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tained them ; at the same time promising that 

 if he would go back to the school-house, he 

 should have his clothes again ; but added, that 

 " it would never be allowed for Indians to bring 

 their children to the school, which was esta- 

 blished to teach them what was for their hap- 

 piness, merely for the purpose of getting them 

 clothed and provided with blankets, and then 

 to entice them to leave it." 



Jan. 20. — The severity of the winter has 

 driven a number of wolves to hover about the 

 Settlement in search of provisions ; they are 

 perfectly harmless however, as they are met 

 singly, and skulk away like a dog conscious of 

 having committed a theft. But in packs, they 

 kill the horses, and are formidable to en- 

 counter. In the pursuit of buffaloes and the 

 deer on the plains, they are known to form a 

 crescent, and to hurry their prey over pre- 

 cipices, or upon the steep muddy banks of 

 a river, where they devour them. No instance 

 has occurred of their having seized any of the 

 children of the settlers, though they some- 

 times kill and eat the carcases of the dogs 

 close to their houses. 



February 3. — It appears that I have given 

 great offence to one of the remaining Swiss 

 emigrants, for refusing to baptize, at his im- 



