much of their time to the same purpose, it will
probably be a work of time, requiring a long
exercise of patience and perseverance, before the
Indians can be brought into a state of complete
civilization. It has often appeared to me that
there is a natural wildness and quickness in them,
which all the pains or labour of the well-disposed
white inhabitants, will find it difficult to subdue.
However, there are different degrees of stability
and prudential care amongst these people, in their
natural state; many amongst them paying some
attention to agricultural pursuits, and, in summer,
providing for the wants of winter; whilst others
disclaim all thought or care for the future; and
hold in contempt all their neighbours, who depend
on any other means for support than hunting.
Although friends reside amongst them, they are
still, at certain times, in the practice of sacrificing
to idols of their own carving, some of which were
in the form of an Indian warrior of a gigantic
stature; to whom they sacrificed dogs, &c.
Notwithstanding this, they hold a tradition that
the universe was created, and is supported, by an
all-powerful being, whom they call the Great
Spirit; whose influence is felt in every human
breast, approving for good, and reproving for evil.

At three o'clock in the after-
noon of this may we met again, when the minutes
of the meeting for sufferings were read, the consi-