64 WESTERN AFBXOA* 
Seeing the girls in the room he went to one 
about six years of age, laid his hand upon 
her head, and said to me, " this one my 
wife, my father done buy her for me long 
time ago." He soon was made acquainted 
with the fact that he could not have her 
then, nor at any subsequent period with the 
consent of the Missionaries. 
The children taken at that station were 
given to the Missionaries to be kept until 
they should arrive at their majority, with the 
condition that they should then be their 
own masters,— neither the parents nor 
Missionaries having further control over 
them. 
Parents are willing to give up their chil- 
dren thus, and give book ( a written agree- 
ment ) to that effect. This is a very proper 
way, in my opinion, for Missionaries to take 
children to instruct in the truths of Chris- 
tianity. For if taken young, and if proper 
training be given, by the time they are of 
age they become so well established in the 
principles of Christian morality, that they 
are likely to adhere to them through life. 
Daughters are emphatically the readiest 
