Original Account of Pernambuco. 
longer "be*perinitted* to pursue the deer in’ 
those’ forests’ which were so Jatelyour) 
own. 'Dhelfish whichjoin tie Buffalo and 
‘Ponnewanto Créeks, used to supply -us® 
withfood; arenow, by thedams and other’ 
Obsteudtions of the-white people, prevented 
from Tiultiplying; and we are’ almost °en=: 
Geapaispeved sal at accustomed subte- 
nianeée. © 
msy Our! great’ father’ the president, an 
réeommended "to our*young men to be in- 
dustriotis} “to plough,and' to sow. ‘This 
we have done; and we are thankful for the 
advice} and forthe means he has afforded 
us of °carrying it intoeffect: we are hap- 
pier ‘in consequence of it. 
““But another thing recommended to us 
lias created great confusion amongst us, 
and is making»us a.guarrelsome and divided 
people 5,and. that, is. the introduction of 
a eaclisn, into,eur nation. . These Black- 
robes* contrive. to. get consent of some of 
the Indians. to, preach among us ; and 
enever this is the case, confusion and 
disorder are sure to follow, and the en- 
croachment of the whites upon our land is 
the invariable consequence. 
must not think Nard of me for speaking 
thus’ of the preachers. I have~ observed 
their progress, and when I look back to 
see what has taken place of old, I perceive 
that. whenever they came among the In- 
dians, they were. forerunners of “their dis- 
persion; that they introduced the white 
people on their lands, by whom they were 
robbed and plundered of their property ; 
andthat the Indians were sure to dwindle 
and decrease; and be driven back, in pro- 
portion to the number of preachers that 
came among them.” 
When Mr. Mahew, about the middle 
of the seventeenth century, requested per- 
mission of a Narraganset sachem to preach 
to his Indians, the chief replied, —‘ Go and 
teach the English to be good first.’ ~ And 
when Dr. Boudinot, a corresponding mem- 
ber of the Scottish Society for the Propa- 
gation of Christianity, made a similar at- 
tempt in the Delaware nation, the chiefs 
that ‘when the whites had re- 
stored their black people to freedom and 
happiness, the red men would Jisten to 
their missionaries.’ ’” 
~~ Mr. Halkett next alludes to the mis- 
taken efforts of our missionaries to 
Convert the Indians; and clearly shews 
oi if they really ‘wish to lead these 
bon peome to a knowledge of Jesus 
Christ, sects must co-operate; the 
atholic must. not anathematize. the 
stants, and the Protestant must 
not traduce and ridicule the Catholics, 
and then the poor savage will not reply 
to the instructions of the missionary, 
“+ The ye Indian appellation for the 
les. 
a _, Mostuty Mac. No. 405. 
The governor 
625. 
‘How! can agree withoyou'when you 
do riot agree ainong yourselves * pe Bat: 
if if is “Only devout’ submission to "the 
will of God ‘they wish to’ ‘teach’ thet, 
the following prayer of a miserable In- 
dian, after the loss’ of his wife, and. 
child, might shew, that they. are not,, of 
themselves; of, necessity, yary maneh out 
of the way of truths: / : Oya 
“ O Great Spirit, who governest the! Sun 
and the Moon, who created ‘the elk) the” 
otter, and the beaver, be appeased, and do 
not any -longer continue enraged ‘against’ 
me. Be content with the ‘misfortunes I 
have suffered. I had a wife—thou hast 
taken her from me. I had a child, whom 
I loved as myself —it is gone, for so’ was 
thy pleasure. Is that not enough?’ Be- 
stow on me henceforward as much good 
as I now experience evil; or, if thou art 
not satisfied with what I now suffer,’ make 
me die, for in this state Tecan live no longer.” 
But we will conclude (our gpate “not 
permitting further extracts), by recom- 
mending the book itself to the attention. 
of our readers, as replete with, interest, 
and fruitful.of instruction, with respect, 
to the very different system’ whichwmust; 
be pursued, if ever we hope effectually: 
to introduce either Christianity or eivi= 
_ lization’ among these’ almost exterini- 
nated natives of the woods and wilds of 
America. —— 
For the Monthly Magazine, ....... 
OnicinaL Account of PernaMBuco, i 
the Brazits; from a» Manuseript 
“—V oyage to the Brazils and Mediter= 
ranean,” performed in the year 1810. 
ee great jealousy which the Portu- 
guese have observed, from time 
immemorial, in. all. their. commercial 
dealings, has. ever induced them. to prow 
hibit foreigners visiting this coast; and, 
before the period when: the Prince Re. 
genie emigrated, with his court, to Rio 
aneiro, if any foreign ‘vessel was dis+ 
covered upon it, she was liable to con- 
fiscation, and her crew to imprisonment. 
But, since this has taken place, as man- 
kind in general go from one extreme to 
the other, we have had free access to all 
their ports; and, to say. the truth, we 
are now allowed, like the Jews in Tur- 
key, to monopolize nearly the whole of 
their trade, even the coasting part of it; 
Previous to this event, we were sa little 
acquainted with the Brazils, that, in 
most of our maps, this place is called 
“ Olinda, or Pernambuco,” though they 
are, in fact, two separate and distinct 
places,—the first a city, and the second 
a populous town, distant. from. each 
other at least three miles, , 
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