BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the ninth day of September, A. D. 1830, in the fifty fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, CHRISTOPHER C. DEAN, of the said District, has deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, viz. "Conversations on the Choctaw Mission. By the author of Conversations on the Bombay Mission. Revised by the Publishing Committee." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an Act entitled "An Act supplementary to an Act entitled An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. { Description of the country around Mayhew-Examination of the school at Elliot-Death of Mrs. Williams-Death of John Long, a Choctaw lad-A wandering band settle near Pigeon Roost-Death of Mrs. Kingsbury-Laws The national council encourage small schools-arrival of ad- ditional missionaries-Death of Rev. Samuel Mosely- Books printed in the Choctaw language-New chiefs chosen-Death of Mrs. D. Wright-Notions of the Choc- taws about God-Rain-makers-Fair-weather-makers- Letter of Capt. Robert Folsom-Notices of Choctaw boys and girls-two sisters-Mary Reed-Hannah Bradshaw-Rosa CONVERSATIONS ON THE CHOCTAW MISSION. CHAPTER V. MISS McEllroy led in conversation the next time the Sabbath School Missionary Society convened, and almost the first question proposed to her, after she entered the hall, was from Emma, who said, Miss McEllroy, can you tell us how it looks at Mayhew? Katharine. I have never been there, my dear; but those who have, repeat these words of Dr. Worcester, when he first arrived there. This is the loveliest spot my eyes ever saw." Mr. Goodell, now a missionary in Palestine, visited that "lovely spot" in April, 1822, and while there wrote to a friend as follows:-" As you approach it from the east, there opens unexpectedly to view an extensive prairie, which contains several thousand acres, and which ap pears to be without a single stone, or tree, or fence, except now and then a small cluster of trees at great distances, like the little isles of the sea; and except also the railing, which en-. closes the fields of Mayhew. These fields are on the north side of the prairie, and distinctly in front of the mission houses. "Casting your eye over the prairie, you discover here and there, herds of cattle, and horses, and wild deer, all grazing and happy. The grass, which will soon be eight feet high, is now (the 30th of April) about eight inches, and has all the freshness of spring. The prairie has very gentle elevations and depressions, which contain each from one hundred to one thousand acres, and which, from a distance, resemble the undulating motion of the Atlantic, a few leagues from land, after a storm. A hundred horses and chariots could go abreast in any direction, and with almost any speed. As you proceed, Mayhew often almost wholly disappears; again it rises to view in still greater loveliness, half enclosed with the oak, which, with the sycamore and mulberry, borders the prairie on all sides. Flowers of red, purple, yellow, and indeed of every hue, are scattered by a bountiful God, in |