at Kingston, in the course of the year, under the most satisfactory evidence of their being sincere followers of Christ. The artless expressions of some of these African Converts, like those of their brethren in Sierra Leone, are very affecting, and powerfully descriptive of the work of grace on the heart. In March, the New Chapel, which is calculated to hold 2000 persons, was in considerable forwardness. At Spanish Town, new premises have been purchased, in place of those destroyed by fire. Mr. Coultart had visited Manchineel, which is about 60 miles from Kingston. The people are anxious for a Missionary, and have begun to raise a fund for the erection of a Place of Worship. He had also visited the aged Negro Preacher, Moses Baker, at Montego Bay. He is now blind, but conducted the Worship with the greatest propriety, and sustains a most exemplary character. The Gentleman on whose Estate Mr. Baker resides, spoke in the highest terms of the character and conduct of his Negroes, which he ascribes to the influence of religion. A Missionary being wanted for this Station, Mr. Henry Tripp, of Kingston, was to proceed thither, in order to make trial of the situation. Bahamas. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Islands and Missionaries. A Municipal regulation in these Islands had, for some years, prevented the Mis sionaries from instructing the Slaves before sun-rise or after sun-set; which were, in fact, the only seasons when many of them could receive religious instruction: but this restriction has been lately removed. This event has occasioned a large increase in the Congregations. There are 573 Scholars. Members-Whites, 580: Blacks, 586. Of the effect of the Scriptures in these Islands, the last Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society gives the following statement of a Correspondent: The inhabitants of these Islands generally respect the Word of God: many prize it highly; and, since they have been blessed with it, their moral condition has been greatly improved. 1 am informed, there is no comparison between the moral state of this Colony now, and twenty years ago, when they had few, if any, Bibles. The Sabbath was then totally disregarded: now, I believe, it is kept with as much decorum as in most parts of England. BERMUDA. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 1788. James Dunbar, Missionary. The Members increase. Many appear to be truly converted. There is a Sunday School, of upward of 50 Coloured Children. Members-Whites, 48: Blacks, 49. AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY. This Society, which consists chiefly of People of Colour, had distributed, within its first year, 505 Bibles and Testaments The domestic object of this Institution is stated to be To foster the devotional spirit which is evidently on the increase, to sow the seeds of education among the lower orders, to excite to the study of the Holy Scriptures, and thereby to improve the moral and religious condition of all classes of the inhabitants of Bermuda. North-American Endians. THE Journal of Mr. Hodgson, of Liverpool, mentioned in the last Survey, and printed in the Numbers for November and December, will have awakened a lively interest in every attentive reader on behalf of the American Indians. That Gentleman has been so kind as to furnish us with an estimate of the total number of Indians within the territory of the United States. He received it from the Rev. Dr. Morse, who has lately travelled very extensively among the Indians, on a commission from the American Government, with a view to ascertain their numbers and condition: their numbers are thus estimated, according to their situation :— New England 2,247 New York 4,840 These Indians are all in the territories of the United States, and east of the Rocky Mountains. What further number may inhabit other parts of these territories, and the extensive regions of British America, must be, at present, matter of conjecture. It Dr. Morse has laid before the American Government a Plan for the Civilization of the Indians, founded on his observations of their condition. is understood that a communication will be made to the British Government by the President, requesting its co-operation in a general scheme of Civilization, to comprehend the whole body of the Native Indians. Pro In surveying the efforts now making by different Societies among these Tribes, we shall pass from the West-India Islands, to the southern part of the Continent, and first visit the Mosquitos, in the Bay of Honduras. ceeding northward, we find, to the west of the Mississippi, among the multitude who inhabit that region, various bodies of Osages, and a migration of Cherokees from the main body to the east of the Mississippi-leaving for the present this branch of the Cherokees, we cross that river, and visit the Creeks, the Choctaws, and the Chickasaws, and then the main body of the Cherokees, in connection with which the state of the Mission among the emigrants before-mentioned_will be considered-proceeding further northward, to the Delawares near Lake Erie, the Tuscaroras and Senecas in the State of New York, the Chippeways and the Mohawks in Canada, we shall finish the survey by the Red-River Indians to the south of Lake Winnipeg. We regret that the press of matter prevented us from giving, in the course of the last Volume, the proceedings of the Board of Missions among the Cherokees and Choctaws: in the following abstract, all the most important intelligence is stated up to the latest dates. Besides the Stations among these Indians enumerated in the following abstract, several Religious Bodies in America have Missionaries and Teachers among these or other Tribes of Indians; some of whom are stationary, and others itinerate for different periods. All the principal Denominations, indeed, of Christians in the United States are beginning to second the views of the Government, in reference to the Civilization of the Indians; and, with the view of accomplishing this object, and the still higher and nobler purpose of their Eternal Salvation, are every where uniting with instruction in the arts of civilized life the knowledge of that Gospel which is the most efficacious Civilizer of Man. Mosquitos. Nephew of the principal Chieftain, George Frederic, are under education in the Free School at Belize. The Superintendant, Colonel Arthur, has thus revived his correspondence with the King, and has received the most favourable assurances of the wish of the Chiefs to have their Children Some account of these Indians, the most southerly of the North-American Tribes to which attention has been latterly directed, was given at p. 70 of the Survey for 1820, and the parts of our work there referred to. The design of the Church Missionary Society, and of the Authorities in the Settle-educated. ment at Honduras, to benefit these Tribes, George Frederic resides at Cape Gracias a Dios. At Sandy Bay, about 30 miles south of the Cape, there is a population of about 2000: and this seems the most eligible spot for a Missionary Establishment: was also there stated. The prospect of operating upon them from that Settlement is, in some measure, beginning to open. The Son and the English is there a good deal spoken: up- | again, and detaining them thereby about a ward of 300 Children might be collected. month in one place, and the toilsome work of pushing the boats forward by poles against the stream carrying them on in their best days only 15 miles a day, they did not reach Union till the 18th of Fe There are various Tribes of Indians who acknowledge dependence on the King of the Mosquitos: they are, at present, however, but little known; not having much intercourse with the people of the coast:bruary 1821-ten months, within two some are known, indeed, to be so far civilized, as to be friendly to any one who would go among them. The Baptist Missionary Society has appointed Mr. James Bourne to proceed to Honduras. Osages. UNION. A Missionary Settlement, formed among the Osages of the Arkansaw, on the west bank of Grand River, about a mile distant; in a fine prairie, or open land without trees, of many hundred acres-25 miles from the junction of Grand River with the Arkansaw; which flows into the Mississippi, after a very meandering course of about 700 miles. AMERICAN UNITED FOREIGN MIS- 1820. Missionaries: W. F. Vaill, Epaphras Chapman. Dr. Marcus Palmer, Physician. Teachers, Mechanics, and Farmers: Stephen Fuller, Abr. Redfield, J. M. Spalding, W. C. Requa, Alex. Woodruff, G. Requa. With two married and six unmarried Females and four Children, the Mission Family amounted to twenty-one. The preparatory measures, with the journey and voyage of the Family, its first proceedings, and early afflictions and deaths, were stated at pp. 365-367 of the Volume for 1820, and at pp. 86, and 164-167 of that for 1821. Having left New York on the 20th of April 1820, this Christian Company reached Little Rock, about half way between the mouth of the Arkansaw and its ultimate destination, by way of the Ohio and Mississippi, on the 23d of July. In working up the lower part of the Arkansaw, through the low country and in sultry weather, almost all the Family suffered much from sickness, and two Females died. On the 4th of October, some of the company set forward, and proceeded partly by water and partly by land, with the view of preparing temporary buildings: they reached their destination about the middle of November, and were cordially received by the Indians. After a long detention at Little Rock, by the low state of the river, the rest of the Family embarked on the 12th of December; but, the water falling days, from the time of their setting forward on their journey: so dependent on circumstances, under the will of God, are journeyings and voyages in these back regions! They had arrived at the mouth of Grand River on the 10th of February: but up that stream, which was too deep for the use of the poles, the boats were chiefly moved forward against a powerful current, by the toilsome and hazardous work of pulling them on by means of the bushes which overhung the water: they were eight days in passing these 25 miles. A few days after their arrival at Union, four of the Brethren attended a Council of the Nation, held at the chief Village of the Osages, about 28 miles west of the Station; at which their object was fully approved. At the latest dates, temporary buildings had been erected, about 100 acres of land enclosed, and stock procured. An impending war, between the Cherokees and the Osages of the Arkansaw, awakened much apprehension lest the object of the Mission should be greatly retarded. 1820. Missionaries: Nathaniel B. Dodge, Benton Pixley, With the ten Wives of these Labourers, five unmarried Females, and sixteen Children, the Mission Family contained fortyone persons. With what judicious views the Assistants of the Society's Missions, both male and female, have been selected, will appear from the following extract of a communication by the Society to the Government; The Mission Family contains a person qualified for the blacksmith and whitesmith "business, and who is an excellent teacher of vocal music, a shoemaker, and two farmers. The Females, collectively. maker, a carpenter and millwright, a waggon are competent to teach the Indian Females (in addition to the ordinary business of the kitchen) to make bread, butter, and cheese; to sew, knit, spin, and weave; to cut out and make garments for both men and women; and some of them have had several years' experience, in teaching Schools of common and of higher orders. This new sphere of exertion was opened to the Society in the following manner. The principal Chief of the Missouri Osages, with the Counsellor and the Warrior of the Nation, visited Washington to solicit assistance in Schools and Civilization. Not being on friendly terms with the Arkansaw Osages, the result of very common intrigues on the part of rival traders, they seem to have felt some jealousy at the establishment of the Mission among them. Colonel M Kenney, Superintendant of Indian Trade, ever anxious to benefit the Native Tribes, apprised the Society of the wishes of the Missouri Deputation. The Secretary, the Rev. Dr. Milledoller, was, in consequence, deputed by the Board to visit Washington. After various conferences, à Covenant was entered into with the Osages, under the full sanction of the Government, for the establishment of a Mission Family among them. Colonel McKenney considered it a most happy event, that the two Missions to the Osages should follow in such quick succession; as this would tend to allay the mutual jea lousies of the two bodies. On making public the proposal for this Second Mission, upward of 100 persons, in the course of a few weeks, offered their services; and out of these the Family was selected. The appeal for support was also liberally answered, by contributions in money to the amount of 9000 dollars, and in clothes and stores of the value of 5000. The Mission Family assembled at New York, at the beginning of March of last year. Public Services were held, and crowded assemblies met, on the 5th and 6th of that month, as on occasion of the departure of the Mission to the Arkansaw Osages: see p. 367 of our Volume for 1820. On the 7th of March, they departed, amidst the tears and prayers of multitudes collected to bid them farewell. In Philadelphia, great public interest was excited: and contributions were made to the amount of 1800 dollars. At most places, indeed, by land and on the rivers, they were received with much affection; and were frequently dismissed with exhortations and encouragements, in the midst of many tears. On the 31st of March, the Family reached Pittsburgh on the 10th of April, they embarked there on the Ohio: May the 9th, they reached the Mississippi: till the 5th of June was occupied in working up that river, 160 or 170 miles, to St. Louis: : on the 8th, they entered the Missouri, and, after 20 days' labour, reached the Osage River, about 160 miles: on the 6th of August, they had arrived within a few miles of their destination; having lost, in these journeyings of about five months, one excellent member of their family: Mrs. Newton had departed, on the 6th of May, in the passage down the Ohio, full of faith and of a joyful hope of glory. Preparatory measures have been taken by the Board, for the establishment of a Third Mission among the Western InThe Rev. Jonathan Lesslie and dians. the Rev. Solomon Giddings have been sent to explore the Indian Country on both sides of the Missouri, in order to ascertain the best spot for fixing another Missionary Family. Creeks. The territory of this Nation is in the central parts of the State of Georgia. White persons are not allowed to settle among them, unless in some way closely of its Warriors is about 3500. the necessity of Civilization to their future licitous for Schools, and are beginning to existence as a people, they are become socultivate the arts of life. These and other particulars are communicated by Mr. Hodgson, in the Narrative of his Journey connected with the Nation. The number Aware of printed in our last Volume. Choctaws. This Nation is divided into three districts-the Upper Towns, the Lower Towns, and the Six Towns. The efforts which their White Brethren are making for their benefit, have drawn forth, on their part, an unexpected and encouraging spirit of liberality. In 1816, the Choctaws sold a tract of country, for which they were to receive, from the United States, 6000 dollars annually for 17 years. In September 1819, the Council of the Lower Towns devoted their third of this annuity to the establishment of a School and the advancement of Civilization, in their district: and this noble example was followed, in March 1820, by the Six Towns; and, in June, by the Upper Towns-6000 dollars being thus appropriated annually to this object by the Nation. taws are aware that these appropriations are not adequate to the great purpose in view; but they have made them in full confidence, that their White Brethren will The Choc grant such further aid, as will complete | Choctaw Agency, and 145 from the Walnut Hills, the establishment already formed at Elliot in the Upper Towns District, and form similar establishments in each of the other Districts. The American Board of Missions have felt it their duty to accomplish, with all which are a little below the entrance of the Yazoo into the Mississippi. AMERICAN BOARD OF MISSIONS. 1818. Alfred Wright, Missionary. Teachers, Mechanics, and Farmers: practicable speed, the desires of the Na-Loring S. Williams, Moses Jewell, An son Dyer, Zechariah Howes, Joel Wood, John Smith, Elij. Bardwell, Byington. There are six married and two unmar. ried Females: and, in April last, six mechanics and labourers joined the Mission. Of the persons above-named, Mr. Wil tion, in order to prevent the disappointment which might be felt by them from delay. An establishment has been accordingly formed, in the Lower Towns District, which has been named MAYHEW, in affectionate remembrance of an early and laborious Missionary among the Indians. A third establishment is in preparation, in||liams and Mr. Jewell only were mentioned the District of the Six Towns: but the operations of the Board are greatly embarrassed by the inadequacy of their funds, which has subjected the establishments to serious inconvenience. in the last List, given in the Survey for 1820. Of the others there enumerated, Mr. Kingsbury and Dr. Pride have removed to the New Station at Mayhew: in August 1819, Mr. Kanouse left the MisThat the Nation demands the assiduous sion: in September, Mr. A. V. Williams concern of Christians will appear from died (see Vol. for 1820, pp. 325, 326); the following account of its present state, and, Sept. 19, 1820, Mr. Fisk died: of extracted from a Report made to the Secre-him his surviving companions give this tary at War: The Choctaws still continue the slaves of ignorance, vice, and superstition. Numbers are every year butchered in the most inhuman manner, because they are supposed to possess the power of witchcraft. Intemperance abounds; and many of the Whites, in the neighbouring settlements, un blushingly set at defiance the laws prohibiting the introduction of whiskey. Partial and feeble reso. lutions are formed by the Natives to suppress this evil; but it is feared that they will not soon become effectual. Many of them say, they "wish their Children to be at School, that they may learn better things." Of these Children, there are, it is said, 1000, in different parts, ready to attend School, when the means of instruction shall be provided. The Missionaries observe, in reference to the importance of immediate and vigorous exertions: high character In laborious industry, in patient self-denial, in pious example, and in holy and ardent devotion of soul and body to the Missionary Cause, he was pre-eminent. The Mission was joined, July 1, 1820, by Mr. Dyer and Mr. Howes: Mr. Wood, their companion, being delayed by sickness, 120 miles short of Elliot, did not arrive till the 22d of September. They had all left Pittsburgh in April, in company of Mr. Hitchcock and Mr. Orr, proceeding to the Arkansaw Mission of the Society. They descended the Ohio and Mississippi together, till they reached the mouth of the White River, on the 17th of June, when they separated for their ||repective destinations. In December 1820, the Rev. Alfred Wright arrived. Should our plan of operations be followed up for a short time, further aid may be expected from the On November the 4th of that year, anNatives. Judging from their friendly disposition, other body of Labourers embarked at Pittsfrom the great interest which they take in educa-burgh, amounting, with Females and Chiltion, and from what they have already done, we think it a reasonable conclusion, that, at no very distant period, the Choctaws will provide, in a great measure, for the support of their own Schools. But should the impulse which they have received be suffered to subside, and the appropriations that they have made remain unproductive for want of such additional aid as would put them in operation, their hopes would be disappointed-their Schools would languish and the labour of years and the expense of thousands would be necessary to raise them to the same pitch of benevolent exertion. ELLIOT. A Missionary Settlement, in the Upper Towns dren, to twenty-four. In consequence of the low state of the Ohio and Mississippi, they did not reach the Walnut Hills till the end of January. From this place, Mr. Cushman and Mr. Hooper proceeded to Mayhew, where they arrived on the 9th of March. Mr. Smith set forward, with his family, up the Yazoo: Mr. Dyer had come down from Elliot, and accompanied him : they were six weeks in working up the stream: Mr. Smith had buried his youngest Son since he left his home; and, in this passage, he had to bury his eldest Son, a fine Youth, who had laboured with him at the oar: he himself fell overboard, and, |