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ganized Christian authority to protect, under all 

 conditions, the ignorant and innocent from the 

 devices and contamination of the depraved and 

 devilish.&quot; I imagine, in the second place, that 

 I hear you take refuge in the complaint: &quot;why 

 did you lead us all the way from the coast of 

 Virginia to the Height of Land, only to poison 

 the breath of our nostrils by a recital of all the 

 infamy suffered by the aborigines at the hands 

 of the white intruders?&quot; The reply is, &quot;I have 

 led you here to the pure air of the heart of the 

 Indian s cquntry in order that, breathing deeply 

 of its vigour you might be strengthened to hear 

 and bear the whole story of evil; be inspired to 

 dare and to do all that in you lies for the repara 

 tion of boundless wrong; and be filled with the 

 determination to labour for the redemption of the 

 descendants of a great race possessing many 

 free and valuable qualities.&quot; 



But we came, after all, to the height of land to 

 look not in one direction only, or to listen to but 

 one side of a story. Our outlook is both East 

 and West, and our desire is to know the good 

 as well as the bad record of our race. Let us, 

 therefore, &quot;hear the other side.&quot; 



Even the question of trade, apart from the 

 traffic in fire-water for which not one good word 

 can be said, is not a record of unmitigated evil. 

 The Charters of the first plantations contained, 

 as we have seen, pious and righteous expressions 

 of desire for the good of the native peoples. The 

 Hudson s Bay Company brought the first mission- 



