viii PREFACE. 



ration have passed away, in gross ignorance 



and almost brutal degradation. 



Should any information he is enabled to give 

 excite a further Christian sympathy, and more 

 active benevolence in their behalf, it will truly 

 rejoice his heart : and his prayer to God, is, 

 that the Aborigines of a British territory, may 

 not remain as outcasts from British Missionary 

 exertions ; but may be raised through their 

 instrumentality, to what they are capable of 

 enjoying, the advantages of civilized and social 

 life, with the blessings of Christianity. 



September, 1824. 



