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so-called from the Sault Ste. Marie, one of the 

 great stations of this extensively-ramified tribe; 

 but by their own Indian name, Ogibways, till 

 lately called and written, corruptly, Chippawas 

 by the English, who have give the permanent 

 name of Chippawa to a village near the Falls 

 of Niagara. 



&quot;Nothing can be more pitiable, in my estim- Heathen Con- 

 tion, than the condition of these poor heathens: dlt 

 nothing more calculated to excite an interest in 

 favour of all rightly-conducted efforts for their 

 conversion. They are sometimes regarded with 

 a sort of admiration, as the unsophisticated child 

 ren of nature; and, still more, as exhibiting the 

 very impersonation of a high-toned independence, 

 and an unshackled manliness of spirit. Children 

 of nature they are ; and what kind of moral nurse 

 is mother nature, a Christian has no need to ask. 

 They are physically a fine race of men, and they 

 are perfectly susceptible of moral and intellectual, 

 and spiritual culture; but their actual condition 

 presents a most degrading picture of humanity. 

 Some of them came up to us in dirty blankets, or 

 dirtier dresses of worn and tattered hare-skins: 

 others were totally naked, except the waist- 

 cloth, their heads, with scarcely an exception, pro 

 tected only by an enormous mass of long black 

 hair. Others, in the encampments, who appear 

 ed to be persons of some distinction, and whose 

 attire was in better order, were tricked out more 

 like Bedlamites than rational beings; a silly and 

 undiscriminating passion for ornament prompt- 



