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ies; and having eaten sufficient, being satisfied therewith, we again returned thanks to the same our God, for that our refreshing, etc. This all of them concluded to be very well; and said, they believed almost all the same things, and that the same power that we called God, they called Kiehtan. Much profitable conference was occasioned hereby, which would be too tedious to relate, yet was no less delightful to them, than comfortable to us. Here we remained only that night, but never had better entertainment amongst any of them.

The day following, in our journey, Hobamak told me of the private conference he had with Massasoit, and how he charged him perfectly to acquaint me therewith, as I showed before; which having done, he used many arguments himself to move us thereunto. That night we lodged at Namasket; and the day following, about the midway between it and home, we met two Indians, who told us, that Captain Standish was that day gone to the Massachusetts. But contrary winds again drove him back; so that we found him at home; where the Indian of Paomet still was, being very importunate that the Captain should take the first opportunity of a fair wind to go with him. But their secret and villanous purposes being, through God's mercy, now made known, the Governor caused Captain Standish to send him away, without any distaste or manifestation of anger, that we might the better effect and bring to pass that which should be thought most necessary.

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THE LABORS OF THE PILGRIMS AND EARLY SETTLERS OF THE PLYMOUTH COLONY FOR THE INSTRUCTION AND CONVERSION OF THE INDIANS.

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THERE is no account of any special effort to christianize the Indians until after the banishment of Roger Williams (1636), when the government of Plymouth Colony enacted laws, "providing for the preaching of the gospel among them, and with the concurrence of the chiefs, for constituting courts to punish misdemeanors." Similar laws were afterwards passed in Massachusetts. Mr. Williams was, that year, "fourteen weeks among them in their smoky holes," learning their language, and endeavoring to enlighten them in the things of the kingdom. Mr. Mayhew began his labors on the Vineyard in 1643, but it was several years before he entered with systematic earnestness in the great work which he ultimately accomplished. Mr. Eliot preached his first sermon to them in 1646, but gathered no church until 16G0. Mr. Bourne began his labors as early as 1641, but it was several years before it was generally known that he and Mr. Tupper were "doing a great work" in Sandwich, and on the Cape. Mr. Cotton began his labors on the Vineyard in 1663, and having learned their language, often preached and taught there, and also to their assemblies after his settlement in Plymouth in 1667. Mr. Pierson, Mr. James, and Mr. Fitch, labored on Long Island and

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