CHAPTER IV. 



MISSISSAUGAH INDIANS, THEIR LOCATION.—— SABBATH 



SPENT AMONG THEM. PLEASING EFFECTS OF THEIR 



CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY. INDIAN PREACHERS 



ADDRESS. THEIR BOLD FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. 



LOGAN. YORK, UPPER CANADA. — -AUBURN PRISON. 



UTICA. TRENTON FALLS.— -HU DSON RIVER. - — 



BOARDING HOUSES,— EMBARKED AT NEW YORK FOR 



ENGLAND. DEATH OF ONE OF THE PASSENGERS. — - 



ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND.— REMARKS ON MISSIONS. 



Leaving the Grand River, I proceeded in com- 

 pany with Mr. Brandt, to visit the Mississaugah 

 Indians, who, in their conversion to Christia- 

 nity, during the time of their encampment at 

 Davis's Hamlet, became desirous of forming a 

 Settlement, on some fertile flats by the River 

 Credit. We arrived here on July the 21st, and 

 found them living in bark huts, and tents, to 

 the number, it was stated, of two hundred and 

 five souls, waiting to occupy the twenty log 

 houses, which were then building by contract 

 of the Provincial Government, and nearly 

 finished. A more seasonable and humane assis- 



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