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fewer " priests," fewer " Jesuits," and less " kneeling " 

 in the procession in 1838. 



Line-of-battle ships — stately frigates, twelve in num- 

 ber : the Malabar — Hastings — Cornwallis — Incon- 

 stant — Hercules — Pique — Charybdis — Pearl — Vestal 

 — Medea — Dee — and Andromache escorted to our 

 shores, the able, proud, humane, (1) unlucky Vice-Eoy 

 and High Commissioner, with his clever advisers, the 

 Turtons, Bullers, Wakefields, Hansomes, Derbyshires, 

 Dunkins, cum multis aliis. 



On the 21st August, 1749, Kami was present at an 

 interview of delegates from three of the Indian nations 

 of Canada, the Anies, Micmacs and Hurons with the 

 French Governor of Quebec. The Anies (Oneidas) 

 delegates — four in number — were the only survivors 

 (two excepted) of a band of fifty Indians who had 

 recently " ambushed " near Montreal, where they went 

 in quest of plunder and had been killed by the French. 

 The Hurons were identical with those then settled at 

 Indian Lorette : we are told that they delivered their 

 harangues, seated on chairs, round His Excellency who 

 was seated, whilst the Micmacs, " sat on the ground 

 like Laplanders." Kalm describes the Hurons as " tall, 

 robust people, well shaped and of a copper colour. 

 They have short black hair wich is shaved on the fore- 

 head, from one ear to the other. None of them wear 

 hats or caps. Some have earrings, others not. Many of 

 them have the face painted all over with vermilion ; 

 others have only strokes of it on the forehead and near 

 the ears, and some paint their hair with vermilion. Eed 

 is the color they chiefly make use of in painting them- 

 selves ; but I have likewise seen some who had daubed 

 their faces with a black colour. Many of them have 



(1) I use the term advisedly, for had he followed out the 

 Colborne policy and gibetted the " Bermuda exiles, " he 

 would have had one sin less to atone for, at the hands of 

 Lord Brougham and other merciless enemies in England. 



