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passed with the oxen. " He has gone down into the sea, " 

 was their reply, " but we belong to the same people." " Oh 

 no ; you need not tell me that ; he takes no slaves, but 

 wishes peace : you are not of his tribe." This anti- 

 slavery character excites such universal attention, that 

 any missionary who winked at the gigantic evils involved 

 in the slave-trade would certainly fail to produce any 

 good impression on the native mind. 



