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of the Rev? clergy to see & converse with me. By enjoying the company of those pious & enlightened gentlemen, it had tendency to strengthen & confirm my faith in the gospel and to enlarge my views on theology, as well as to kindle a missionary spirit in me, and which it did not cease to burn, from that period tho I was placed afterwards in situations directly opposite to its spirit, 'till, I found my self in the midst of the tawny & hardy sons of the forest -

 No doubt, Madam, many of those gentlemen, their compassion, were excited at the ignorance of the Iroquois youth, and were diverted? at his simplicity. However,their appearance & deportment, was so dignified, and at the same time with luck, humility & politeness, I took