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fo much attention to a work of fo much 

 confequence, as the French do, and that 

 they do not fend fuch able men to inftruct 

 the Indians, as they ought to do *. For 

 after governor Hunter had prefented thefe 

 Indians, by order of Queen Anne, with 

 many clothes, and other prefents, of which 

 they were fond, he intended to convince 

 thetn ftill more of her Majefty's good-will, 

 and care for them, by adding, that their 

 good mother, the Queen, had not only gene- 

 roujly provided them with fine clothes for 

 their bodies, but like-wife intended to adorn 



their 



* Mr. Kahn is, I believe, not right informed. The 

 French ecclefiaftics have allured fome few wretched Indian: 

 to their religion and intereft, and fettled them in fmall vil- 

 lages ; but by the accounts of their behaviour, in the fevc- 

 ral wars of the French and Englijh, they were always guilty 

 of the greateft cruelties and brutalities ; and more fo than 

 their heathen countrymen ; and therefore it feems that they 

 have been rather perverted than converted. On the other 

 hand, the Englijh have tranflated the bible into the lan- 

 guage of the Firginian Indians, and converted many of 

 them to the true knowledge of God ; and at this prefenr. 

 time, the Indian charity fchools, and miflions, conducted 

 by the Rev. Mr. Eieazar Wbeelock, have brought numbers 

 of the Indians to the knowledge of the true God. The Co- 

 ciety for propagating the gofpel in foreign parts, fends 

 every year many miffionaries, at their own expence, among 

 the Indians. And the Moravian Brethren are alfo very 

 aftive in the converfion of Gentiles ; fo that if Mr. Kalm 

 had confidered all thefe circumllances, he would have 

 judged otherwife of the zeal of the Britijb natioc, in pro- 

 pagating the gofpel among the Indians. F. 



