ON THE CHOCTAW MISSION. BY THE AUTHOR OF Conversations on the Bombay Mission, REVISED BY THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION. Second Edition. BOSTON: MASSACHUSETTS SABBATH SCHOOL SOCIETY. Depository, No. 24, Cornhill. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 707965 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS R L DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS.....TO WIT: District Clerk's Office. 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." Massachusetts. Clerk of the District JNO. W. DAVIS, PREFACE. My young friends, hearing that you like to read the books containing an account of the American mission to the East Indies, and the Sandwich Islands, I have prepared a book for you, which will make you acquainted with the condition of the Choctaw nation; and I hope when you have read it through, and see how much good our missionaries have done, and how much more they would do, if they had money enough to support more schoolmasters and missionaries, you will form a missionary society in your Sabbath school or Bible class immediately. If you meet occasionally to work, for the sake of earning money to increase your funds, I suppose you will appoint one of your number to read aloud while the rest work. If you do so, after you have read the missionary books already printed, if my health continues I will send you some letters giving an account of the various tribes of Indians in this country, among whom missionaries have been established by different societies. SEPT. 22, 1830. 1* CONTENTS. Journey of Mr. Kingsbury and Mr. Williams from Brain- erd to the Choctaw Nation-They commence the station called Elliot-Arrival of other Missionaries -Description of the buildings, &c.-Sickness in the Notions respecting witches and conjurors-Preaching of Mr. Kingsbury-Council respecting schools-Death of Mr. A. V. Williams-Description of the school and scholars-Anxiety of a girl to enter the school -Extent and climate of the Choctaw country-Visit of Messrs. Finney and Washburn to Elliot-Mr. Choctaw annuities-Districts in the Choctaw country- Visit of two Choctaw kings to Elliot-Visit of Mr. Arrival of other missionaries-Their sufferings on the way-Passage up the Yazoo river-Visit of Dr. Worcester to the Choctaw Nation-His letter to the Missionaries-Mr. Williams goes to form a new |