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 to his eldest son after his decease; made him king and governor of the rest; and delivered him the history of these transactions writen with his own hand, commanding him to keep it; and if any strangers should come hither by any accident, to let them see it, and take a copy of it also if they pleased, that the name of his people might not be lost from off the earth.

It happened in the year 1667, Corneilus Van Sloetten, captain of a Dutch ship, called the Amsterdam, was driven by foul weather to this island, where he found the prosterity of Mr. Pine, speaking good English, and amounting, as it was supposed, to ten or twelve thousand persons.

The narrative, from which this account is taken was given by Mr. Pine’s grandson to the Dutch captain. Printed in London, being licensed

June, 27th 1668.