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women and the children, as I never before 

 witnessed. Drinking made them quarrelsome, 

 and one of the men became so infuriated, that 

 he would have killed another with his bow, had 

 not the master of the post immediately rushed 

 in and taken it from him. The following day, 

 being Sunday, the servants were all assembled 

 for divine worship, and again in the evening. 

 Before I left the fort, I married several of the 

 Company's servants, who had been living with, 

 and had families by, Indian or half-caste women, 

 and baptized their children. I explained to 

 them the nature and obligations of marriage 

 and baptism ; and distributed among them 

 some Bibles and Testaments, and Religious 

 Tracts. 



With the Indians who were at the Fort, 

 there was one of the Company's servants who 

 had been with the tribe nearly a year and a half, 

 to learn their language as an interpreter. They 

 were very partial to him, and treated him with 

 great kindness and hospitality. He usually 

 lived with their chief, and upon informing him 

 who I was, and the object for which I came to 

 the country, he welcomed me by a hearty shake 

 of the hand ; while others came round me, and 

 stroked me on the head, as a fond father would 

 his favourite boy. On one occasion, when I 



