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in the camp, which proved how strongly the 

 Priests have entrenched them within the pale 

 of their bigotry and dominion. I offered to 

 bury the child, as they knew me to be a Priest, 

 but they refused, with the remark, that it must 

 be buried by their Priest ; and the mother of 

 the deceased child took the corpse upon her 

 back, and carried it the distance of thirty miles 

 to the French village of Sissaboo, where the 

 Priest resided, for burial. I merely observed 

 to Adelah, on this occasion, that I supposed 

 Indians were all of the Roman Catholic re- 

 ligion, he said ' yes] adding, ' you know in 

 England, quakers, when born, all come little 

 quakers, so Indians, all come little Catholics.' 



This being the case with the Indians of Nova 

 Scotia, and New Brunswick, it would be look- 

 ing upon a narrow horizon, not to perceive 

 great difficulties in the way of affording them 

 instruction in the English language, and seek- 

 ing to propagate and advance the Christian and 

 Protestant religion among them. Though of 

 a Christian profession, they remain shrouded 

 from the light of truth, from the Roman Cath- 

 olic Priests being opposed to their receiving 

 instruction in public schools, and to their being 

 in possession of the Bible. Under these circum- 

 stances, every moral obstacle presents itself in 



