ON THE CHICKASAW AND OSAGE MISSIONS. BY THE AUTHOR OF CONVERSATIONS ON THE SANDWICH ISLAND, BOMBAY AND CEYLON MISSIONE, NAVAL CHAPLAIN, &c. by S Tuttle REVISED BY THE PUBLISHING COMMITTEE. SECOND EDITION. BOSTON: MASSACHUSETTS SABBATH SCHOOL SOCIETY. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the third day of March, A. D. 1831, 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. Letters on the Chickasaw and Osage Missions. By the Author of Conversations on the Sandwich Island, Bombay and Ceylon Missions, Naval Chaplain, &c. 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 DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. PREFACE My dear young Friends, I have written another book for you, giving an ac count of MISSIONS TO THE CHICKASAW AND OSAGE INDIANS; hoping and believing that the more you learn of the state of the heathen, especially in our own beloved country, the more anxious you will feel to send them the gospel and the means of civilization; which, with the blessing of God, will turn them from their idolatry and wanderings into paths of purity and peace on earth, and fit them for the felicity and glory of heaven. When you have read these letters, I hope to send you a history of other missions which have been established among the tribes around the great lakes, sometimes called the northwestern Indians. I trust we have experienced, that "it is more blessed to give than to receive." That we may continue to realize more and more of this blessedness, is the fervent prayer of your sincere friend, THE AUTHOR. 1* |