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OF MERIBOHWHEY. 
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I inquired, " did they do any thing to please 
him?" The King replied, " We never thought of 
it"-no man ever thought what would please 
God." He was surrounded by the wonderful 
works of God, I observed, such as the sun, 
did he ever think how large it was ? Answer, 
They never thought of it. " Let the king think 
of it now," I said, "and tell me what he thinks?" 
He said he could not think of it, but we must tell 
him. With this request I immediately com- 
plied. On being asked where that luminary went 
in the night-time, he said he thought (speaking 
with seeming diffidence) it took a short turn from 
there, (pointing to the west) and came back to 
the east. " Does it come back under the world, 
or how ?" He could not tell, but he knew that 
sun, moon and stars, all went one way ; whether 
they went through or under the earth he did not 
know. He wished to be informed whether it 
was a new sun every morning, or the old one 
that came back again ; he thought white men 
were a kind of Gods compared to them ; and that 
in their own country they must have gods greater 
than themselves ; that when he looked at our 
clothes, and observed how fit they were for de- 
fending the skin from thorns, when he viewed our 
table, stools, and waggons, he wondered at us. 
" Does the King think that God is subject to 
death like men ?" Answer, He does not know. 
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