t in a little more than an hour the land was reached, and as
there was abundance of dry wood here, a good fire was soon kindled,
before which, on a buffalo skin, I placed my ice-covered companion. He
turned himself around when necessary, and, ere the other sled arrived,
Jack was himself again. As two of the Indians behind us had fallen into
this same fissure, we were delayed for some time in getting them dry
again.

We boiled our kettle and had some more tea, and then on we hurried. I
met with a very warm welcome from the people. The greater part of them
were Indians I had met in other years. Many were from Norway House. To
this place they had come, attracted by the stories of its valuable
fisheries and productive soil. So rapidly had the Mission at Norway
House increased that fish and game were beginning to fail. Hence a
large number emigrated to this and other places.

To this place they had come late in the summer, and so the little houses
they had built were small and cold. Then, to make matters worse, the
fisheries had not proved to be what they had been represented. They
crowded round me as I drove into their village, and told me of their
"hungerings oft," and other hardships. As some sleds were ready to
start for Manitoba, I hurried into one of the little homes to pencil a
note to my Chairman, the Reverend George Young, but found it to be
almost an impossibility, as the four fingers of my right hand were
frozen. These, and a frozen nose, reminded me for several days of that
sixty miles' run on short rations.

I found, in addition to the Christian Indians, quite a number of others
who had been attracted to this place. I spent eight days among them.
They had about a dozen little houses, in addition to a large number of
wigwams. For their supplies they were depending on their rabbit snares,
and their nets for fish, which were obtained in but limited quantities.
As my food had been stolen from me by the dogs, I had nothing but what
they gave me; but of their best they supplied me most cheerfully, and so
I breakfasted, dined, and supped on rabbit or fish, and fared well.

I preached, as was my custom, three times a day, and kept school between
the services. I organised a class or society of thirty-five members,
ten of whom for the first time now decided for Christ, and resolved
henceforth to be His loyal followers. It was a great joy to be
gathering in those decided ones, as the result of the seed s