osition in various quarters arose, and the Norway House Crees
preferred to go farther south; and finally seventy families preferred
that place, and there they have formed a flourishing additional Mission.
Thus the work advanced, although not all along the lines which some of
us had marked out. With patient endurance my noble wife and I toiled
on. There was room for the exercise of the graces of courage, and hope,
and faith, and patience; but a measure of success was ever ours, and we
saw signs of progress, and had every now and then some clear and
remarkable cases of conversion from the vilest degradation and
superstition into a clear and conscious assurance of Heaven's favour and
smile.

One summer there came from the east to visit us a chieftainess with
several of her followers. Her husband had been the chief of his people,
and when he died she assumed his position, and maintained it well. Her
home was several days' journey away in the interior, but she had heard
of the Missionary who had come to live among the Saulteaux and teach
them out of the great Book. Was not she a Saulteaux, and had not she a
right to know of this new way, about which so much was being said? With
these thoughts in her mind she came to see us. When she came to the
Mission, we saw very quickly that here was an interesting woman. We had
several interviews, and Mrs Young and myself did all we could to lead
this candid, inquiring mind into the right way. Before she left I gave
her a sheet of foolscap paper, and a long lead pencil, and showed her
how to keep her reckoning as to the Sabbath day. I had, among many
other lessons, described the Sabbath as one day in seven for rest and
worship; and she had become very much interested, and promised to try to
keep it.

As she pushed out in her canoe from our shore, her last importunate
request was, that as soon as possible I would visit her and her people
in their own land. So many were my engagements that I could not take up
this additional one until about the middle of the winter following.
When, with a couple of Indian attendants, with our dog-trains, we dashed
into her village, great indeed was her joy at seeing us, and very
demonstrative was the welcome given. She had put up on a staging
outside in the cold a couple of reindeer heads, keeping them there
preserved by the frost until I should arrive. Very quickly were they
taken down to cook. The hair was singed off, and then they were cu