He is paid much less than other missionaries and takes on tasks that others would not do. He believes this is predetermined and there is nothing he could have done better. "So I am ready to say that they have used us so, because I cannot teach the Indians as well as the other missionaries, but I can assure them that I endeavor to teach them as well as I do, but I must say that I believe it is because I am a poor Indian , I cannot help but that God created me this way; out to learn many languages and become familiar with Christian religious texts and distance himself from the tradition of his “pagan” brothers (Occom, 52). and the search for self-knowledge that his world of social and economic inequality was holding brings him back but does not allow this to hinder his
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