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occasions connected with the confirmations, as 

 well as at the public services on other days, by a 

 people brought under the yoke of the Gospel, 

 many of whom had been originally heathens, and 

 the great body of whom had Indian blood in their 

 veins, and the effect was indescribably heightened 

 by the deep attention with which they listened 

 and the devout reverence with which they knelt, 

 to receive the imposition of hands the com 

 fortable hope shedding its ray over the solemnity, 

 that they did in sincerity dedicate themselves to 

 Christ. 



The last act of devotion in which we united Adieu 

 with the Indians had been on the evening of the 

 day before, in the School-house, after the con 

 firmation held in the morning in the Church. 

 They attend Mr. Smithurst every week-day even 

 ing in this way, to receive religious instruction of 

 a familiar kind, in conjunction with which some 

 prayers from the Liturgy are offered, and Psalms 

 are sung. He never opens his Church except for 

 full and regular service. These people, with 

 whose aged Chief and his wife, I had had a special 

 interview by their own desire, now gathered 

 around us, in front of the little Parsonage, by 

 the river side, men and women and children, 

 to bid us adieu at the moment of our em 

 barkation. One woman, with the peculiar 

 modesty of manner which I have before described, 

 presented me, just as I was stepping into the 

 canoe, with a simple bark basket of her own 

 workmanship. Another was present who had 



