horse; his conscience was so tender and scrupulous (though as
large as hell, for the destruction of poor Christians). Then he
said, he read that Scripture to him, "There was a famine in
Samaria, and behold they besieged it, until an ass's head was
sold for four-score pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a
cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver" (2 Kings 6.25).
He expounded this place to his brother, and showed him that it
was lawful to eat that in a famine which is not at another time.
And now, says he, he will eat horse with any Indian of them all.
There was another Praying Indian, who when he had done all the
mischief that he could, betrayed his own father into the English
hands, thereby to purchase his own life. Another Praying Indian
was at Sudbury fight, though, as he deserved, he was afterward
hanged for it. There was another Praying Indian, so wicked and
cruel, as to wear a string about his neck, strung with
Christians' fingers. Another Praying Indian, when they went to
Sudbury fight, went with them, and his squaw also with him, with
her papoose at her back. Before they went to that fight they
got a company together to pow-wow. The manner was as followeth:
there was one that kneeled upon a deerskin, with the company
round him in a ring who kneeled, and striking upon the ground
with their hands, and with sticks, and muttering or humming with
their mouths. Besides him who kneeled in the ring, there also
stood one with a gun in his hand. Then he on the deerskin made
a speech, and all manifested assent to it; and so they did many
times together. Then they bade him with the gun go out of the
ring, which he did. But when he was out, they called him in
again; but he seemed to make a stand; then they called the more
earnestly, till he returned again. Then they all sang. Then
they gave him two guns, in either hand one. And so he on the