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are said frequently to visit the establishment, and to trace 

 with deep feeling a spot which is endeared to them by " the 

 memory of past joys, pleasing and mournful to the soul." 



The Carey Mission-house has been very liberally sup- 

 ported by the charitable contributions raised throughout the 

 western states. The family have a flock of one hundred sheep, 

 collected in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio, and are daily 

 expecting two hundred head of cattle from the same states. 

 These contributions, together with the produce of their 

 farm, will, it is thought, prevent them from being exposed 

 to suffer as much from scarcity of provisions as they have 

 already done. When we visited them, they were on short 

 allowance, owing to the loss of a load of wheat which had 

 been sent from Fort Wayne in a wagon a short time before 

 we left that place, and which had been embarked in pi- 

 rogues at the upper crossing of the Elkheart ; by the acci- 

 dental upsetting of the pirogues the whole of the cargo 

 was lost. 



We were told that the family had been deprived of 

 the use of milk, during the whole winter, from the 

 circumstance of their cows feeding upon a kind of wild 

 onion which grows in the prairies. It may be well to state 

 that, notwithstanding the great objection which the Indians 

 generally have to the use of milk, the children in the 

 school have become quite fond of it. In order to give a 

 greater extension to their establishment, they contemplate 

 engaging Shane as an interpreter and assistant ; from what 

 we saw of this man while at Fort Wayne, we were not led 

 to form so high an opinion of him as we had entertained 

 from reports received on St. Mary's river. 



No rock appears in place near the establishment; and we 

 met with none on our way from Devil's river, except in 

 one place where we observed, in a ravine, a calcareous for- 



