way, in which the experience and wisdom of Occum and

his

clerical teachers of the

done."

olden time predicted, it could only be later his During years Occum's reputation passed under

a cloud, and before his death he relapsed into some of the worst

habits of his tribe ; but this

fact

cannot detract from his per

sonal worth or the excellence of his earlier life.

Men can be

found in all nations, whose record is marred by the weaknesses of age.

" It is not conceived

fact that Noah got

drunk."

necessary to digress or deny the

x

History of Indian Nations, part v, 518, etc.

APPENDIX.

The Moravian missionaries have preserved in their records the names and services of many of the Indian chiefs with whom is brighter than they were associated, but none whose character that of the Mahican chieftain, WASAMAPAH, or Tschoop, who,

after

his

conversion was

called

He was

John.

tfie

first

ruling

When

chief at Shekomeko, in the present county of Dutchess.

met by the missionary Rauch, he is described as the " great

est drunkard

"

people, and as being crippled

by his He became not only a convert, but an interpreter and a

vices.

among his

Most eloquent is his own account preacher of the word of life. cc of his conversion Brethren, I have been a heathen, and :

have grown old among the heathen, therefore I know how the heathen think. Once a preacher came and began to explain answered ' Dost thou to us that there was a God.