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ducting the service, and declined, on being requested, to 

 lower it. The teacliers now began to be alarmed, and kept 

 a sharp look-out ; presently the savages rose, and lifted up 

 their hatchets ; ' l)ut theii- luuids trembled, and their hearts 

 failed them ' — they felt the teachers were looking at them. 

 The service went on, and agam the savages made a move as 

 before, but ' again their hands trembled, and their hearts 

 failed them.' Now came the teachers' turn to bully. Clos- 

 ing the pi-ayer abruptly they peremptorily 'ordered the 

 savages out of the house; the latter asked to remain, but on 

 the teachers ri.sing from their knees, and insisting on their 

 going, ' they then all rushed out of the door, and shutting it 

 after them, made for their canoes, and were seen no more.' 

 Such is the galimatias, which is called by Mr. Murray and 

 his friend ' a remarkable deliverance,' ' a miraculous deliver- 

 ance,' ' a merciful interposition of the Lord.' But there is a 

 sort of appendix to the story which must not be omitted. 

 It seems that on these fellows going back to their villages, 

 and reporting with nuich disappointment their failure, the 

 people of an adjoining district laughed at them, and deter- 

 mined to succeed in the same venture ; with this purpose 

 they set off in tliree canoes, and with sixty men, but on 

 their way were overtaken by a tempest, which dashed their 

 canoes to pieces, and compelled them to trudge back by 

 land, though they had got two-thirds on their way. The 

 opinion of Messrs. Murray and Hardie is, that the teachers 

 referred their deliverance to the right cause, when they said, 

 ' God alone saved us.' It is clearly not to such men we 



