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him in dancing, and in their medicine worship; but
the old man had too much religion in him to gratify
them. As soon as they discovered that they could not
prevail upon the old man, they sent word to all, that
they could excel us in worshiping the Great Spirit; and
that they intended to hold their regular spring Grand
Medicine Worship. Every night we held meetings.
They commenced with their paw-wa/23 (singing,) and
beating of the drums on the other side of the bay, and
continued it for a whole week. VVe kept up our usual
meetings ; and at the end of the week, their drumming,
singing, and dancing ceased. VVe continued our meet-
ings for two months. The Chief of this place, was yet
unconverted.

During this spring, Brother Clark, our Superintendent,
arrived from Sault St. Marie,with Brother William Her-
kimer and family, and my cousin Johnson. These were
to take our places in the mission. ‘We had now an
excellent quarterly meeting. Brother Clark preached a
sensible and warm sermon; my cousin interpreted it.
It was a blessed time; over twenty were baptized before
the services began. There was a circumstance which
rendered the occasion peculiarly interesting; an old In-
dian woman of about eighty years, came crawling to
the meeting, for she was unable to walk; her name was
Anna. The year before, she had travelled three hun-
dred and fifty miles in a canoe, to be baptized by Bro»
ther Clark. She now lived about two miles from 011:
mission, and on the Sabbath, was brought to meeting
in a canoe. But on this Sabbath, the wind was so higlr

that no canoe could be launched. In the morning,
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