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fligacy and vice generally prevail ; but a new 

 career, would probably await them in Africa, 

 and they would be hailed, on their return, as 

 introducing among their kindred race, what 

 was useful, and encouraging in the formation 

 of new settlements. 



Leaving these people, and the Indian camp, 

 I returned to the province of New Brunswick : 

 and soon after my arrival, His Excellency, the 

 Lieutenant Governor, was pleased to favour me 

 with his sentiments on the subject of the In- 

 dians of the Province. I read the communica- 

 tion with much interest, as expressing the most 

 benevolent feelings towards them ; and the 

 subsequent information which I obtained 

 through visiting their several stations, con- 

 vinced me, that His Excellency had in contem- 

 plation the only feasible plan (combining 

 system and ceconomy) for the purpose of re- 

 claiming the Aborigines from the woods, to a 

 social existence in villages on their own lands. 

 Though more numerous than in the sister 

 province of Nova Scotia, the Indians of New 

 Brunswick, may probably, not far exceed two 

 thousand. These are becoming more and more 

 demoralized in their unsettled and wandering 

 state, and it is a question of location, or ex- 

 tinction of the remnant of a people, who were 



