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sistance. The report of a gun fired about the same 

 time, enabled the stragglers to rejoin the canoe. 

 At Sault Ste. Marie, which I reached about the 

 end of July, I met with a most hospitable, and, 

 indeed, flattering reception. Major Codd, the 

 commandant of the American garrison, paid me 

 the extraordinary compliment of receiving me with 

 a salute of eleven guns. In the evening of the 

 same day, I had also the gratification of passing 

 a few hours at the mission-house of the Rev. W. 

 M c Murray, whose pious endeavours to reclaim 

 the poor Indians in that district are deserving 

 of the highest praise. In the short space of two 

 years, this exemplary man has received into his 

 fold no fewer than two hundred converts ; and has 

 established a school, attended, not unfrequently, 

 by fifty scholars. By the liberality of the go- 

 vernment, a school-house was then in the course 

 of erection for the use of the mission ; and the 

 appointment of a schoolmaster was in contem- 

 plation. Houses were also building for the ac- 

 commodation of at least twenty Indian families, 

 who were to be instructed in agriculture, for 

 which they were said to have manifested a 

 decided inclination. Nor has Mr. M c Murray 

 confined his exertions to his own immediate 

 neighbourhood, some of the more zealous 

 members of his congregation having been de- 

 spatched along the northern shores of Lake 



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