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not then obtained. His country, he said, was 

 getting very poor, and the soil almost all taken 

 up by people who came to it, which made him 

 wish to raise some produce from the land, and 

 see his Indians, with their families, in better 

 circumstances. " I go," he remarked, " once 

 more about the grant, may be they think I 

 come too often, perhaps turn their back, then I 

 turn my back, and never ask again." 



This intelligent chief would often take me 

 into his canoe, during my visit to his tribe, and 

 in the course of conversation, frequently sur- 

 prised me with his pertinent and striking re- 

 marks on the subject of religion. He expressed 

 much surprise, and difficulty, at the many 

 different denominations among Protestant 

 Christians, which he had heard of. ■ There,' 

 said he, pointing to a small cove in the Bay, 

 as he was paddling his canoe along shore one 

 morning*, ' I saw five or six persons plunged 

 for baptism, a short time ago.' Then holding 

 up the paddle, he added, as the water dripped 

 from it, 6 1 think the Great Spirit can as easily 

 bless that small quantity for the purpose, as 

 he can all the water in the basin around us.' 

 He is a decided Roman Catholic, as are all the 

 Indians of the Province ; and a circumstance 

 occurred in the death of a child, while I was 



