Fathers and mothers led their children by the hand.

The priests, standing upon the shore, read the baptismal prayers, and chaunted the praises of God, and then conferred the name of Christians upon these barbarians.

The multitude then came up from the water.
Vlademer was in a transport of joy.

His strange soul was not insensible to the sublimity of the hour and of the scene.

Raising his eyes to heaven he uttered the following prayer: "Creator of heaven and earth, extend thy blessing to these thy new children.