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No. 10 the Missionaries would not grow tired for Indian children not fast to learn and sometimes no ear to hear good words, sometimes no eye to see the good it will be to him to learn to talk, read, write and work like white man; they were very glad we learned them to work, as well as read for these Indian children learned to live as well as think; many said my visit had reminded them of many years past, when Friends labored among them, and wished I would talk with the Friends of New York an Philadelphia, to see if they could not help them in establishing a manual labor boarding school, for it was just what they needed, and these Indian would progress faster in the path of civilization, and with tears in their eyes, expressed a hope that they should hear from me again. The Senecas seemed quite disposed to adopt the form of government recom- mended by the State Legislature, and I was glad to find a number of educated men among them capable of carrying out the laws and regulations for the general good of the nation. On each reservation I found some industrious and enterprising men, who had houses and lands to rent, and had also comfortable homes for their own families; and in this way the white men mingle among them, sometimes to their adva- ntage; bust mostly to their disadvantage; it is in this channel that dealers in dry-goods