the Devil for fear. One black Robin 
Indian fitting down in the Corn field be- 
longing to the houfe where I rciided , ran 
out of his Wign>am frighted with the appa- 
rition of two infernal fpirits in the rfiape 
of Mohawk^es* Another time two Indi^ 
am and an Indefs^ came running into our 
houfe crying out they (hould all dye, Cheepie 
was gone over the field gliding in the Air 
with a long rope hanging from one of his 
legs : we askt them what he was like, they 
faid all wone Englijhman^ clothed with hat 
and coat, fhooes and ttockings, &c. They 
have a remaikable obfcrvation of a flasne 
(hat appears before the death of an Indian 
or Englifh upon their Wigwams in the dead 
of the night: The firft time that I did fee 
it, I was calPd out by fome of them about 
twelve of the clock, it being a very dark 
night, I perceived it plainly mounting into 
the Air over our Church, which was built 
upon a plain little more than half a quarter 
of a mile from our dwelling houfe, on the 
Northfide of the Church: look on 
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