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while he stamped earnestly with his feet at the whitepreachers, whom he said, are Friendly to us, till they getour trees, and lands, and then they are no more our friends;but the Quakers are good people, and do not serve us so;I love the Quakers, nipping my hands almost together,until I was actually afraid of him, his visage was so hor-rible, while he stamped on the ground at the white preach-ers, whom he would not let come near him. I kneeleddown in the midst of them in fervent supplication, whilethey sat on seats all round in the place where they offertheir yearly sacrifice. A large pole was standing up,on which they fix a white dog, night the top, and thendance round it, imploring the Good Spirit to give them aplentiful crop of corn, from that which is just before putinto the ground; rendering Him their thanks for His bless-ing upon the past crop the preceding summer. They haveanother white dog which they roast, and eat at the sametime, of their sacrifice, that are instead of lambs. Theardour of my soul was great for them, that they mightworship the Eternal Spirit, through the medium of HisOnly Begotten Son. The text I spoke from was, Alas,my brother! which was opened to me, by the RevealingLight, so far, as to enable me to testify to them, that I be-lieved they were of Jeroboam’s house, who were Israel’sseed, that were carried away captives by Shalmaneser,king of Assyria, and so were come thither to keep theirsacrifices, which were to typify Jesus the Son of God, whowas offered up for them, and would call them back againinto their own land, that should flow with milk and honey,and they should all be taught of God, who would be aRighteous King unto them, and join them to Judah, fromwhom they were separated for rebellion. I also signified,that their forefathers were carried away by Shalmanesercaptives, because they worshipped two Golden calves,which my Interpreter said was made of “Yellow money,”that they might understand the better: for he was a goodIndian, who was a religious man, and of the Tuskerownation, and spoke English well, as also Indian: but there