reported that the people were very | The number of communicants nished bungalow intended for a temporary hospital. Sir E. Barnes baving unexpectedly arrived, he was waited upon by Mr. N., who was informed that he might build upon any place he deemed eligible; and a piece of ground about 600 feet in circumference was therefore allotted for that purpose. "Here is," said Mr. N." a garrison of 200 soldiers, many offiThe returns of the schools at cers and European children; houses Christmas, were boys 22, girls 34. are building, and streets forming, KONDAIA, a settlement in the every day; a rest-house is also to Susoo country, W. Africa, about be immediately built, and new 40 m. up the Rio Pongas from barracks; hence it is easy to see Freeport. The Rev. Messrs. the station is one of growing imBrunton and Greig, from the portance. Schools have been Episcopal M. S. commenced a mis- opened, and we have gained adsion here in 1798, and laboured mission on a very friendly footing under many discouragements and to two Budhist temples in the interruptions, till 1800; when a neighbourhood. The most intecompany of Foulabs murdered Mr. resting fact, however, is, that a Greig, and the mission was relin-small company have begun to learn quished, though favourable prospects of usefulnesswere beginning to open. KONIGSBERG, a city and capital of Prussia, 4 m. from the mouth of the Pregel. E. long. 20o 30, N. lat. 54° 40′, Population 55,000, of whom 8000 are Jews. A university was founded here in 1544, which has 18 professors and about 300 students. A wide field of useful exertion has been opened here among the Jews, upon which much successful missionary labour has been bestowed. the English language in the house of a Budhist priest, contiguous to his temple; himself being one of the scholars, and at his own request! The temple-school arose from a conversation with the priest, who solicited instruction; I, of course, assented, and proposed a small school at his house, which our teacher should visit every day. In the afternoon of the same day, I had the priest's house ornamented with large English alphabets, spelling and reading lessons, &c., and several young Kandian students were seated on their mats round our schoolmaster, who continues to visit them every day. KORNEGALLE, the chief town in the Seven Korles, or districts, of the Kandian territory, about 25 m. N. W. of Kandy, and "There will be an European con60 N. E. of Colombo. Early in gregation every Sabbath, of at 1821, the Rev. Mr. Newstead, of least 200 persons, and the natives the W. M. S., was enabled, by are not at all indisposed to assempermission of the Lieutenant-go-ble; having already come together, vernor, and by the friendly offices both priests and people, in consiof Henry Wright, Esq. the Resi- derable numbers, to hear the dent, to commence here a mis- preaching. sionary establishment. "The 31st of December, 1821," On the first Sabbath day after his says Mr. N." was the day approarrival, he preached in an unfi-priated to the purpose of dedicating holy religion has been induced among the natives. Although much ground may not have been gained during the year; yet it is satisfac tory to know that none has been lost, but that some progress is per ceptible." [See Kandy.] to God the first house erected to | In 1823, Mr. N. reports: "The KURREECHANE, the princi pal town of the Marootze tribe of Bootchuanas, S. Africa, upwards of 1000 m. N. E. Cape Town, in. about 24° S. lat. and not far from the eastern coast. The population, in 1820, was estimated at 16,000. The Bootchuanas are jet black, a very athletic, warlike race, free in ge neral from every species of defor mity. Their manners are peculiar, and the grossest superstition is interwoven in all their customs; they are very thievish, but hold the crime of adultery in the utmost abhor rence. Their language possesses no regular form, but is filled with all the unsoftened barbarity of savage sounds. It is not uncommon to find from 2 to 10 or 12,000 living in a compact body, and scarcely any thing will induce them to remove. Each tribe has its laws, govern ment, and king, who is invariably hereditary. They have advanced in the arts of civilization beyond their neighbours, and are passionately fond of hunting. The men hunt, build, and take care of the inclosures for their cattle, and prepare their wearing apparel, which consists chiefly of skins sewed together with the sinews of goats, sheep, and oxen. The females build the house, make its hedge, dig the garden, and sow the land, which they appear to per form with the utmost cheerfulness. Sorcery and witchcraft universally prevail; and their faith is firm in almost any thing fictitious, espe cially when affirmed by their ma gicians. The majority carry pieces of stone, horn, or roots, suspended from their necks, which they use for magical purposes, according to the direction of their sorcerers.... In 1826, it is said, "The prospects of usefulness in the Seven Korles are as encouraging as can be expected in a country professedly heathen, considering the confined means possessed of communicating religious instruction during the past year. The few members of society we have in that district being school-masters, are necessarily separated much from each other, and seldom are able to meet in class; but it is hoped that by their Christian conduct and conversation, a willingness to consider the truths of our colde home point 雄 In 1820, the Rev. Messrs. Camp-| bell and Moffat, of the L. M. S., visited this and other places in TON the vicinity, to prepare for the establishment of a mission, which was favoured by the chief men of the nation; but little was done, except by way of preparation, before the town was destroyed by a company of about 40,000 Mantatees, who passed through the country on a plundering expedition, in June, 1823, and dispersed the Marootze tribe. This disastrous event deranged the Society's plans; but it is confidently believed it will eventually turn to the furtherance of the Gospel in these parts. L. LABRADOR, an extensive country in N. America, situated on the N. E. part of New Britain: bounded W. by Hudson's Bay; N. by Hudson's Straits; E. by Davis's Straits, the Atlantic, and the Straits 19 of Belisle; and S. by the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and L. Canada. Between 55 and 79o W. long. and 50 and 63° N. lat. The face of the country is rough and mountainous, the soil poor, and the natural productions those of the coarsest plants, adapted to the subsistence of deer and goats. The whole of the E. coast exhibits a very barren appearance; the inland territory is more fertile, and trees are more numerous. The climate, though severe, is salubrious. There is little appearance of summer till about the middle of July, and in September, winter indicates its ap proach; this season is longer, and more intensely cold than that of Greenland. Immense quantities of ice render the sea-coast much colder than the interior. The thermometer, from December to April, is generally 70° below freezingpoints and shoals of ice, from the N., frequently set in in spring and summer. The inhabitants of this country are two distinct tribes of Indians-Mountaineers and Esquimaux, between whom there subsists an invincible aversion. The Moun taineers inhabit the interior of the country towards the N., and are a small, hardy race of people, well adapted to the rocky country which they are continually traversing. The Esquimaux are inferior to Europeans, and flat visaged; their hair is black and very coarse, and their hands and feet are remarkably small: their dress is made entirely of skins: their food consists chiefly of seals, deer, fish, and birds. The men are extremely indolent, the women are mere drudges. Constant dread of the Mountaineers induces them to live near the shore. In summer the natives occupy tents, made circular with poles, and covered with skins; and in winter they live in caverns and snowhouses. Before the arrival of missionaries, the Esquimaux believed in the existence of an invisible Being, influencing both the good and the bad, which they called the Torugak. Sorcery and witchcraft were universally practised; and stealing, perfidy, and murder, were common crimes. Their number. has not been accurately ascertained; it has been estimated at about 1,600. The exports are fish, whalebone, and furs; the latter of which are of superior quality. The first idea of sending out missionaries to the Esquimaux appears to have originated in a conjecture that a national affinity subsisted between those people and the Greenlanders; and though the excellent and devoted Matthew Stach did not succeed in his application to the Hudson's Bay Company for permission to attempt the evangelization of the Indians belonging to their factories, a ship was fitted out in 1752, by some of the U. B. and several other mer- | piece of ground which they intend chants, for the purpose of trading ed to occupy as a missionary sta on the coast of Labrador. Four tion. They then returned to Enmissionaries sailed from London gland, to make further preparations on the 17th of May, taking with for the accomplishment of their them the frame and materials of a benevolent design. house, a boat, various kinds of seeds, and different implements of agriculture; and, on their arrival in a fine bay, they went on shore, and fixed on a spot for their future residence, to which they gave the name of Hopedale ; but some pain ful circumstances occurring, the mission was for a time abandoned. Jens Haven, however, sailed for Labrador in May, 1765, accompanied by C. L. Drachart, formerly one of the Danish missionaries in Greenland, and 2 other brethren. On this occasion they penetrated farther into the interior of the country; and on their return to the coast, they had an opportunity of addressing several hundreds of the natives, who seemed to listen to them with profound attention; but on several other occasions they either evinced a total indifference to the truths which were sounded in their ears, or spoke in a way which demonstrated the hardness of their hearts, and the blindness of their understandings. The interest excited by an attempt to introduce the cheering light of revelation among the wretched and benighted Esquímaux was very great, and several members of the Moravian church, both male and female, avowed their willingness to abandon all the comforts of civilized society, and to expose themselves to every species of inconvenience and privation, for the furtherance of so important an object. Accordingly, in the spring of 1771, a company of 14 persons, comprising 3 married couples, widower, and seven single brethren, sailed for Labrador; and after a tedious and hazardous voyage, ar rived on the 9th of August at their place of destination. The day after their arrival, they took pos session of the spot which had been purchased in the preceding summer, and gave it the appellation of Nain. They also immediately commenced the erection of a mission-house, the frame and materials of which they had brought from England; but great exertions were required to complete it before the com mencement of winter, which, in these northern regions, tensely cold, that rum, placed in the open air, freezes like water, and rectified spirits in a short time become as thick as oil. A tract of land in Esquimaux Bay was afterwards granted, by an order of council, for the establishment of a mission; and a brig of about 120 tons burthen was purchased, with the design of annually visiting Labrador, and trading with the natives. In the month of May, 1770, Messrs. Haven, Drachart, and Jensen, sailed from England, in order to explore the coast, and to fix on a convenient situation for a settlement. On their arrival they availed themselves of the first opportunity of preaching; and, notwithstanding the grant which they had previously obtained, they deemed it advisable to purchase from the savages the so in In this situation the brethren could obtain but few of the neces saries of life; and as a considerable delay occurred in the forwarding of supplies from England in the ensuing year, their provisions were almost entirely exhausted; but, happily, deliverance appeared. The conduct of the Esquimaux had been uniformly friendly towards them from their first arrival; and as did the brethren acted, upon all occasions, in the most open and ingeennuous manner, entire confidence de was soon established between them. In former times, no European could have passed a night ert among these savages, then chales racterized as thieves and murderers, without the most imminent danbent ger; but now the missionaries, regardless of the inclemency of Mo the season, travelled across the alice and snow to visit them in their winter houses, and were hospitably entertained for several days and nights successively. These visits were afterwards returned; and in consequence of the friendly intercourse thus, opened, the natives not only asked the advice of the brethren in all difficult cases, but even chose them as umpires in their disputes, and invariably submitted to their arbitration. They also listened with silence and attention to the preaching of the Gospel; and, in a few instances, the hope was entertained that impressions were made which might, at a subsequent period, be productive of some fruit to the honour of the Redeemer. Generally speaking, however, they were too little acquainted with their own guilt and wretchedness to discover the ne cessity of salvation, or the suitability and preciousness of that Saviour who was represented to them as the only refuge from the wrath to come. Though devoted to the gratification of the most brutal passions, and habitually committing the grossest sins with delight, they were never destitute of excuses and causes of self-gratulation. The angekoks, or sorcerers, also, as might naturally be expected, employed all their arts to prevent their countrymen from receiving the Gospel. was at length induced to attend the preaching of the brethren and, after hearing them repeatedly, he pitched his tent in their settlement in 1772, and remained there till the month of November, when he removed to his winter house. Even then his anxiety for further instruction in the things of God: was so great, that he actually returned on foot, for the purpose of spending a few days more with the heralds of the cross; though the Esquimaux were never accustomed to travel in that manner; as in summer they pass from one place to another in their kajaks, and in winter they perform their journeys in sledges. From the time of his second departure, the missionaries heard nothing of him till February, 1773, when his wife came to Nain, and stated that he had died, calling on the name of the Lord Jesus. Though no Christian friend was present to direct or influence him, he would not permit one of the angekoks, who are considered as the physicians of the Esquimaux, to come near him; but committed himself unreservedly into the hands of that great Physician who descended from heaven to bind up the broken hearted, and with whom he was enabled to hold sweet communion even when heart and flesh were failing. After his demise, this person was invariably spoken of by the natives as "the man whom the Saviour took to himself." The brethren now resolved to. select from among their hearers such as appeared the most seriously inclined, and to form them into a class of catechumens, in order to prepare them, by suitable instructions, for the holy rite of baptism. At the same time they determined to erect a church capable of conA man named Anauke, how-taining some hundreds of persons, ever, who had been formerly a as the apartment in the missionferocious and desperate character, house, which had been hitherto |