of arranging the various
matters in connection with their prosecution of the fur trade. Here Sir
George Simpson, for many years the energetic and despotic Governor, used
to come to meet these officials, travelling by birch canoe, manned by
his matchless crew of Iroquois Indians, all the way from Montreal, a
distance of several thousand miles. Here immense quantities of furs
were collected from the different trading posts, and then shipped to
England by way of Hudson's Bay.

The sight of this well-kept establishment, and the courtesy and cordial
welcome extended to us, were very pleasing after our long toilsome
voyage up Lake Winnipeg. But still we were two miles and a half from
our Indian Mission, and so we were full of anxiety to reach the end of
our journey. Mr Stewart, however, insisted on our remaining to tea
with him, and then took us over to the Indian village in his own row-
boat, manned by four sturdy Highlanders. Ere we reached the shore,
sweet sounds of melody fell upon our ears. The Wednesday evening
service was being held, and songs of praise were being sung by the
Indian congregation, the notes of which reached us as we neared the
margin and landed upon the rocky beach. We welcomed this as a pleasing
omen, and rejoiced at it as one of the grand evidences of the Gospel's
power to change. Not many years ago the horrid yells of the conjurer,
and the whoops of the savage Indians, were here the only familiar
sounds. Now the sweet songs of Zion are heard, and God's praises are
sung by a people whose lives attest the genuineness of the work
accomplished.

We were cordially welcomed by Mrs Stringfellow in the Mission house,
and were soon afterwards joined by her husband, who had been conducting
the religious services in the church. Very thankful were we that after
our long and adventurous journeyings for two months and eighteen days,
by land and water, through the good providence of God we had reached our
field of toil among the Cree Indians, where for years we were to be
permitted to labour.

Mr and Mrs Stringfellow remained with us for a few days ere they set
out on their return trip to the province of Ontario. We took sweet
counsel together, and I received a great deal of valuable information in
reference to the prosecution of our work among these Red men. For
eleven years the missionary and his wife had toiled and suffered in this
northern land. A goodly degree of success had attended their eff