INTRODUCTION. 



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of the two Companies has enabled the Di- 

 rectors to put in practice the improvements 

 which I have reason to believe they had long 

 contemplated. They have provided for re- 

 ligious instruction by the appointment of 

 two Clergymen of the Established Church, 

 under whose direction school-masters and 

 mistresses are to be placed at such stations 

 as afford the means of support for the esta- 

 blishment of schools. The offspring of the 

 voyagers and labourers are to be educated 

 chiefly at the expense of the Company; 

 and such of the Indian children as their 

 parents may wish to send to these schools, 

 are to be instructed, clothed, and main- 

 tained, at the expense of the Church Mis- 

 sionary Society, which has already allotted 

 a considerable sum for these purposes, and 

 has also sent out teachers, who are to act 

 under the superintendence of the Rev. Mr. 

 West, the principal chaplain of the Com- 

 pany. 



