To conclude, they are a very witty and ingenious people, apt both to understand and speak our language, so that I hope in God as he hath miraculously preserved us hither from all dangers both of sea and land & their fury so he will make us authors of his holy will in converting them to our true Christian faith by his own inspiring grace and knowledge of his deity. According to the excerpt, this settler hopes the American Indians will O convert to Christianity. O give up their settlement. teach him their language. trade with the Europeans.​