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each of their heads, but the gravity of their 
countenances indicated considerable perturbation 
within. 
• 
We formed our three waggons into a triangle, 
and placed the tent in the centre, the erection of 
which excited great astonishment. A house to 
be erected in five minutes must have appeared to 
them, until then, impossible. Not one of the na- 
tives ventured near our tent till worship in the 
evening, when it was not only filled by them, but 
many sat in rows opposite to the tent-door. 
Knowing their murderous character I addressed 
them from Gal. vi. 10. " Let us do good unto all 
men." They sat patiently and seemed to listen 
with attention— every thing was novel to them, 
the things seen as well as the things said, the 
tent, table, candle, singing, prayer by our inter- 
preter in their own language, all seemed to in- 
terest and surprise them. In no part of the jour- 
ney did I more earnestly desire the presence of 
the friends of Missions than at this time to be 
witnesses of the scene. 
Munameets came into the tent with the inter- 
preter in the evening. On seeing the two come 
in together I expected that something of import- 
ance was to be communicated. He told us he 
had heard we intended to visit SybinelFs people, 
a nation to the eastward of the Tammaha, after 
