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free people he could advise not to attend the 
schools or church, and his slaves he could prohi- 
bit, once for all, from going near the mission. 
^‘Man proposes; God disposes/^ Mr. Caulker 
sought his own safety in the establishment of 
Shaingay Mission, but God intended to glorify 
himself in the salvation of the people. 
Soon after the work of clearing the ground and 
building the mission-chapel was begun, the old 
head-man returned to Shaingay” and again took 
up his abode. Not long after this he made peace 
with all the tribes about him, so that he was in 
no further dread of being killed. 
Now he would have been glad if the mission 
had not been commenced. But there it was. He 
had given a written title to our missionaries for 
the land. He could not buy it back, or induce 
them to give it up. But he determined the mis- 
sion should do nothing to save the people if he 
could help it. The missionaries might, indeed, 
educate his own children, but they should not 
make Christians of them. And this policy of 
hedging up the way of the missionaries by his 
influence as a king he pursued with considerable 
success for a number of years. He would neither 
enter the kingdom himself nor suffer others that 
would have entered to go in. But as I shall have 
frequent occasion to refer to Chief Caulker in 
this history, I dismiss him for the present. 
