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remit to us) what we owe thee in the same manner

teskitugungi

And do not a place of straying 7. Ale tlesti utalenastiyi

the other hand kini

evil

uyawtlu

our

5. Tawkatawlaquisung awgalis

Remit to us

6. Tigeskiungsi (quo)

and (and

naw

as we forgive those who owe us.

naskiya (quo) tsiligayawtsinehaw tsawtsitugi.

lead us into.

Prevent us

on

witiskiyatinungstanunggi. 8. Shialugiskesti quos

towards when we are going.
itillu wawtsigatungi.

Thine (is) for (for thine is) 9. Tsatselika yenaw

thou glorious the being

thou king the being, and thou powerful the being, and tsakungwiyuhi gesungi, ale tsalinigitiyu gesungi, ale etsalungquotiyu gesungi

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moja-nitta. 6. Ipohoihli-pom-wy gus-pome-ahooi hlaje ulgi-in (Into) things tempting us lead lead

like as).

us

not.

omen. 7. Naugi sa opunga po-halhladi-se po a yhitch kus cha

evil

keep

us.

For thine is the authority,

But from

8. mo mais-na

and the strength

hoolkidon-pung kop pi yi ja jus cha- 9. mut-chim a a gadist, momen-yhik chi and the great name always without end.

Let it be.

tut-addum-chi ojif ka hlok ki- is stung ves. 10. Mome bikkus cha.

THE LORD'S PRAYER, IN CHOCTA.

Our Father sitting above. 1. Piki vba binili ma.

2.

dominion (where thou reignest) come.

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What thou willest- this earth heaven itself-let it

pehlichi kvt vlashke. 4. Nana ish aianukfilli hokvt yokni ilvppa

be the same.

Our food for

vba shutik ok inli chiyumashke. 5. Nitok moma pini ilhpok a himok nitok

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every day this day

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aheka yoka il i kashohofikma, nana

And leading us, bring us not 7. Yvmohmi kvt ai anukpvlli imma

And leading, take us out from the 8. Yvmohmikmvt ai okpuloka yoka pi All these, where thou reignest, wholly, in truth, Ilvppa moma ish a pehlie chi a fullota aiahli

Father

our

THE LORD'S PRAYER, IN DAHCOTA.

above

he is.

We wish may be rever1. Atey oaneeahpee wongkahntoo eeahngkey. 2. To keen wahkongwon

enced

thy name.

We wish things all thy power

even

may

dahkahpee neets hejikee. 3. To keen tahkoo-owos wyahkeehee ehahn ongWhat thou desirest all may it be accomplished as

come to us.

above

kaheepee. 4. Takoo neetsheeng owos oneetsheetshaytoo ee eytshin wong

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day kahntoo eeytschin mahkah ahkan. 5. Oangkoomeeey tahkoo uetahpee ahmpey

every.

Us give

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ey tooheyah. 6. Kah oangkeeueskkah tahkoo sheetshah eytshoongkhoopee ee

as

And us untie

who

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them untie shall we eytshen weetskoangkueshkahpee tuey tahkoo-sheetshah-eytshahoang keets evil to think of doing take caro us to prevent. hoompe. 7. Tahkoo sheetshah ahwahtscheenpee eekee noha ee oeeahkeepee.

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II.

AN

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE

DOINGS AND SUFFERINGS

OF

THE CHRISTIAN INDIANS

IN NEW ENGLAND,

IN THE YEARS 1675, 1676, 1677.

IMPARTIALLY DRAWN BY ONE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THAT AFFAIR,

AND

PRESENTED UNTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE CORPORATION RESIDING IN LONDON, APPOINTED BY THE KING'S

MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY FOR PROMOTING THE GOSPEL

AMONG THE INDIANS IN AMERICA.

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.

In preparing the following brief sketch of the principal incidents in the life of the author of "The History of the Christian Indians," the Publishing Committee have consulted the original authorities cited by the American biographical writers, and such other sources of informa tion as were known to them, for the purpose of insuring greater accuracy; but the account is almost wholly confined to the period of his residence in New England, and is necessarily given in the most concise manner. They trust, that more ample justice will yet be done to his memory by the biographer and the historian.

DANIEL GOOKIN was born in England, about A. D. 1612. As he is termed "a Kentish soldier" by one of his contemporaries, who was himself from the County of Kent,* it has been inferred, with good reason, that Gookin was a native of that county. In what year he emigrated to America, does not clearly appear; but he is supposed to have first settled in the southern colony of Virginia, from whence he removed to New England. Cotton Mather, in his memoir of Thompson, a nonconformist divine of Virginia, has the following quaint allusion to our author:

"A constellation of great converts there

Shone round him, and his heavenly glory were.
GOOKINS was one of these. By Thompson's pains,
Christ and New England a dear Gookins gains."

A gentleman of the same name, "Master Daniel Gookin," (as he is styled,) accompanied by "fifty men of his own, and thirty passengers, well provided, arrived out of Ireland," in Virginia, Nov. 22d, 1621. He was one of twenty-six persons, to whom patents of lands were granted in that year, and who are said to "have undertaken to transport great multitudes of people and cattle to Virginia." Having fulfilled his contract with the Virginia Company, by bringing them cattle and other supplies from Ireland, he settled in the colony at a place called Newport's News. This gentleman is stated by several writers to have been the father of General Gookin; but the only circumstances authorizing even a conjecture to that effect, are the identity of name, and the fact that both lived in Virginia. A circumstance of an opposite character has been already alluded to, which seems to imply that Gookin had acquired his knowledge of arms in Kent; but, had he gone to Virginia with his father in 1621, when only about nine years of age, and re

*Johnson's " Wonderworking Providence," Chap. 26.

+ Purchas's Pilgrims, Vol. IV.

p. 1785.

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