forementioned Indians, Tom and Peter, with their third letter
from the council. When they came near, I was abroad. Though I
saw them not, they presently called me in, and bade me sit down
and not stir. Then they catched up their guns, and away they
ran, as if an enemy had been at hand, and the guns went off
apace. I manifested some great trouble, and they asked me what
was the matter? I told them I thought they had killed the
Englishman (for they had in the meantime informed me that an
Englishman was come). They said, no. They shot over his horse
and under and before his horse, and they pushed him this way and
that way, at their pleasure, showing what they could do. Then
they let them come to their wigwams. I begged of them to let me
see the Englishman, but they would not. But there was I fain to
sit their pleasure. When they had talked their fill with him,
they suffered me to go to him. We asked each other of our
welfare, and how my husband did, and all my friends? He told me
they were all well, and would be glad to see me. Amongst other
things which my husband sent me, there came a pound of tobacco,
which I sold for nine shillings in money; for many of the
Indians for want of tobacco, smoked hemlock, and ground ivy. It
was a great mistake in any, who thought I sent for tobacco; for
through the favor of God, that desire was overcome. I now asked
them whether I should go home with Mr. Hoar? They answered no,
one and another of them, and it being night, we lay down with
that answer. In the morning Mr. Hoar invited the Sagamores to
dinner; but when we went to get it ready we found that they had
stolen the greatest part of the provision Mr. Hoar had brought,
out of his bags, in the night. And we may see the wonderful
power of God, in that one passage, in that when there was such
a great number of the Indians together, and so greedy of a