christians or attending the schools, but to leave all to act and think for themselves. Before the council broke up, Brother John Sunday also addressed them and gave the heathen Indians a short account of his conversion to Christianity.
Friday 13th. — This morning one of the Chippeway Chiefs who was among the number of those who danced, took early in the morning his medicine bag containing the ornaments he wore yesterday, and two balls of wood to denote the number of enemies he had killed, and said to the christian Indian to whom he gave it — “Go, Brother, and take it to the ministers, that they may see that I have done with these things. Tell them I mean now to become a christian and worship their God.” In the morning the Indians from the west assembled at the King's store-house to receive their presents, to the number of about 650. Each person got about eight or ten dollars worth. Some of these Indians have come about a thousand miles! What a waste of time for eight or ten dollars in half a year! In the evening Brother Sunday and myself examined and took down the names of those to be baptized, who were converted through the labours of Brother Sunday and his companions, during his tour last year to St. Marie.
Saturday 14th. — Began after breakfast to finish the taking down the names of those to be baptized, and at 10 o'clock I gave them a discourse on the subject of baptism; many of the pagan Indians were present. Brother John Sunday also exhorted, and then proceeded to put the usual questions to them, to which they responded very heartily, and after this they knelt down on the ground and were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, and some were deeply affected and trembled. After this I had a conversation with the Chief who gave up his medicine bag the other day, whose name I ascertained to be Moozoomoonee. He told me that there were a great many Indians in the country from whence he came, who he thought
