This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: .before, that we were all bingeyes, (brothers, ) and that I should always take care of them while they remained good fellows, and belonged to me. The result of all my experiments thus far with the natives, proved to me that more might be done with them by judicious management than was generally believed; although, situated as I was, I saw numerous insurmountable obstacles to carrying their improvement beyond a certain point. The increase of society, and the spread of the branch establishments of the Company, necessarily occasioned a more promiscuous communication between the white people and the natives than was useful to the latter; and as no beneficial system for their amelioration could be carried to any extent, unless they were removed to a distance from vicious society, and placed under the eye of a zealous, humane person, employed for that purpose only, every day's experience convinced me that the character of the natives would retrograde in proportion to the increase of European population, which at that place could not be of the best description.

In order to show how far they might be managed in the absence of counteracting circumstances, I will here relate two very singular, and I think instructive instances, of the effect produced upon their minds by the conduct I had adopted towards them. Shortly after my return from the journey I have just narrated, a native, who called himself Youee, informed me that his wife had been taken from him by a native who resided at the Coal River. He always appeared uneasy when he mentioned her, and wished to have her restored, but was afraid to attempt a rescue at such a distance from home. One day, as I was in the garden, I saw a native running towards me down the hill, at the foot of which was the garden fence; and .