RUSSIAN SCHOOLS. 



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tianity among them. In their war excursions 

 they adopt a different mode of warfare to that 

 of the Hed River Indians, and those towards 

 the Atlantic coast, by openly taking the field 

 against their enemies ; and keeping their pri- 

 soners alive for slaves. These are numerous 

 among some of the tribes ; and many might be 

 obtained, without purchasing them, for religious 

 instruction. In fact there appear to be many 

 points in this vast territory where there is a 

 prospect of establishing well-conducted missions 

 to the great and lasting benefit of the natives. 

 But the object should be pursued upon a regular 

 and persevering system, and while the Mis- 

 sionary needs the active co-operation of the 

 resident Officer in his arduous engagement with 

 the Indians ; no idle prejudice should ever pre 

 vent his endeavours to civilize and fix them in 

 the cultivation of the soil where it may be 

 effected. 



The Russians it appears are affording reli- 

 gious instruction in the establishment of schools 

 for the education of half-caste children, with 

 those of the natives in their Factories on the 

 North-west coast of North America. A gentle- 

 man informed me that he saw, at their Establish- 

 ment at Norfolk Sound, a priest and a school- 

 master, who were teaching the children, and 



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