The missionaries solicited their permission to do what they did, and this was the very way to make them show off their airs, for they are so disobliging; if they perceive any one in the least dependent upon them, they immediately begin to tyrannize.

A more mean and selfish vice certainly does not exist in the world.

I am trying a different plan with them.

I make my presence with any of them a favor, and when they show any impudence, I threaten to leave them, and if they don't amend, I put my threat into execution.

By a bold, free course among them I have had not the least difficulty in managing the most fierce.