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A GOOD HARVEST, 



wore ; and all would be led to read the Book 

 that the Great Spirit had given to them, which 

 the Indians had not yet known, and which 

 would teach them how to live well and to die 

 happy. I added, that it was the will of the 

 Great Spirit, which he had declared in His 

 Book, 6 that a man should have but one wife, and 

 a woman but one husband.' He smiled at this 

 information, and said that c he thought that there - 

 was no more harm in Indians having two wives 

 than one of the settlers,' whom he named. I 

 grieved for the depravity of Europeans as noticed 

 by the heathen, and as raising a stumblingblock 

 in the way of their receiving instruction, and our 

 conversation closed upon the subject by my 

 observing, that ' there were some very bad white 

 people, as there were some very bad Indians, 

 but that the good book condemned the practice.' 



We had an unusually fine passage from the 

 Factory ; and in our approach to Fort Douglas, 

 we were cheered with the sight of several stacks 

 of corn standing near to some of the settlers 

 houses, and were informed, not only of a good 

 harvest, but also of more than a hundred and 

 fifty head of cattle having arrived at the colony, 

 from the Illinois territory. These were encour- 

 aging circumstances, and I saw with peculiar 

 pleasure, a stack of wheat near the Mission 



