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that bought me, and that because I could see no 

 need of that atonement for sin, which is the only 

 thing that has stood between me and hopeless 

 perdition ! If I have indeed been rescued from 

 such a wretched condition, if I have been effectu- 

 ally convinced of my sinfulness, and have been 

 led, in the exercise of faith, to apply unto the 

 Lord Jesus Christ for pardon and for sanctifica- 

 tion, surely, it can be attributed to nothing but the 

 grace of God. Much of my life has been spent 

 in the service of sin ; the little that remains, ought 

 to be sacredly devoted to God and the Redeemer, 

 May the Holy Spirit enable me to live in the 

 time to come, as a disciple of the blessed Sa- 

 viour. 



Monday, September 1. Stuarfs Lake. On the 

 8th of May last, I left New Caledonia, and went 

 as far as Fort Chipewyan, on the Athabasca Lake. 

 This afternoon, I returned to this place. While 

 I was at that lake, the Indians who were en- 

 camped about the fort, to the number of about 

 one hundred, rose up in arms against us, on account 

 of a quarrel between one of their people and one 

 of our men. We did not, however, come to blows ; 

 and, after a parley, the Indians were persuaded to 

 lay down their arms. — Those Chipeways are a 

 savage people ; and they have as I believe, killed 

 more white men, than any other tribe in the North 



