latter Capt. Brintnal provided a suitable place, and took Henry to his own house, where he was treated with that attention which his situation in a strange land peculiarly required. He soon became acquainted with some of the students of Yale College, who, with the consent of Capt. Brintnal, took him under their care, and agreed to educate him. After residing a short time in the family of Dr. Dwight, where he was taught the first principles of Christianity, Mr. Samuel J. Mills, one of the young gentlemen above mentioned, took him under his particular care, and sent him to live with his father, the Rev. Mr. Mills of Torringford.

Here Henry received every thing necessary for his comfort and improvement. As he could not endure constant study without injury to his health, a part of his time was occupied in labour. From the strong interest which he took in the new objects with which he was surrounded, and a surprising readiness at imitation, he soon became acquainted with the various operations of husbandry. To the improvement of his mind every possible attention was paid, and his progress was such, as fully to convince those who instruct ed him that their labour was not in vain. He soon acquired a knowledge of spelling, and in a few months was able to read in the New Testament. By this time he had also made considerable proficiency in learning to write, and through the whole period it was observed that he learned to talk English as fast as he learned to spell it. When he became able to communicate his ideas, he would, in a broken manner, express a very tender concern for his countrymen, in language like the following: "Omy poor folkee Owhy

his natural abilities were inferior to none

of his age, yet such was his disposition and his love of a sailor's life, that little hope was entertained of his future use.

fulness. He is now living in the family of Gideon Granger, Esq. in the state of New York, has become more steady, receives instruction, and promises to be

Come useful

hee-do know notting-me wish dey know'd what me do-dey pray to de wooden god-no good, dey be very wicked-dey kill em-dey stab emdey hang em up—Oh !”

When asked whether he did not wish to return to Owhyhee, he would say, "Yes, when me know enough." By reading, by conversation, and by hearing preaching, he made great progress in acquiring religious knowledge. The gospel doctrines he received and understood with wonderful avidity and correctness. After removed with his young patron, Mr. living some time at Torringford, he where he spent two years, partly in Mills, to Andover, Massachusetts, labour, and partly in study, and experienced much kindness from the divinity students, and other pious and charitable people of that place. His progress in human and religious knowledge while at Andover was very considerable, as is evident from the testimony of his instructors, as well as from his letters.

With the religious instruction which was given him were united many prayers for his conversion, and it is hoped they were graciously answered. After repeated seasons of distress for his soul, he was hopefully brought into the kingdom of the Redeemer.

The greater part of the summer of 1814, he passed in Mr. Mills's family, employing his time principally in labouring on the farm, for the sake of acquiring greater skill in husbandry.

In the fall of this year, at a meeting of the North Consociation of Hartford County, Obookiah presented to that body a written account of himself, in which he stated his desire of obtaining an education, and solicited their patronage. He was accordingly taken under their care, and a Committee was appointed to solicit on his behalf pecuniary aid from the Christian public, and su perintend his education. By them he was placed under the care of the Rev. Mr. Harvey, of Goshen, with whom he has since been pursuing his studies.

"As to Henry Obookiah, he is certainly promising. He is possess ed of an amiable disposition, and talents capable of being useful. He has a quick apprehension, and good memory; and considering all the disadvantages under which he labours from early habits, and from the fact that he studies in a strange Janguage, I think his improvement more than ordinary."

As to his Christian character, it may be observed, that since he has entertained a hope of having experienced a change of heart, his conduct has been such as becomes the gospel. He has lately been baptized and received into the church in Torringford. Mr. Mills observes, that the account which he gave at his examination of his Christian experience, was highly satisfactory. We shall close this account in the words of Mr. Harvey, in his letter already alluded to:

"Henry is bent upon going back to his countrymen with the glad tidings of salvation. This seems to be his great object."

**The account of W. Tennooe, (the other youth) in our next.

CHINA.

EAPTISM OF A CHINESE.

Tsac-a-no desires baptism. His written confession respecting him self is as follows:

"Jesus making atonement for us is the blessed sound. Language and though are both inadequate to exhaust the gracious and admirable goodness of the intention of Jesus.

I now believe in Jesus, and rely on his merits to obtain the remission of sin. I have sins and defects, and without faith in Jesus for the remission of sins should be eternally miserable. Now that we have heard of the forgiveness of sins through Jesus, we ought with all our hearts to rely or his merits. He who does not do so is not a good man. I by no means rely on my own goodness. When I reflect and question myself, I perceive that from childhood til! now I have had no strength-no merit-no learning. Till this my 27th year I have done nothing to answer to the goodness of God in giving me existence in this world as a human being. I have not recompensed the kindness of my parents, my relations, my friends. Shall I repine! Shall I hope in my own good deeds! I entirely call upon God the Father, and rely upon God for the remission of sin. I also always pray to God to confer upon me the Holy Spirit."

He is the son of a second concu bine. His father's wife died without children, when he was sixteen years of age. When he was 21, he came to my house, and heard me talk of Jesus, but says he did not well understand what I meant. That was my first year in China. Three years after, when I could. speak better, and could write, he understood better, and being employed by his brother in superin tending the New Testament for the press, he says that he began to see that the merits of Jesus were able to save all men, in all ages and nations, and hence he listened to and believed in him.

His natural temper is not good. He often disagreed with his brother and other domestics; and I thought it better that he should retire from my service. He however continued, whenever he was within a few miles, to come to worship on the sabbath day.

He prayed earnestly morning and evening, and read the decalogue as contained in the Catechism. He says that from the decalogue and instruction of friends, he saw his great

and manifold errors-that his nature was wrong-that he had been unjust, and that he had not fulfilled his duty to his friends or brother, or other men.

His knowledge of course is very limited, and his views perhaps obacure, but I hope that his faith in Jesus is sincere. I took for my guide what Philip said to the Eunuch, " If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest" be baptized. O that at the great day he may prove to have been a brand placked out of the burning. May God be glorified in his eternal salvation!

He writes a tolerably good hand. His father was a man of some property, which he lost by the wreck of a junk in the China seas returning from Batayia Tsae-ako, when at school, was often unwell, and did not make so much progress as his brother Tsae-aheen, who is with me. Tsae-aheen is mild and judicious, but is, I fear, in his heart, opposed to the gospel. His attendance to preaching on the Lord's Day is also constant-but insincerity and want of truth are vices which cling to the Chinese character.

At a spring of water, issuing from the foot of a lofty hill by the sea side, away from human observation, I baptized, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the person whose character and confession has been given above. O that the Lord may cleanse him from all sin in the blood of Jesus, and purify his heart by the influences of the Holy Spirit. May he be the first fruits of a great harvest; one of millions who shall believe and be saved from the wrath to come.

Jan. 21, 1815.-I parted from my dear family, Mrs. Morrison's long continued ill health making a return to her native country absolutely ne

cessary.

I have been induced, by much reflection on the state of this mission, to recommend it to my excellent colleague Mr. Milne to go to Malacea, to found there a permanent seat for our mission. Whether he would be allowed to remain either at CanMacao during the ensuing

season is very uncertain; but independent of that consideration I advise him to go. He has been favoured with the kind attention of many persons of high respectability at Java, at Malacca, and other places in that neighbourhood, which peculiarly fits him for the branch of this mission which he is about to form-a measure which I earnestly recommended two years ago, and which the judicious Mr. H. one of the Fathers of the Missionary Society, has, in a letter to me, most cordially approved. I have sanguine hopes of the success of this proposed branch of the Chinese mission, partly from the qualifications of the person who has to undertake it, and partly from the full liberty which will be enjoyed to preach and to teach the doctrines and precepts of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Mr. Milne will continue his study of the Chinese language, with a view to aid his translating the remaining parts of the sacred Scriptures, or in improving future editions of those parts already trans lated. He has composed and is printing a little work, in which he has explained evangelically and luminously many parts of the New Testament. His progress in the language has been highly creditable and encouraging. I pray that his life may be continued many years, for a blessing to these parts of the world.

I have the Book of Genesis in the press, and hope that it will be finished in a few days. If so, I will send home a few copies of the proof sheets.

I am about to enter on the Chinese Dictionary, which has been frequently mentioned. The Hon. the Court of Directors have liberally undertaken the expence of printing it, and have sent out a press on purpose for it.I pray that Divine Providence may spare my life to finish it.

Wishing the highest possible success to the pious labours of the Mis sionary Society, I remain,

Rev. and dear Sir,
Your's in the faith of our Lord,
R. MORRISON,

To the Rev. G. Burder,
Sec. to the Missionary Society.

Extract of a Letter from the Rev. William Milne to the Secretary, dated Canton, Feb. 6, 1815.

Your very interesting letter of the 15th Feb. 1814, came to hand in Oct. last. I rejoice in the growing prosperity of the Society. The increase of your funds will prove a most important facility for spreading the knowledge of the blessed Gospel. I wrotę you a few lines, dated Macao, 24th Sept, last, after my return from Java, and I now send, by the ship Thames, i my journal, giving an account of the manner in which the word of life was distributed in Java.. As there will be a third fleet this season, I expect to send you, as an appendix to my journal, a few ideas on a plan for the establishment of six or seven new missions, or, as Mr. Morrison calls them, branches of the Chinese mission; some of them, however, relate to other people, viz. the Malays

and Javanese.

You will see from the journal of my highly and justly esteemed elder brother, that we have resolved on commencing a mission to Malacca, which work falls to me-The Lord give me wisdom. It is wished by Mr. Morrison, that as Malacca com→ mands a ready intercourse with all the Malay countries, lies in the way to Siam, Cochinchina, and China itself, it might become the chief seat and centre of all your extra Ganges Missions, especially the Chinese.Conscious of my own unfitness to lay the foundation of a mission expected or wished to grow into an institution of so much importance, I have, I truly acknowledge, consented to go with considerable reluctance-but obeying the dictate of existing circumstances, and encouraged by the opinion and advice of my faithful friend and brother, Morrison, I will go and try what can be done. It is still rather uncertain whether a passage can be got this season, without going round by Manilla and Java, which would create a prodigious increase of expence and great loss of time. We must, however, be guided by cir

cumstances.

I had lately sent me an extract of

a letter from of Fe nang, which expresses his readiness to concur in every proper measure for the spread of Christian knowledge in those places, especially among the Chinesc. This is rather a favourable circumstance, and should I be spared to go to Malacca, I purpose to present a memorial in the name of the Missionary Society, relative to a grant of land, and, if the case should require it, to take a passage to Penang, and state the objects personally. I presume the Society will not grudge a moderate expence that might be incurred with such a view, especially as there would be an opportunity at the same time of putting the word of life into the hands of the Chinese there.

I hope the Bible Society will ever keep their eye on and turn the stream of their benevolence towards China. We want, Sir, fifty millions of New

Testaments for China!-and after all only about one-sixth of the population would be supplied !—I should ask no higher honour on earth than to distribute the said number.

Your's &c.

W. MILNE.

AFRICA.

PROGRESS OF CIVILIZATION AMONG THE HOTTENTOTS.

(From a Letter by Mr. Read, dated Be

thelsdorp, April 9, 1815.)

The

Our readers will probably recollect, that the government of the colony of the Cape had laid a considerable tax on Bethelsdorp. operation of this tax was greatly feared, especially as (through peculiar circumstances) the amount of two years taxes was to be paid ať one time. "Remonstrances (says Mr. Read) proved useless, and the only alternative was for the people to exert themselves to the utmost of their power to raise the money. Accordingly, they dispersed themselves, and applied, some to hewing and sawing timber, others to beating bark, or burning charcoal. The smith, the wheelwright, the carpenter, &c. all exerted themselves to comply with the demand made on thems