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God, and He will draw nigh to you." Walk closely with Him, and 

 his name will be glorified in you. Pursuing this course, you will 

 he sure of enjoying His blessing, and may cheerfully leave all events 

 in His hands. 



Your first object must be to acquire the language of the Fuegians. 

 To this you must apply with the utmost diligence, fully availing 

 yourself for this purpose of your intercourse with the natives on the 

 voyage ; as, till this point is gained, you can hold no free communi- 

 cation with the tribes on the island. In prosecution of this object, 

 we recommend you carefully to note dow^n in writing every new 

 word which you hear. These vocabularies you will, at your leisure, 

 classify and reduce to order, to form the basis of a grammar and 

 dictionary, and ultimately of translations into the language. In 

 prosecution of this design, it will be requisite that you should 

 ascertain, if practicable, which dialect is most extensively used in 

 the island, if it should be found that there are more than one ; as it 

 is obviously desirable that you should fix that which is most ex- 

 tensively used. 



In imparting religious instruction to the natives, you will make 

 the Bible the basis of all your teaching. You must never lose sight 

 of that great theological principle laid down in the sixth article of 

 the Church of England : — That Holy Scripture containeth all 

 things necessary to salvation ; so that whatsoever is not read therein, 

 nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man that it 

 should be believed as an article of the faith, or be thought requisite 

 or necessary to salvation." By this sound and salutary principle, 

 let the whole of the religious instruction which you impart to the 

 natives be governed. And we earnestly pray that God may give 

 you a mouth to speak, and them ears to hear, that they may so 

 *' know the Holy Scriptures that they may be made wise unto salva- 

 tion through faith in Christ Jesus.'* 



In your intercourse with the Fuegians, you will bear in mind that 

 it is the temporal advantages which you may be capable of commu- 

 nicating to them that they will be most easily and immediately 

 sensible of. Among these may be reckoned the acquisition of better 

 dwellings, and better and more plentiful food and clothing. Conse- 

 quently, you will consider it a primary duty to instruct them in cul- 

 tivating the potato, cabbage, and other vegetables ; to rear pigs, 

 poultry, &c., and to construct a commodious habitation, &c. You 



