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under the idea that it will give them courage, 

 and a spirit of hatred and revenge against 

 their enemies. What can calm these fero- 

 cious feelings, and curb this savage fury of the 

 passions in the torturous destruction of de- 

 fenceless women and sucking infants? what, 

 but the introduction and influence of Chris- 

 tianity, the best civilizer of the wandering 

 natives of these dreary wilds, and the most 

 probable means of fixing them in the pursuit 

 of agriculture, and of those social advantages 

 and privileges to which they are at present 

 strangers. 



May 24. — By the arrival of the boats from 

 Quappelle, I received another little Indian 

 boy for admission into the school; and felt 

 encouraged in the persuasion, that should we 

 extend our travels among the Indians, and 

 make known to them our simple object in 

 visiting them as Missionaries, many probably 

 among the different tribes who traded at the 

 Company's Posts, would be gradually led to 

 give up their children for education. I had 

 now several under my care, who could con- 

 verse pretty freely in English, and were be- 

 ginning to read tolerably well, repeating the 

 Lord's prayer correctly. The primary object 

 in teaching them, was to give them a religious 



