better care of our
Missionary."

We found Timothy very sick indeed. We ministered to his comfort, and
had it then in our power so to arrange that, while the work should not
suffer, he could have rest and quiet. His success had been very marked,
and the old Saulteaux rejoiced that he and the rest of them were to be
neglected no longer. He had made such diligent progress himself in
spiritual things that I gladly baptized him and his household.

There were times when our supplies ran very short, and hunger and
suffering had to be endured. During the first Riel Rebellion, when we
were cut off from access to the outside world, we were entirely
dependent upon our nets and guns for a long time. Our artist has tried
to tell a story in three pictures.

At the breakfast table we had nothing to eat but the hind-quarter of a
wild cat. It was very tough and tasteless; and while we were trying to
make our breakfast from it, Mrs Young said, "My dear, unless you shoot
something for dinner, I am afraid there will be none."

So I took down my rifle, and tied on my snow-shoes, and started off
looking for game. See Picture I. Pictures II and III tell the rest of
the story.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN.

SMALL-POX PESTILENCE--HEROIC CONDUCT OF CHRISTIAN INDIANS--WHITES
SUPPLIED WITH PROVISIONS BY RED MEN--THE GUIDE SAMUEL PAPANEKIS--HIS
TRIUMPHANT DEATH--NANCY, THE HAPPY WIDOW--IN POVERTY, YET REJOICING.

We were very much shocked, during the early spring, to hear that that
terrible disease, the small-pox, had broken out among the Indians on the
great plains of the Saskatchewan.

It seems to have been brought into the country by some white traders
coming up from the State of Montana. When once it had got amongst them,
it spread with amazing rapidity and fatality. To make matters worse,
one of the tribes of Indians, being at war with another, secretly
carried some of the infected clothing, which had been worn by their own
dead friends, into the territory of those with whom they were at war,
and left it where it could be easily found and carried off. In this way
the disease was communicated to this second tribe, and thousands of them
died from it.

Every possible precaution against the spread of this terrible destroyer
was taken by the Missionaries, Messrs. McDougall and Campbell, aided by
their Christian people. But, in spite of all their efforts, it
continued cutting down both whites and Indians. To save some of his
people