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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 inftruct 

 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 

 French ecclefiaftics have allured fome few wretched Indian? 

 to their religion and intereft, and fettled them in fmnli vil- 

 lages; but by the accounts of their behaviour, in the feve* 

 ral wars of the French and Englijh, they were always guilty 

 of the greateft cruelties and brutalities ; and more {o than 

 their heathen countrymen ; and therefore it feems that they 

 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 prefenc 

 time, the Indian charity fchools, and miffions, conduced 

 by the Rev. Mr. Ele a zar 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 miffionaries, at their own cxpence, among 

 the Indians. And the Moravian Brethren s?e alfo very 

 edVive in the converfion of Gentiles ; fo that if Mr. Kahn 

 had confidered all thefe circumftances, he would have 

 judged otherwif- of the zeal of the Britijh nation, in pro. 

 pagatbg the gofpel among the Indians, F, 



