dians have come to see
the Governor about building them a village, and deduct the money
due them from the lands their fathers have ceded to the British
Government, and likewise for getting boundaries of their
hunting-grounds established. The other Indians have come for the
purpose of attending the approaching camp-meeting, as they have
never had but three days' instruction from Peter Jones last autumn.
As soon as any of them experience the love of Jesus in their own
souls, they begin to feel for others, and, like the ancient
Christians, go wherever they can preaching the Lord Jesus. Here is
a whole tribe converted to God, with the external aid of only three
days' instruction, except what they communicate to one another, and
who for six months have proved the reality of their Christian
experience by blameless and holy lives. Surely "this is the Lord's
doing, and marvellous in our eyes."

Elder Case told me that on his way from Cobourg to York, he saw an
Indian sitting by the road-side, he asked him where his brothers
and sisters were, he replied, encamped in the woods. Elder Case
told him to call them, as he wanted to talk some good words to
them. They soon came together to hear the _me-ko-to-wik_, or black
coat man. They pitched a little Bethel of logs, about breast high,
over-topped with bushes, for the purpose of worshipping
_Keshamunedo_ (God.) After kneeling down to implore God's blessing,
they took their seats. As soon as Elder Case commenced to speak,
their hearts seemed to melt like wax. So much for the Scugog and
Mud Lake Indians. The Rice Lake Indians appear to be more
intelligent, and are the handsomest company of men I have seen.
Potash, their chief, is very majestic in appearance, possesses a
commanding voice, and speaks with great animation.

_June 12th._--My brother William, who came from Newmarket
yesterday, informs me that he preached to more than fifty of these
bewildered enquirers after truth on Sunday--none of them could
interpret, but some could understand English, and they told others
what the good man said. An Indian woman came to a little white boy,
holding out her book (as most of them have bought books) and said,
"boy, boy," showing great anxiety that the boy would teach her, but
the little fellow was afraid, and slip