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Among the largest benefactors were Elias Boudinot, LL.D., member of Congress from New Jersey, who besides his gifts while living made by will a bequest of $500, and the Baron de Campagne of Pleffcon, Switzerland, who gave nearly $1,000 to the school and more to some individual graduates. The Swiss ministers who forwarded his gift wrote of the school "on which the praying hearts of thousands in Switzerland are fixed." Dr. Solomon Everest of Canton, a near kinsman of the Cornwall Everests, be- queathed to the school a fund of $2,000; Rev. Philander Parmelee of Bolton left it his library, valued at $300, and one-third of his $1,700 estate; Daniel C. Collins of Guilford, $700; Col. Joseph Williams of Greenwich, Mass., $250; Mrs. Huntington, $500; John Williams, $200; and J. Kilbourne, Sandisfield, Mass., $150. As to results:
From the managers of the school came the first proposition to investigate the Sandwich Islands, as preparatory to sending a mis- sionary thither, presented to the American Board in September, 1818. Besides its great influence in awakening interest among Christian people the school wrought a great work for heathen lands. It was like a heart receiving from all parts of the body and returning to all parts again a purified life.
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Among the boys in the school were some Americans. Of these Erastus Cole became a home missionary in the Western Reserve ; Hubbell and Roberts became preachers; Ely, Loomis, and Ruggles were for many years missionaries in the Sandwich Islands, one being the first translator into their language of a part of the Bible and one its printer, the third the first white, as his companion Hopoo was the first native, missionary to land there. Hopoo was the first from the boys of the school to join the church here, and years after it was written of him by the missionary Ely, " His in- defatigable and assiduous labors, in season and out of season, by night and by day, entitle him to the remembrance and esteem of the Church." His was the first Christian marriage in the king- dom of Hawaii. With him sailed John Honoree, for many years a useful helper, Wm. Tennooe, and Geo. (Prince) Tamoree, who never became a professor of religion, yet as a friend of the mis- sionaries rendered efficient service. Through his influence they gained leave to establish the mission, resulting in the conversion of his father, the ruler over two of the islands, and in the rescue of several missionaries when their lives were endangered.
Later Geo. Sandwich, Henry Taheiti, Wm. Kamahoula, Geo. Tyler, John Eliot Phelps, Richard Kariouloo, and Cooperee joined the mission to their native islands, and Stephen Popanee from the Society Islands, became a popular pastor and teacher there. The mission school was not only a means of establishing the mission, but furnished a good part of the force which carried on its work so successfully that the 60,000 people of the Hawaiian Islands are as thoroughly Christianized as New England - one-third of the population church members.
The American Board began its missions to the Indians just at the time of the institution of the mission school, and soon Indian boys began to be sent here by the missionaries for their education. Among these was David Brown, who persuaded the Western Cherokees to organize a civil government with two legislative bodies, and served as clerk of both, their councils, and who was also a joint author of a Cherokee grammar, and wrote a transla- tion of the New Testament from the original Greek into his native tongue, and held religious services with great acceptance. Elias Boudinot was a useful helper, though he gave up preaching to es- tablish as editor the Cherokee Phoenix. His murder for political
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reasons ended a very promising career. John Ridge, murdered later, about the time of Boudinot, became very influential in his nation ; he was wealthy, served as an interpreter, and was sec- retary to the Cherokee delegation to Congress in 1828 and of the Creek delegation the next year. John Vann also became a helper among the Cherokees, so that the Cornwall school had a share in Christianizing that people, who in 1860, numbered about 20,000 and were as civilized as any part of our population, where the Bible was by law required to be read in all schools and a man could hold no civil office who did not believe in a God and a future state. David C. Carter, Judge of their Supreme Court, was from this school.
Among the Choctaws we find a like Christian people of about 20,000. To the work of civilizing and Christianizing them the mission school sent Adin C. Gibbs, a Delaware by birth, who proved an unusually good assistant as a mission school teacher. McKee Folsom was also a helper among them - the first convert from his nation, as Mr. Stone records, when received into the Church. J. J. Loy, a Portuguese, was given a letter from the Church to Montreal. Wm. Botelho (A-See) prepared to preach in China. Photius Kavasales took the name of Fiske; became a clergyman ; an ardent antislavery man ; chaplain in U. S. navy for nearly thirty years, dur- ing which time he drew up a bill, and engineered it through Congress in spite of much opposition, that abolished the brutal punishment of flogging on vessels that bore the stars and stripes. He died about 1888.
But of all the pupils at our mission school Henry Obookiah was the most widely known, and perhaps accomplished the most. It was this lovable, witty, gentlemanly, earnest Christian who chiefly led to the founding of the school. He had a prominent part in raising funds for it; he was personally a great influence among the other pupils; his commanding figure and pleasant ways won attention everywhere, and when he died, disappointed that he could not himself preach the gospel to Hawaii, his influence had helped to make Hopoo a worthy substitute, and his biography be- came a power for good in his native land; the regent declaring it " his ambition to be like Obookiah," while we find it presented to a Russian prince, Galitzin, ordered by Captain Folsom, a Choctaw chief, circulated through every Sunday-school library, leading a
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Swiss nobleman to send over $1,000 for the work, sold in Massa- chusetts in aid of the school, and sent to the governor of Kams- katka as a special treasure .*
God's ways of advancing his cause change, but his work goes on. Who knows who of us may serve him best, or how we may do it? Obookiah and Patoo lie under their stones in the Cornwall ceme- tery, and others in their unmarked graves. They were laid to rest when there were no Christians in their native countries. Let these green mounds be landmarks from which to measure the advances of the kingdom of our God: "Obookiah, 1818; the Sandwich Is- lands, Christianized 1840; Kirkpatrick, 1823; the Cherokees and Choctaws, Christianized 1850." A-See was the beginning of China's now 60,000 converts; there was none then to herald Japan's 40,000, and but one from India was there, the land now of half a million Christians.
" Go teach all nations! "
LIST OF TEACHERS AND PUPILS OF FOREIGN MIS- SION SCHOOL-OPENED IN 1817, CLOSED 1827.
BY REV. E. C. STARR.
Principals - (Rev. Edwin W. Dwight), Rev. Herman Daggett, Rev. Amos Bassett, D.D.
Assistants - Rev. John H. Prentice, Rev. Herman L. Vaill, Horatio N. Hubbell, Bennett Roberts.
Stewards - John P. Northrop, Dea. Lorrain Loomis.
Farm Superintendent - Dea. Henry Hart.
Superintendent of Donations, Rev. Timothy Stone.
FOREIGN MISSION SCHOOL-ROLL OF PUPILS.
BY REV. E. C. STARR.
Abrahams, Judah (or Jonas) Isaac, German Jew.
Alan, Henry Martyn, Chinese A'-lan, deserted.
Alum, William, Chinese A-lum, dismissed. Annance, Simon W., Abenaquis An-nancé.
Arohekaah, Chas. M., Hawaiian A-ro-he-ka'-alı. Arce, Wong, Chinese, dismissed.
Augustine, Peter, Cherokee-Oneida, see Hooker.
Backus, Charles, Hawaiian Na-muk-ka-ha'-100.
The first memoir of Obookiah, by Dwight, was published by the agents of the school anonymously. This was revised and issued about twenty years later by the Tract Society, with the author's name. The S. S. U. also published an edition, now out of print.
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Bassel, Thomas, Cherokee To-tsu-wha, "Red-bird." Botelho, William, Chinese Lieaon A'-see, see Treadwell. Boudinot, Elias, Cherokee Kul-la-geé-nuh, " Buck." Brainerd, David, Hawaiian Mak-oo-wi-hé-na. Brown, David, Cherokee A-will', to Andover. Botang, see Snow, Malay Sar'-duk, a slave. Campbell, Archibald, Scotch, wrote "Campbell's Voyages." Capoo, Samuel Ruggles, Hawaiian Kapoo, dismissed. Chamberlain, Dexter H., Anglo-American. Chamberlain, Nathan B., Anglo-American. (Cooperee, Hawaiian, probably not in school.) Carter, David C., half Cherokee, Ta-walı, dismissed. Chew, Guy, Tuscarora, a fine speaker. Chicks, John N., Stockbridge, Pau-poon'-haut. Cole, Erastus, Anglo-American, Rev. Cornelius, Abraham, Oneida, see Stevens. Crane, James, Ojibwa Nagaunagezhik. Doxtader, Wheelock, Stockbridge, see Wheelock. Ely, James, Rev., missionary, m. Louisa Everest. Elm, Peter, Oneida Té-les, called Peters. Fields, James, Cherokee, of wealth. Fisk, Isaac, Choctaw Pissahchubbee.
Fiske, Photius, see Kavasales, navy chaplain. Folsom, Israel, Choctaw half-breed, Rev., brother of.
Folsom, McKee, brother of chief, Col. David F. Fox, George Atokoh, Seneca, nephew of Chief Pollard. Francisco, Joseph, Mexican-Indian, dismissed. Gibbs, Adin C., Delaware, teacher.
Gray, David, white-Iroquois of Caughnewaga.
Gray, Peter, Iroquois of Caughnewaga, dismissed.
Gray, William Lewis, brother of David. Hawaii, Robert, Hawaiian, miscalled Whyhee. Hicks, Leonard, white-Cherokee, clerk of nation.
Holman, Thomas, M.D., missionary, excom. Honolii, John, Hawaiian Honolii, helper. Hooker, Noadiah Peter Augustine, see Augustine.
Hopu, Thomas, Hawaiian Hopu (or Hopoo), teacher.
Hubbell, Horatio N., Rev., Ohio D. and D. Institution.
Irepoah, John Cleaveland, Hawaiian I-re-po'-ah. Johnson, Aaron, Tuscarora Thau-re-weeths. Johnson, John, Jew-Hindoo-English, Mohammedan. Kanui, William, called Tennooc, lived romance. Karaiulu, Richard, Hawaiian Kalaiculu, etc. Kapoo, see Capoo, became demented. Kapooly, Hawaiian, servant of a Cherokee. Karavelles, Anastasius, Greek, Amherst College.
Kavasales, Photius, Greek, Rev., see Fiske. Keah, Lewis, Marquesan Ké-ah, died here. Kirkpatrick, William, Cherokee, bright, died here. Krygsman, Arnold, Dutch-Malay, dismissed. Komo, John I., Hawaiian Ko-mo, died here. Kaumualii, George P., miscalled Tamoree, in navy. Lewis, James, Narragansett, from Rhode Island. Loomis, Elisha, Anglo-American, teacher, etc. Little, Jonathan, here May-June, 1826. Loy, John Joseph, Portuguese, Azores, died 1897, Canadian doctor. Moses, Abraham. Who? Here September. 1825-June, 1826. Mackey, Miles, Choctaw, dismissed. Mills, Samuel John, Hawaiian, see Palu.
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Monroe, Robert, Osage Holbohchinto.
Mongrin. Charles, perhaps was Newton. Who?
Morgan, Harvey, Anglo-American from Vermont.
Meyers. Nahum, German Jew, voted in, but did he come?
Newcom, John, Stockbridge Wau-ne-mauk'-theet.
Novaheva, Benjamin, Marquesan, see Toke, died here. Newton, Charles, probably took name Mongrin.
Obookiah, Henry, Hawaiian Opukahaia, died here. Palu, John (or Pa'roo) took name Mills.
Papayou, Charles, Tahitian Papa-yoo, dismissed.
Patoo, Thomas Hammatah, Marquesan Ham-me-pa-too, d. here.
Peters, William, later called Elm, dismissed.
Phelps, John Eliot, Hawaiian Kal-la-ah-ou-lun'nah.
Popohe, Stephen, Tahitian Pu-pu-hi, teacher.
Prentice, John Homer, Anglo-American, Rev.
Ridge, John, white-Cherokee, married Sarah B. Northrop.
Roberts, Bennett, Anglo-American, Rev.
Rodgers, Lewis. Who? Here May-June, 1826.
Ruggles, Samuel, Anglo-American, Rev., missionary.
Sabattis, Solomon, Mohegan Sol-lo-loh.
Sandwich, George, Hawaiian Nahlemah-hownah.
Saunders, John, white-Cherokee, killed in Civil War.
Seth, Jacob, Stockbridge Ban-hi-you'-tuth.
Snow, Joseph Botang, see Botang.
Stevens, Abraham, or A. St. Leo, see Cornelius.
Steiner, David, dropped Towcheechy, which see.
Taheiti, Henry, Hawaiian Ta-heé-te, or Tahiti, etc.
Taintor, John, Anglo-American, dismissed.
Tamoree, George P. ("Prince "), Hawaiian. see Kaumualit.
Tarbel, Jacob Peter, Iroquois Tauhangsaalı.
Tawcheechy, David Steiner, Cherokee, see Steiner.
Tennooe, Hawaiian Kanui, became teacher.
Terrell, James, Choctaw, dismissed.
Timor, George, from Timor and Java, dismissed.
Treadwell, John, possibly is Botellio, above.
Tyler, George, Hawaiian Ki'-e-la-ah, shoemaker.
Toke, Benjamin, To'-ke, same as Novahera. Vann, John, white-Cherokee, joined Moravians.
Van Rensselaer, Stephen, Osage Wal-che-oh-heh, helper. Washington, George, Seneca Tauwangi. Weed, George Ludington, M.D., missionary.
Wheelock, Eleazer, took name Do.rtader. Whitefield, George, Ojibwa Catitugegwonnalı.
Whyhee, Robert, Hawaii properly, or Haia, etc.
Windall, John, Bengalese, dismissed. Zealand, Thomas, New Zealander Ka-la'-la.
Most of the foreign pupils returned to their own lands, and many of the Americans (some of whom were student-teachers) became mission- aries. Many pupils were retained but a short time, and dismissed for incapacity or inisconduct. In Hawaii Hopu, Popohe, Hawaii, Sandwich. and Honolii (who found "Blind Bartimeus," the first convert and great orator in the islands) were most useful, along with Rev. Messrs. Rug- gles and Ely, American missionaries, and Loomis, the printer, who after- ward taught among the Indians, as did Annance, Gibbs, and Van Rens- selaer. Dr. Weed was a medical missionary to the Indians. Rev. I. Folsom helped reduce Choctaw to writing and preached thirty years. Brown was preparing for the ministry, after translating the New Test- ment into Cherokee, when he died. Carter was judge of the Supreme
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Court of his nation; he and Boudinot were editors. Ridge, Boudinot. Brown, I. Folsom, Hicks, Hooker, Karavelles ( who also was a teacher) held official stations in their native lands. Fiske* was private secretary of the Greek President, pastor in America, reformer, and agnostic at last. Kaumoualii headed an insurrection that failed, in his father's be- half, a chief captured by Kamehameha I. Patoo died in Cornwall and Harlan Page published his biography. Obookiah died in the school and Rev. E. W. Dwight published his memoirs. Keah, Kirkpatrick, Komo, and Toke died in Cornwall. and Backus either here or soon after leav- ing the school, but none of the mounds near the tombstones of Obookiah and Patoo are marked by any memorial. Of the rest who lived some became good and useful men, some proved worthless, of many little record remains. Dr. Loy, probably the last survivor of the pupils, was a highly esteemed physician at Valleyfield, Canada, where a son has been recently mayor. Carter, I. Folsom, Ridge, and Boudinot have also left noteworthy descendants.
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NOTES ON FOREIGN MISSION SCHOOL.
This David C. Carter, Judge of Cherokee Supreme Court, was the son of the seven-years-old boy captured by the Indians; see Carter family, p. 54 Ist Part. Theodore G. is kinsman of David C. Carter. A letter from him commending the first edition of Cornwall History is dated Deadwood, S. D., Jan. 20, 1898, Chi- cago & Northwestern Railway Co., Land Department, Right of Way Agent. He says he was named after Theodore Sedgwick.
Dr. John Joseph Loy demands more than a passing notice. Born Island of St. Michael, Azores, May 18, 1803. At age of fourteen sailed for Brazil, and was present at impressive ceremony which created Dom Pedro Emperor of Brazil. In 1820 came to Boston, and being desirous to learn English was recommended to the Cornwall Mission School by Dr. Lyman Beecher. Thus be- gan acquaintance with Mrs. Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher. He remained in Cornwall four years, and in 1824 entered Dart- mouth, graduating in 1828. He practiced medicine in various places in Canada before he took up residence in Valleyfield in 1859. In all these places he had a large and successful practice. " He spoke English, French, and Portuguese. He was well posted in sacred scripture, and was a devout and earnest Christian, very conscientious in his dealings with men and lenient with his patients. He would ask little or nothing of those who could ill afford to pay for the attendance of a physician. He was a total abstainer, and attended the first public temperance meeting held in Montreal."
NOTE - Biography by Lyman F. Hodge, Boston, 1891.
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Mar. in 1835 Ann Jane Pease. Two girls, who d. in childhood. Son George, mayor of Valleyfield. Dr. Loy d. March 18, 1897, the last survivor of the pupils of the Foreign Mission School.
LETTER FROM JOHN RIDGE TO MY FATHER, DR. S. W. GOLD.
He was a student at the Foreign Mission School, and my father as physician for the school attended him for disease of hip, to which he refers:
WASHINGTON CITY, January 2, 1831. DOCTOR SAM'L W. GOLD. My Friend:
Yours of the 28th ult. reached me last night and has afforded me great pleasure. The kind condolence of acquaintances and friends of Indians throughout the U. S. comes upon the ear like soft music of other days, when the administration of the general government observed a sacred regard for subsisting treaties with our Nation and maintained the faith and honor of united America, as handed down to them from their great revolutionary ancestors. To the Supreme Court our Nation has appealed, in their adversity, for relief, and we are now convinced that the Chief Justice views the appellate jurisdiction of the court ex- tended so far as to embrace the controversy of Georgia and the Cherokee Nation, by issuing a writ of injunction to stay the execution of a Chero- kee who has been sentenced to be hung by the authorities of Georgia. It is immaterial whether the governor of Georgia respects this injunc- tion or not. The mighty influence of the friends of the union of these states, the advocates and friends of the power of the Supreme Court as construed by Webster and Madison, must now rally around the standard of the Cherokees to support their own principles against the friends of the doctrine of nullification of the South, who have attempted to tread under foot, to subserve selfish views, the treaties established on the Constitution of the U. S.
It is with a good deal of pleasure to me to advise you of my con- viction of the friendship of Henry Clay to the rights of the Cherokees as guaranteed to them in treaty, which I have derived from some of the hon. members of Congress from Kentucky. It is to a change of this administration that we must now wait for relief. "Stand out," as you have recommended, until we can be righted by the mighty voice of the people of this great republic, by elevating to office men who will enforce the treaties and the laws of the Union provided for the protection of the Cherokees.
Several years have passed since I had the pleasure of seeing you, and since you have mentioned my friends in respectful remembrance, which I assure you is reciprocated, it may not be amiss to inform you a little about myself. My Nation have recently signified its confidence in me by electing me as President of their Committee, which is in some degree like your Senate, and have sent me also as one of their deputation to this city. My health has improved, but I am not altogether well. 1 limp a little in my gait in walking, occasioned, as you know, by the disease of my hip. My wife Sarah is the happy mother of three Indian children, two girls, and one boy named John Rollin. They are all well. I have eighteen servants, stock of horses and cattle, etc., and a delightful place six miles from father's, which I calculate to improve. I built a fine house for my parents, which would look well even in New England, before I left them. I have made my property by my own means.
My father has a plenty, fine plantation, orchards, etc. He has the
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same firin step, warlike appearance, and is in fine health. He speaks of your hospitality often and would be happy to see you. He possesses a high influence in his country. It is needless for me to say how glad I should be to see you at my home. My wife is very good to me and I love her dearly. She is a good wife. She has a great desire, as well as myself, to visit her friends in New England, which I hope to gratify in the course of a year, or when some degree of tranquillity is restored to my Nation. You may rest assured that our people will not yield to the policy of Jackson to gratify the cupidity of Georgia. Present my best wishes to your lady.
Yours with great regard, JOHN RIDGE.
No memory of my boyhood is clearer than that of a visit to my home in my sixth year of this same John Ridge and his father, Major Ridge, the Cherokee chief. The latter wore the uniform of a U. S. officer, and I was deeply impressed with his “ firm and warlike step." I called him " the nice, big gentleman." My father exchanged presents with him, giving him a small telescope and receiving in turn from him an Indian pipe carved in black stone, with the assurance that it had often been smoked in Indian councils.
I am reminded by an incident in my boyhood that these pupils were not all " good Indians." They were very much like some white and colored boys living at the same date. I lived in Goshen, and, when I was about eight years old, Rev. Joseph Harvey, sec- retary of the Board of Agents, was our next-door neighbor, and had a youth from some Pacific island, a member of the mission school, spending a vacation with him. This Indian worked in Mr. Harvey's garden, and a hostile feeling grew up between him and a colored boy in his teens employed by my father. It was a favorite amusement for this young heathen to throw stones from a sling over the barn to fall where the colored youth was sup- posed to be, and these were returned by the latter in the direction from which they came. I know that this was not a story of the colored boy, for some fell in dangerous proximity to myself. Yet such was the excitement from sense of danger, and that somehow I was myself " particeps criminis," I never reported to my parents at the time, or to the good Dr. Harvey, the practice of his protegee. In proof of the uncertainties of history I am not quite sure that the colored boy was not the aggressor, and it is not quite certain but that the testimony of an Indian, a negro, and a white boy, seeing things from different sides of the barn, would show some discrepancies.
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History of the First Church from where Dr. White's Centennial Sermon left it.
BY REV. E. C. STARR, PASTOR.
Dr. White's ministry was a happy one, and his memory is cherished in Cornwall. With the advancing infirmities of age, bereft of his wife, and his daughters married and gone, he resigned in 1884, and went to live with a son at Downesville, N. Y. He had received into the church thirty-four new members during his ministry of about nine years.
Rev. Henry B. Mead followed Dr. White, preaching for one year (December, 1884-December, 1885), but he did not move his family from Falls Village, and declined a settlement as pastor.
Rev. Oscar G. McIntire was ordained pastor March 31, 1886. Dismissed, October 10, 1887, he took with him a daughter of Cornwall as his wife and efficient helper, Mary J., daughter of S. J. B. Johnson. He received nine into the membership of the church.
The first Sunday of February, 1888, Rev. Edward C. Starr be- gan to preach in the pulpit he has occupied to the present time.
Between the pastorates mentioned in this history there were some long and dreary periods of " candidating," but there were also " stated supplies " of some duration. Besides those already mentioned, Rev. Lewis Jessup preached for many months about 1850, and carried to his parish in Northfield a Cornwall bride, Caroline L. Bonney. About seven years later Rev. William H. Moore also spent half a year or more in the parish.
The Sunday-school of the First Church is one of the oldest in the state, and in the report of the S. S. Union of Connecticut for 1826 its date of organization is given as 1807, the earliest as- cribed. to any school - but many were without date. The first
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known superintendent was Dea. Jedediah Calhoun, in 1830, who was followed by Rev. E. W. Andrews the next year, Dea. Vic- torianus Clark succeeding him. The next name preserved is Capt. Darius Webb. About 1850 Dea. Robert T. Miner was elected, and later Dea. M. D. F. Smith took the place for a year, followed by Dea. Silas Patterson Judson. In the fifties George L. Miner began to serve off and on, for a large part of the next thirty years. In the sixties Dea. Silas C. Beers, Rev. Mark Ives, Horace Hitch- cock, Harlan P. Ives, and Rev. Joseph B. Ives held the position for short periods. Dea. Edwin D. Benedict succeeded in 1884, Dea. Charles C. Marsh in 1889, the present pastor in 1891.
I have now, 1903, been here fifteen years. I have received seventy-one into the church, fifty-one by profession and twenty by letter.
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