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shortly before vie arrived at Niagara, killed his 
only son with his own hand. The son, it 
seems, was a drunken good for nothing fellow, 
who had often avowed his intention of de¬ 
stroying his father. One evening he abso¬ 
lutely entered the apartment of his father, and 
had begun to grapple with him, perhaps with 
a view to put his unnatural threats into exe- 
cu , when Brandt drew a short sword, and 
felled him to the ground. Brandt speaks of 
this affair with regret, but at the same time 
without any of that emotion which another 
person than an Indian might be supposed to 
feel. He consoles himself for the act, by 
thinking that he has benefited the nation, by 
ridding them of a rascal. 
Brandt wears his hair in the Indian style, 
and also the Indian dress; instead of the wrap¬ 
per or blanket, he wears a short coat, such as 
I have described, similar to a hunting frock. 
Though infinite pains have been taken by 
the French Roman Catholics, and other mis¬ 
sionaries, to propagate the gospel amongst the 
Indians, and though many^diiferent tribes have 
been induced thereby to submit to baptism, 
yet it does not appear, except in very few in¬ 
stances, that any material advantages have re¬ 
sulted from the introduction of the Christian 
religion amongst them. They have learned 
to repeat certain forms of prayer; they have 
