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calculated to produce the most fatal consequences through- 

 out the country ; and have chosen rather to suffer, with 

 their teachers and friends, the destruction of their property, 

 and even to risk their lives in the protection of their bene- 

 factors, than become partakers in the spoils taken from the 

 Colonists. 



It is a pleasing and important feature in the history of 

 this calamitous affair, that not less than one hundred lives 

 of British subjects have been preserved from impending 

 destruction through the influence of the Missionaries, aided 

 by the exertions of their faithful followers ; and if any ad- 

 ditional evidence be required to establish the fact that great 

 advantages have resulted from the labours of these devoted 

 men, the plain and impartial statements in the foregoing 

 pages of an individual unconnected with sect or party, 

 of scenes which came immediately under his own obser- 

 vation, cannot but afford a convincing proof of their utility. 



Thus it is evident that the reason why a greater influ- 

 ence has not been exerted over the various tribes inhabiting 

 that country, is that the Missionary efforts have been con- 

 ducted on a scale far too contracted for such a vast popu- 

 lation ; had the whole country been brought under the same 

 moral cultivation as at the Missionary institutions, we should 

 not now have to deplore the loss of life and sacrifice of pro- 

 perty which this terrible calamity has occasioned. Few can 

 have perused the statements contained in these pages, in 

 reference to the degraded character of the people, without 

 feeling impressed with the conviction, that nothing short of 

 imparting the Gospel to the entire population will render 

 them a peaceable and happy people. 



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