281 TRAVELS THROUGH UPPER CANADA ! . 
learned to attend to certain outward ceremo¬ 
nies; but they stiii continue to be swayed by 
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the same violent passions as before, and have 
imbibed nothing of the genuine spirit of 
Christianity. 
The Moravian missionaries have wrought a 
greater change in the minds of the Indians than 
any others and hrfve succeeded so far as to in¬ 
duce some of them to abandon their savage 
mode of life, to renounce war, and to culti¬ 
vate the earth. It is with the Munsies, a 
small tribe resident on the east side of Lake 
St. Clair, that they have had the most success ; 
but the number that have been so converted 
is small indeed. The Homan Catholics have 
the most adherents, as the outward forms and 
parade of their religion are particularly cal¬ 
culated to strike the attention of the Indians, 
and as but little restraint is laid on them by 
the missionaries of that persuasion, in conse¬ 
quence of their profession of the new faith. 
The Quakers, of all people, have had the 
least success amongst them; the doctrine of 
non-resistance, which they set out with 
preaching, but ill accords with the opinion of 
the Indian; and amongst some tribes, where 
they have atttempted to inculcate it, partcu- 
larly amongst the Shawnese, one of the most 
warlike tribes to the north of the Ohio, they 
