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the chance of want coming upon them when they 
should have expended the original payment. 
We looked much further ; and considered the real 
payment to he made to them to consist in the confer- 
ring on them the great boon of civilization by such 
degrees as to secure its permanency; and, moreover, 
in the preserving for them a property of sufficient 
value to allow affluence and comfort to wait on the 
process, and crown its final completion. Such were 
the thoughts that passed through my mind after the 
whalers had returned on shore for the night ; and I 
felt happy in supposing, that the humblest share in the 
execution of so great an enterprise might be envied by 
the most ambitious of men. 
