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number of the local missionaries, and by them carried 
out with earnestness during four years, in that part of 
the country where they only began to preach when we 
began to colonize. Its prevalence threw a repulsive shade 
over the whole course of missionary proceedings ; for 
some of the arguments used against the colonists were 
as unprincipled as they were uncharitable, and as devoid 
of Christian spirit as they were wanting in manly ho- 
nour. Apart from this dark stain, the results of the 
purely missionary system were by no means satisfactory. 
Besides that the very extensive instruction for which 
the missionaries really deserve credit was merely 
religious and in the native language, the chieftainship 
was destroyed among the missionary tribes, and the 
political as well as the physical condition of their 
scholars had clearly retrograded, 
I must, of course, except the labours of Mr. Had- 
field from these remarks ; but even he had steadily 
objected to their instruction in the English language. 
And even he was not free from another grave omis- 
sion made by the missionaries, the Government 
officers, and the Protectors of Aborigines. Although 
they professed such warm philanthropy towards the 
natives, they carried this philanthropy into their so- 
cial relations with them to a far less degree than the 
unassuming colonists. The principal teachers under 
the missionaries are generally their house-servants at 
the same time ; black their shoes, clean their win- 
dows, make their beds, groom their horses, and cook 
their dinner. The missionaries do not admit their 
most industrious pupils, or the proteges to whom they 
are most attached, to dine with them at the same 
table, or to walk when they like into their sitting- 
room, and hold converse on terms of equality and 
nmtual familiarity. I never saw a missionary or a Go- 
