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Monday, June 25.-No news of Mr. Revoir.

Tuesday, June 26-Another man arrived who was unable to come down on the Sabbath, and had secreted himself. About noon this day he found the body of Mr. Revoir, murdered. He was an innocent victim, and fell a prey to the jealousy of the enemy. The family intend soon to leave this country for Missouri. They have requested us to milk their cows, amounting to ten, until they should be disposed of. For our kindness in giving them a temporary residence, they have presented us with fifty fowls and two young elks. Such is the effect of Indian warfare. The innocent and the guilty fall indiscriminately before the revengeful hand of relentless murderers. Nothing could have been more unjust or cruel, for Mr. Revoir had no interest in the war; and, probably, when he met his murderers, he bailed them as friends, not knowing that they had marched two hundred miles on purpose to take his life.

Mr. Vaill's Return. Wednesday, July 10.-Brother Vaill returned after an absence of nearly six weeks. He had a pleasant voyage down the river, and reached the post in twelve days. Was enabled to draw upon the Board for one thousand dollars in money, and to pay by draft the freight due on the flour, &c. to the amount of $427, and to make such arrangements for the payment of our expenses as to prevent a longer journey. The Mission begins to be known, and its credit is established, so that drafts are ready payment. Still it is necessary to have on hand more or less ready money to discharge our labourers, who cannot be accommodated by drafts.

Another supply of Provisions on the

way.

Thursday, July 12.-Capt. Douglass, with our supplies from Cincinnati, has reached the trading house. The water

in Grand River is rapidly rising, and he

finds it impossible to ascend at present. By this unexpected rise, our new canoe has been swept away. Two men arrived to-day from the settlement below to work at sawing.

Friday, July 13.-Some of the brethren have gone to the trading house to pack up bacon, and to procure potatoes for planting. We have had little meat since our arrival at this place, excepting what the wilderness has furnished; and supplies will be seasonable, since game is an uncertain means of sustenance.

Saturday, July 14.-The river still rising. Heavy rains have fallen on its branches above, and it scarcely ever has been known to rise higher than at this time.

Lord's Day, July 15.-The brethren who went for provision returned. They considered that our need of supplies, and the unpleasantness of remaining at the trading house, rendered it suitable for them to come on the Sabbath. The water still rising, and the rains continue still to pour down in torrents.

Monday, July 16.-This morning missed our boat. We had used the utmost caution to secure it; had watched the motions of the water, and having strongly fastened it to the trees in the best place we could find, we considered it safe till we found it gone. We immediately sent two men down the river, hoping still to save it.

Thursday, July 19.-The men who went in search of the boat returned this evening, without having seen it. They went to the mouth of this river, where they met the boat with supplies, still waiting for the water to fall.

Arrival of the expected Supplies. Saturday, July 21.-Captain Douglass's boat arrived this evening. He saw our boat about fifteen miles down this river. It lies at the head of an island, bottom upwards, with the cargo box torn off, and partly covered with drift wood.

Lord's Day, July 22.-Our audience has been increased by the attendance

of Captain Douglass's boatmen. Usually but one has attended, besides our own family and labourers. One of our hands and one or two of the family have been unwell for a few days.

Monday, July 23.-A year has elapsed since we stopped at Little Rock. How healthy this summer, compared with the last! What weakness and pains and sorrow then! Now we have afflictions, but of a different nature. God is pleased to vary the means of correction, that we may not be left to doubt his word. Received by the boat which arrived Saturday evening, beside flour and biscuit, twenty barrels of pork and bacon, a quantity of beans, vinegar, shoes, mill irons, &c. according to the bill of lading from Cincinnati. Capt. Douglass having brought several boatmen from Cincinnati, whom he recommended to us, resolved to engage four. These men can be hired for fifteen dollars per month. We hope soon to hire all for that sum, instead of twenty dollars, the price in this country.

Expedition for exploring a Coal Mine. Having heard that there is a bed of stone coal on the Arkansas, near the mouth of this river, Resolved, That Capt. Douglass be employed to bring us a load, if it can be obtained; and that brother Woodruff go down to assist him.

Tuesday, July 24.-Have secured our fresh supplies in our new store house, and settled the bill for freight. It is a happy circumstance, that we have a convenient landing place formed by which we nature. In our wagon, brought from Pittsburgh, we can take twelve barrels at a load. Not having discovered this place when we unloaded our boats last spring, we had to convey the goods up the steep bank by hand. This evening, Resolved, to erect another building of logs for a lodging room for the hired men.

Wednesday, July 25.-Brother Palmer is again attacked with the intermittent.

Thursday, July 26.-Brother Woodruff, with the men whom we have hired,

sons.

Monday, July 30.-Another hired man taken sick. Agreed to send down a number of men with Mr. Ransom and one of the Brethren, to get off the boat. They found the place where it lay so hot and impure, that they could not work without greatly endangering their health. They also concluded it would take many days to get it into the water. We think they did right in leaving it.

Thursday, August 2.-Brother Wm. C. Requa taken with the fever. He was the brother who went down for the boat. He returned yesterday morning almost overcome with fatigue. We hardly know in many instances when duty calls. Our anxiety to save the boat has perhaps led us to expose the health of those who went, but this we could not foresee. May God direct all our steps and comfort us under all our trials. Brother Woodruff more comfortable this morning. Brother Palmer so far recovered that he is able to attend to the sick, for which we would magnify divine kindness. Three Osages appeared to-day. They said they had just returned from their hunt.

They had been to Revoir's place, and found that they were all gone. They feared that we were gone too, and came

to see.

Saturday, August 4.-The weather excessively hot. The Thermometer has risen several days past to 96 and 97 degrees. The sun beats down with burning rays. The health of the family is so far affected that we are able to accomplish but little. Brethren Requa and Woodruff are very low, yet we hope not dangerous. To-day Colonel Glenn passed here with a hunting party from Missouri. He told us that the other Mission Family to the Osages had probably reached their station by this time, as they were about half way up the Osage river on the 12th of July. He also stated, to our great joy, that an Agent from the Government of the United States is passing through the tribes in Missouri, to dissuade them from becoming allies to either party in this war. direct tendency to stop the war. Lord's Day, August 5.-Brother Redfield taken down with the fever.

Such a measure will have a

Monday, August 6.-Our two sawyers left us to-day, in consequence of the heat and sickness. Brother Requa niore unwell. The bilious intermittent is the fever which now afflicts us.

Tuesday, August 7.-Another hand has relinquished business for a few days. The heat is still excessive.

Wednesday, August 8.-From the information of Col. Glenn, we conclude that the Great Osage Mission Family have reached their station. Considering it desirable that we form an early acquaintance, and have a mutual understanding, in measures that regard the interest of both Missions, Resolved, That Brother Chapman proceed to the Great Osage Mission Station, to confer, among other things, about the propriety of uniting with them in hiring a good Interpreter for the purpose of studying the language.

Thursday, August 9.-Brother Vaill went out with the mill wright to look

for a mill seat. They proceeded to a creek eight miles distant up the river on this side, a place which has been viewed before. But finding the water too low, we think it not best to commence there, till we have had further proof of the stream. The distance is not very objectionable, seeing timber may be found above on Grand River. Grain may be raised near the mill, and a good road made with little expense.

Friday, August 10.-Finished the lodging room for the hands. Have cut and stacked twenty tons of hay within three weeks past. This hay is as good as the second quality in old countries; and the prairies where we collected it, within half a mile of our dwelling, yielded from one and a half to two tons to the acre.

Saturday, August 11.-Agreed to build a school house, 18 feet by 20. Received letters from Connecticut and the state of New-York, announcing the precious work of grace which is going on in those places.

Lord's Day, August 12.—At a prayer meeting in the interval of worship, read so much of our letters as respected the revivals. The Brethren and Sisters feel animated in view of what they have heard. Brother Vaill has peculiar cause for praising Sovereign Grace in view of the hopeful conversion of many youths of his late charge in North Guilford.

Departure of Mr. Chapman and Mr.
Fuller for Harmony.

Monday, August 13.-Brothers Chapman and Fuller, after uniting in prayer, set out on their tour to visit Harmony. It was thought best that one of the brethren should accompany brother Chapman, and it fell to brother Fuller, as having the best health to endure the journey. They go by the way of Clamore's village.

Tuesday, August 14-Excessively hot. Business generally relinquished for the present, to favour the health of the family and of the hired men.

Lord's Day, August 19.-Brother Requa again able to attend worship. Health of the family generally better, yet several feeble. A sweeter sabbath than usual. May God pour out upon us the spirit of grace and supplication, that under every seeming discouragement we may pray and not faint.

Tuesday, August 21.-Resolved to build a coal house. Heat still oppressive. Thermometer at 102 degrees. Today received the Missionary Register to the 11th number inclusive. How thankful do we feel, that these numbers have all safely arrived. Received also the third and fourth Reports of the Society. These publications furnish a rich feast, We hope they will serve more deeply to impress our minds with a sense of our responsibility.

Preparations for receiving Indian

Children into the family.

Friday, August 24.-Brother Redfield having recovered his health, set out for the village this morning. Having heard that some are wishing to send their children to us, we sent them word that we are prepared to take them. Our scruples about taking children if they should be offered, are subsiding, as the probability of our being visited at any time by hostile Indians with evil intentions continually diminishes. Our desires to be able to teach these poor children of nature the way to heaven are great beyond expression.

Saturday, August 25.-Brother Redfield brought word that four or five children would be sent immediately.

Lord's Day, August 26.-Evidently God is enlarging our hearts to pray for the heathen. Encouraging to the believer is the promise of God to his Son, "I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance." As God moves in a mysterious way, his purposes to fulfil, we will not despond even when he seems to frown. We have waited long, but others have waited longer, whose success has in the event been glorious. Jan. 1822.

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Arrival of Indian Children.

Monday, August 27.-Four children were brought this morning. They are half breeds and three of them belong to a Frenchman who serves as an interpreter in the village. We gladly received them; took off their tattered, dirty garments, and dressed them with some of the new and clean clothes, These which we had in readiness. children are between the ages of four and twelve.

Tuesday, August 28.-Resolved to build a kitchen of logs, twenty four feet square. Since our arrival in this place, we have cooked under a shed and eaten till lately under a tent. The sisters have found this exceedingly inconvenient; and we hope to be accommodated by this building with a cooking room, and dining hall, till we can finish our frame building.

Friday, August 31.-A poor Osage woman, of about thirty years of age, having presented herself and requested to be admitted into the family, we agreed to receive her on trial, hoping she may be able to help the sisters in their labours. We have not been able to obtain female assistance. The sisters are wearing down for the want of help. Probably none have the strength they enjoyed before their late sickness. This woman is not such as we need, but we do not like to turn her away. She is considered by the Osages a worthless woman, and she does not promise well as to making improvements at this age.

Saturday, September 1.-Two of the brethren are yet feeble. A young man who has been here a few days, on his way to Missouri, is quite sick. As he is a stranger, we feel in duty bound to help him. He hopes to pay us by his labour when he regains his health. Moved into our new school house this week. Brother Spaulding has the charge of the school when able; but he is visited with frequent attacks of the intermittent.

Mr. Wm. C. Requa to his Father,

September 29, 1821.

In this letter, Mr. Requa, after mentioning the sickness of other Members of the Family, thus proceeds :

I was severely attacked with the bilious remittent fever about the first of August, which was attended with violent pains in my head and other parts of the system. I was confined to my bed and very helpless for three weeks. Since that time I have been convalescent, and at present, I am able to teach school.

Our School is still small, having only three Indian children, and Brother Vaill's four-seven in all. We expect about Christmas a considerable number of the Indian children; and as soon as the war terminates, we shall probably have as many as we can attend to.

There is now a strong probability that the war will soon be brought to a close. The Government, we understand, has prohibited the allies of each party from engaging in the contest. This circumstance appears to be inclining both parties to a reconciliation. Major Bradford, commanding Officer at Fort Smith, has lately been among the Osages. The result of his visit, I have not heard; but, from existing circumstances, I am led to believe, that we shall soon hear of the restoration of peace. Our hearts would rejoice at such an event; for, in that case, we believe our usefulness to the Osage Tribe would be greatly increased.

GREAT OSAGE MISSION.

above its junction with the Osage. This place was granted to us by the Indians in Council on the 13th of August.

Our limits embrace excellent timber in abundance; first rate prairies for ploughing, pasturing, and mowing; the only mill-seat known in this vast country; stone coal on the surface of the ground and within a few rods of our buildings; and a large ridge of lime stone sufficiently near for our convenience. Our river bottoms are rather low for cultivation without draining; but our prairies are high, and inclining towards the creeks, which receive and carry off the surplus water. The soil of our prairies is a dark, rich loom, about two feet thick, beneath which, we have clear clay as deep as we have yet penetrated. We shall depend on wells for water for family use.

Soon after our arrival at this place, brother Bright and myself were appointed to go to the settlements on the Missouri, about a hundred miles distant by land, to purchase horses, oxen, and cows. In travelling to the Missouri, our accommodations were scanty, having to carry our provisions and blankets upon our backs. It is accounted detrimental to health, to traverse these prairies in that season of the year, on account of the exposure by day, to the scorching rays of the sun, and by night, to the chilling dampness of the atmosphere. The grass of the prairies varies from two to seven feet in height, and forms an average impediment to travelling equal to that of snow from eight to ten inches in depth. Through this journey we enjoyed excellent health, notwith

Philadelphia.

Harmony, Missouri, Sept. 27, 1821. DEAR SIR,

After journeying for several months, I am, by the blessing of a kind Providence, now resting at Harmony, the Station occupied by our Mission family. We are located on the margin of the Maredicine river, about four miles

drenchings from nightly showers.

We succeeded in purchasing two horses, four oxen, and seven cows with their calves. For a pair of heavy wellmade plough horses, we paid one hundred and twenty-one dollars; for a yoke of heavy well-broken oxen, fifty dollars; for a pair of large steers, trained to the yoke, thirty dollars; and for each cow