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 appeared to approve of my advice, and we parted. I stayed all night at Mr. J. Applemans.

Thursday 6th. — Spent most of the day at the Mission house, Upper Mohawks, examining with Mr. S. C. and G. T., the Mohawk translations, and reporting by letter the errors to the Rev. Dr. Bangs, of New York, by the request of Elder Case. The society at Salt Springs is prospering finely, amounting at the present time to sixty members; who have abandoned ardent spirits, and are now a praying people. The work at the Upper Mission continues about the same. Schools are doing well, except at Davisville.

Friday 7th. — Set off this morning with my two comrades from the Credit, and George Henry from the Grand River. Preached in Oxford this evening to a small attentive congregation in Esquire Ingersol's school house, from Acts xiii. 41. Great attention was paid. G. Henry related his experience in English, P. Beaver in Indian, and W. Jackson closed by prayer.

Saturday 8th. — Travelled this day about 34 miles to the township of London, where a few Chippeways were encamped. Much fatigued with the journey.

Sunday 9th. — This morning we visited the Indians at their camps; there were seven adults and a few children. The men were Caleb (chief of the Sawble River Indians,) John Mundway and Thomas Smith. After collecting them together, Bro. P. Beaver told them the object of our visit, and hoped they would pay attention to our message. I then addressed them in substance as follows. That having lately found the Great Spirit and his blessed religion, we felt an anxious desire that all our brethren should participate in the same blessings, and with these feelings of love and pity for them, we had come to tell them the words of the Great Spirit. I then gave them an account of the creation of man in a state of purity, of his fall, and