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duck. What chiefly drew my attention to it, was its 
manner of descending the bush when disturbed; it 
drew in its wings and its body, till it became as round 
as a pea, and rolled from leaf to leaf till it was lost in 
the grass. This the same creature did several times 
when I attempted to touch it. 
The missionaries meet with the people twice every 
day for instruction, and three times on the Lord's day. 
The number of men belonging to the settlement is 
one hundred and seventy-four, women two hundred 
and three, young men twenty-two, young women forty- 
six, children one hundred and ninety-one. The church 
consists of nineteen members, and the school contains 
one hundred and fifty. Mrs. Ebner and Mrs. Helm 
taught twenty-five girls needle-work. 
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