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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 inftrudl 

 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 

 them 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 likewife intended to adorn 



their 



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

 JWwo&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/Viw and Englijk* they were always guihy 

 of the greatcft cruelties and brutalities ; and more fo than, 

 their heathen countrymen ; and therefore it feems that the/ 

 have been rather perverted than converted. On the other 

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

 guage of the Virginian Indians, and converted many of 

 them to the true knowledge of God ; and at this prefent 

 time, the Indian charity fchools, and miflions, condu&ad 

 by the Rev. Mr. Eleazar Wheelock, have brought numbers 

 of the Indians to the knowledge of the true God. The fo 

 ciety for propagating the gofpel in foreign parts, fends 

 every year many miflionaries, at their own expence, among 

 the Indians. And the Moravian Brethren ~sre alfo very 

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

 had confidered all thefe circumftances, he would have* 

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

 jpagating the gofpel among the Indiant. F. 



