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vapour-bath is used both for healing diseases and as a pre- 
paration for young men who wish to assume the rank of 
warriors, 
They have no idea of Christianity, nor have missionaries 
ever visited them, offering a wide field for those philanthropists 
who are now sending the blessings of the gospel to distant 
lands: here is a people at our very doors, to whom we may 
atone in this way, in some measure, for the wrongs they have 
suffered at our hands, 
Their present and former modes of subsistence being — 
rapidly on the decline, it becomes an interesting question 
what is to become of these people. The views of the govern- 
ment, in this expedition, would ameliorate their condition, but 
their inherent dislike of the white man and his customs, are 
the great barrier to its success, and of three extremities 
my opinion is, they will adhere to their present life, and 
finally disappear entirely—they must either work, steal, or 
starve; stealing being more congenial, they will continue 
to follow it until repeated chastisement accomplishes their 
destruction. 
