[page folded] of most of the inhabitants of the Islands
while standing upon Mr Carvers farm on the East
end of the north Island we counted 55 Islands some
were inhabited but the majority of them were not, we also
saw twenty ships under sail at the same time
we had no lack for food while upon these Islands
for if we did not wish to trouble any of our friends
for a dinner we would borrow a spead or hoe & bucket
& go onto the beach & dig a peck of clams & boil
them and they would make us a delicious meal
which we often practiced, On the 5 Sept, Elder
Hale & myself went onto the top of a high granite
rock upon the South Island, for prayer and supplication
we sat down upon under a pine growing out of
a fissure of the rock and Brother Hale read the
XVI Chapter of Jeremiah speaking of the hunters and
fishers that God would chuse up in the last days to
gather Israel and of a truth here we were on
an Island of the sea standing upon a rock where
we could sirvey the gallant ships and also the
Islands which were as full of rock holes & coves as any
part of the Earth. But what had brought us here
to search out the blood of Ephraim the honest and
meek of the Earth, and gather them from there

page folded of most of the inhabitants of the Islands while standing upon Mr Carvers farm on the East end of the north Island we counted 55 Islands some were inhabited but the majority of them were not, we also saw twenty ships under sail at the same time we had no lack for food while upon these Islands for if we did not wish to trouble any of our friends for a dinner we would borrow a spead or hoe & bucket & go onto the beach & dig a peck of clams & boil them and they would make us a delicious meal which we often practiced On the 5 Sept, Elder Hale & myself went onto the top of a high granite rock upon the South Island, for prayer and supplication we sat down under a pine growing out of a fissure of the rock and Brother Hale read the XVI Chapter of Jeremiah speaking of the hunters and fishers that God would chuse up in the last days to gather Israel and of a truth here we were on an Island of the sea standing upon a rock where we could sirvey the gallant ships and also the Islands which were as full of rock holes & coves as any part of the Earth. But what had brought us here to search out the blood of Ephraim the honest and meek of the Earth, and gather them from there