Among other great ends which they also avowed was "the civilization of the savages." In one of Oglethorpe's first re ports to the trustces he says: "A little Iudian nation-the only one within fifty miles-is not only in amity, but desirous to be subjects to his Majesty King George; to have lands given to them among us, and to breed their clildren at our sehools Their chicf and his beloved man, who is the second man in the nation, desire to be instructed in the Christian religion."

The next year he returned to England, carrying with him eight Indian ehiefs, to show them "so much of Great Britain and her institutions as might enable then to judge of her power and dignity. Nothing was neglected," we are told, "that likely to awaken their euriosity or impress them with a sense of the power and grandeur of the nation." They received by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and by the Fellows of Eton, aud for a space of four months were was were bospitably el tertained, and shown all the great sights of London and its vieinity.

The tribes at home were mnch gratified by these attentions paid to their representatives, and sent out to the trustees a very eurions missive, expressing their thanks and their attachnent to General Oglethorpe. This letter was the prodnction of a young Cherokce chicf. It was written in black and red hieroglyphs on a dressed buffalo-skin. Before it was sent to England it was exlibited in Savannah, and the meaning of the hieroglyphs translated by an interpreter in a grand gathering of fifly Indian chiefs and all the principal people of Savannah. Afterward the curious document was framed and hung up in the Georgia Office in Westminster.

When the Wesleyan missionaries arrived in Georgia, two years later, some of the chicfs who had made this visit to England went to meet them, carrying large jars of honey and of millk as gifts, to "represent their inclinatious and one of the chicfs said to Mr. Wesley, "I am glad you are come. When I