PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. The Wigwam Scene described in the following pages, occurred at Hantsport , Nova Scotia , in March, 18SS. In the Sixth Annual Report of the Micmac Mission, in a letter written immediately after the event, I find it thus inscribed: " An event of some interest has just occurred here. One of our sick Indians, named John Paul , has just died and was buried to¬ day. I have taken from my first acquaintance with him, a great liking to him. I have spent many an hour with him in his wigwam. He always listened attentively to the Scriptures, and engaged readily in religious conversation, and I have not been without hope. Efforts were made to deter him from allowing my visits, but they were unavailing. I never aimed so much to attack his Romish errors directly, as to dwell upon the free salvation of the Gospel—without money and without price. About last New Year's day, while I was in Halifax, I was informed that the Romish priest had sent orders to him to leave Hantsport , and had threatened him with all the curses of the Church if he remained. His statement to me when I returned, was: " I won't leave this place till I choose. It is not in the power of any man to keep me out of Heaven . That is a matter between God and my own soul." He said in Indian: "Neil alsoomse." " I am my own master. " He remained. He continued to listen to the Bible with attention, and to receive my visits with kindness and respect till he died. I now recollect that when I came to read to him, he would send the small children away that we might not be disturbed. The last time I saw him was a precious season to my own soul. It seemed easy to speak of the Great Redeemer, and of the way of Salvation. I may say that special prayer was made for him in the Meeting House, where a number of Christian friends were assembled on the day before he died, holding a special prayer- meeting on our own account. More than one fervent prayer was offered up for the dying Indian. After the meeting I returned to