XVill INTRODUCTION. “ 
the Church Missionary Society, which has 
already allotted a considerable sum for 
these purposes, and it has also sent out 
teachers who are to act under the super- 
intendence of the Rev. Mr. West, the prin- 
cipal chaplain of the Company. 
We had the pleasure of meeting this 
gentleman at York Factory, and witnessed 
with peculiar delight the great benefit 
which had already marked his zealous and 
judicious conduct. Many of the traders, 
and of the servants of the Company, have 
been induced to marry the women with 
whom they had cohabited; a material step 
towards the improvement of the females 
in that country. 
Mr. West, under the sanction of the 
Directors, has also promoted a subscription 
for the distribution of the Bible in every 
part of the country where the Company’s 
Fur Trade has extended, and which has 
-met with very general support from the 
resident chief factors, traders, and clerks. | 
The Directors of the Company are con- 
tinuing to reduce the distribution of spirits 
