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LIST OF LETTERS LATELY RECEIVED.

EAST INDIES.-Rev. James Thomas, Calcutta, Jan. 17, May 1; Messrs. Penney and Thomas, Calcutta, May 2; James Penney, Calcutta, July 16 ; Andrew Leslie, Monghyr, April 21; Henry Beddy, Patna, April 15; G. Bruckner, Samarang, Dec. 2.

WEST INDIES.-Rev. John Clarke, Jericho, March 8, May 1; Kingston, May 16: Utica, U. S., July 11; Thomas Burchell, Montego Bay, May 1, (two); Kingston, May 26, 28; Montego Bay, May 28, June 25, July 18, Aug. 21; John Kingdon, Belle Castle, May 8, Aug. 10; B. B. Dexter, R. Bueno, May 7; Stewart Town, June 13; William Knibb, Annatto Bay, May 3; Falmouth, May 8, 29, (with others); June 7, (two) 12; July 3, 13; Thomas F. Abbott, St. Ann's Bay, April 21; Anatto Bay, May 3; St. Ann's Bay, May 28, June 11, July 3; Samuel Whitehorne, Kingston, May 12, July 30; Joshua Tinson, Kingston, May 9, 11, Aug. 14, (two); James Reid, Hayes Savanna, May 22; Vere, June 27; Walter Dendy, Salter's Hill, May 14; David Day, Falmouth, May 17; Port Maria, July 18, Aug. 15; Samuel Oughton, Lucea, May 29, June 26, Aug. 24; John Clark, Brown's Town, May 29, and another without date; John Hutchins, Savanna-la-Mar, June 5, July 10; J. M. Phillippo, Spanish Town, June 9, July 7, Aug. 12, (two); Josiah Barlow, Anatto Bay, May 28; W. Snaggs and J. R. Walker, Kingston, June 29; H. C. Taylor, Old Harbour, June 27, Aug. 20; L. H. Evelyn, Lucea, July 10; T. E. Ward, Falmouth, Aug. 14.

BAHAMAS.-Rev. E. F. Quant, Grand Cay, April 17, May 18, July, 27; T. Applegate, Nassau, May 4, June 7, Aug. 6; T. Leaver, Nassau, April 27, June 9, 11, Aug. 3; R. Bell, Nassau, June 11; C. J. Stamers, Turk's Island, May 18.

SOUTH AMERICA.-Rev. Alex. Henderson, Belize, May 12, July 14; H. Philpot, Belize, May 11, July 24.

SOUTH AFRICA.-Messrs. Kidwell, Nelson, and Webb, Graham's Town, June 1.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Received on account of the Baptist Missionary Society, from Sept. 15, to Oct. 15, 1838, not including individual subscriptions :

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James Edwards, Esq., Lyme.

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Ladies at Devonshire Square Chapel, by Mr. Hawkins, for Chitpore...
William Kay, Esq., Liverpool,
Messrs. W. and G. Medley, Do.

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Mr. W. Walker,

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Miss Walker, Edinburgh, for Schools in New Providence, by Rev. Jo-
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A. G., Horsington

The late Mr. W. Morten, Amersham, by W. Morten, Esq................
From Jamaica, by Rev. Samuel Oughton :-

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For the Liquidation of the Debt owing by the Society.

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The thanks of the Committee are presented to Mrs. Williams, of Reading, for a box containing books from Miss Maurice, and other articles for Mrs. Phillippo, of Spanish Town; to Miss Dudley, of Peckham, for a box for the Christmas Bazaar, in aid of the schools at Spanish Town; to friends at Regent Street Chapel, Lambeth, by Mrs. Meredith, for a box for Mr. Knibb; to a Friend, Blackfriars Road, for sundry magazines, and to Mr. J. Ramsden, of Leeds, for Fuller's Life and Works, 9 vols. Mr. Ramsden will be gratified to know that one of our laborious missionaries in Jamaica, in a recent letter, earnestly solicited Fuller's Works; they will, therefore, be forwarded to him by the first con

veyance.

A Brief Sketch of the Mission, and of its various stations, &c., in the East and West Indies, has just been printed, and may be had on application at the Mission House, or to Mr. G. Wightman, 24, Paternoster Row, at 6s. per 100.

J. Haddon, Printer, Castle Street, Finsbury.

THE

MISSIONARY MAGAZINE

AND

CHRONICLE,

RELATING CHIEFLY TO THE MISSIONS OF

The London Missionary Society.

SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS in aid of the Funds of this Society will be thankfully received by the Treasurer or Secretaries, at the Mission House, Blomfield-street, Finsbury, and by Messrs. Hankey, the Society's Bankers, 7, Fenchurch-street, London; in Edinburgh, by Mr. George Yule, Broughton Hall; in Glasgow, by Mr. Risk, 9, Cochranestreet; and in Dublin, by Messrs. J. D. La Touche and Co., or at 7, Lower Abbey-street.

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RESIDENCES OF THE BAKUENS, SOUTH AFRICA. THE following description of a singular expedient adopted by one of the native tribes in South Africa, to preserve themselves from the attacks of the numerous beasts of prey which infest the country, has been furnished by the Rev. Robert Moffat, of Lattakoo, under whose observation it came during one of his journeys to the northward of that station. Mr. Moffat writes :-

"Five days after leaving the Baharutse I came to the first cattle outpost of the Matabele, near a beautiful tree of gigantic size, inhabited by several families of VOL. II.

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Bakuens, the aborigines of the country. On halting I instantly proceeded to the tree, soon mounted the aerial abodes, and to my astonishment counted no fewer than seventeen houses, and part of three others unfinished. On reaching the topmost hut, about thirty feet from the ground, I entered and sat down. Its only furniture was the hay which covered the floor, a spear, a spoon, and a bowl full of locusts. As I had not tasted any food since morning, I asked a woman who sat at the door with an infant in her arms permission to eat. She cheerfully consented, and brought me some more of the same provision in a powdered state. This seemed to be the only kind of food in their possession. Several other persons came from the neighbouring roosts to see the stranger, who to them was as great a curiosity as the tree was to him. I then visited the different habitations, each of which was fixed upon a separate branch. An oblong scaffold is formed of straight sticks about seven feet long, placed transversely across the boughs. On this the conical house is formed also of small straight sticks, and neatly thatched with long grass. A person can stand nearly upright in the centre, and the diameter of the floor is about six feet. The house stands on one end of the oblong platform, so as to leave a little square space before the door. These are the humble though lofty domiciles of the poor aborigines, who are destitute of every thing like cattle, and who live on the fruits of the field, and on the chase. They adopt this plan in order to escape the lions, which often prowl under the tree.

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"In the course of the day I also passed a village containing at least forty houses, built on the tops of poles, about seven or eight feet from the ground. form a circle, and each house stands distinct from the rest. A forked stick or branch of a tree is planted at the front of each habitation, for the purpose of ascending. In the centre of the circle was a large heap of bones and horns of the game they had killed."

WEST INDIES.-EXTINCTION OF COLONIAL SLAVERY. SURPASSED only in intensity by the grateful and absorbing interest with which the religious public of this country anticipated the approach and celebration of the first of August in the West Indies, as the day when the full light of liberty would arise on thousands of fellow-beings in that portion of the globe, was the pleasing hope, mingled with deep solicitude, entertained as to the temper and spirit in which this great festival of freedom would be observed by the large population whose condition was about to undergo so great a change. In relation to that portion of the apprenticed labourers who were manifestly under the influence of religion, a happy confidence, founded on the experience of their past exemplary course, was felt that their conduct, amid all the hilarity of spirits and temptations to excess inseparable from the approaching jubilee, would prove not unworthy of their profession of the name of Christ, nor fail to evince their practical regard for the salutary and affectionate counsels of those who have long laboured to promote their temporal and eternal welfare. The first of August, 1838, the day to which so many looked forward with intense and blended emotions, is now past; it rose in joy and set in peace; and all anxiety respecting the manner in which it would pass is now at rest.

The confidence cherished in our newly emancipated fellow-subjects has not been abused or betrayed. The tens of thousands of various classes of coloured labourers, who were held under the galling bondage of the apprenticeship, have received the boon of liberty with overflowing gratitude to those through whose instrumentality it has been secured; and many of them have also piously and

thankfully acknowledged the hand of God in this long-expected consummation of their hopes, accepting it as a token of the favour of Him without whose blessing no earthly possession can prove truly and permanently beneficial.

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The Missionaries labouring at the Society's stations in the West Indies have had the hallowed pleasure of sharing in the triumphs of the first of August. had been their anxious and constant endeavour duly to prepare the minds of the apprentices for the greatly altered condition on which the latter have now entered; and hitherto the brethren have had the high gratification of beholding the object, thus earnestly and prayerfully sought, fully realised. The day which brought to a close the dreadful scenes of human wrong and suffering, continued through various changes, and under diversified forms, for nearly three centuries in the West Indies, and ushered in a new era of justice, humanity, truth, and freedom, has been unstained, at least we have reason to believe among the religious portion of the liberated population, by a single act unworthy of the principles in which they have been instructed, or inconsistent with the new duties and relations to which they have been introduced. Not even in the first burst of transport, when the rising sun declared the day, after which they never again could become slaves, did they swerve from the manifestation of a spirit becoming Christian men.

No intemperate mirth or profane exultation-no disposition to brood sullenly and angrily over past injuries and sorrows-no desire to make any use of their newly-acquired privileges at variance with the interests of those who still continue to require their labours, was manifested. Contrary to all this, the prevailing spirit of the people was that of gratitude, and hope, and joy. So far as their proceedings partook of a festive character, they were conducted with order, decorum, and sobriety, and the whole of their conduct at this memorable crisis supplied abundant evidence of a willingness to forget and forgive all that is past, and a desire to go forward in the career of liberty as faithful subjects of the Crown, good members of society, and consistent professors of the Gospel of Christ. The greater part of the most recent communications from the Society's devoted Missionaries in this part of the world naturally relate to the subject of the emancipation, and to the manner in which it has been celebrated by the members of the churches and congregations under their immediate care; and with feelings of extreme satisfaction, we now invite the attention of the friends of humanity and religion to the annexed extracts of the letters with which we have been favoured, in reference to a topic so deeply interesting and important.

DEMERARA.

In the Missionary Magazine for September, we were enabled to state that the termination of the apprenticeship, on the first of August, had been resolved upon by the Jamaica House of Assembly, early in June; but it was not then positively ascertained, though fully believed, that the colony of British Guiana had followed the example. The cheering intelligence has since arrived, that a similar bill was introduced there on the 12th of July, when the Court of Policy consented to give unqualified freedom to every negro in British Guiana, on the first of August. Respecting the celebration of the day, and other incidental circumstances connected with it, the Rev. S. S. Murkland, stationed at the Ebenezer Chapel station, West Coast, Demerara, thus writes :

A royal salute from the fort ushered in the day of freedom; and as soon as the sun arose above the horizon, our emancipated brethren began to assemble in the chapel,

to return thanks to God for the great deliverance. The morning service was peculiarly interesting, several appropriate hymns were sung, the 103rd Psalm was read and

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