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the Witches they had amongst them; had already began to issue orders for the execution of some Individuals at a distance*; he generally directed his shaft at [crossed out: such of whom he had heard that they] those who were reported as placing no faith in his doctrine; or considered him as a destroyer of Indians & also at those whom he knew to be friends of the White People. However he did not succeed in all his schemes and undertakings; for one day, when in the heighth of the exercise of his assumed Power, he meet with a spirited inferior Chief, who defied him, & boldly stepping up to him in a Language or expression he could not misunderstand; asked him if he dared to accuse him of Witchcraft; he immediately became sensible, that limits were set to his powers and proceedings. On receiving this rebuke he with great artifice resumed the subject he began with, when he first entering on preaching, namely: by drawing a comparison, between the state of the Indians previous to the White Peoples coming amongst them; and since these had mingled with them; exhorting the Indians, to abide by their mode of worshiping the great Spirit; and not adopt that of the White People

  The Missionaries, having no prospect of success by continuing to preach the Gospel to a People, who either did not want to hear, or despised it; broke up the Settlement in 1806, and returned to Bethlehem.

  In the Autumn of the Year 1803. the Bishop George Henry Loskiel, late from Europe, and last 

• see Heckewelders Account of Ind. Nations Chap. XXXIX.

[Crossed out: Memorandum: by a mistake the following lines to be inserted into my Manuscript Narrative had been omitted, which please insert on the margin, so that they come in the proper place. viz at the end of that Paragraph which begins with the words: "In the fall of the Year 1803 the Bishop George Henry Loskiel &c" insert or add these lines: ] "Other two Directors of the Society Charles van Forrestier from Europe, and John G. Cunow from Bethlehem, visited in the Year 1807. the brethren Missionary Settlements both in the State of Ohio, and in Upper Canada". [crossed out: (NB the paragraph alluded to is within pages of the end of the Narrative.)]