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WITH WILD ESKIMO DOGS UNDER THE AURORAS 



Ci ^^OME at once, and come as quickly 

 t .as you can, for I have taken an over- 

 dose of quinine and am afraid I will 

 die of hydrophobia! " 



Such was the unique and startling com- 

 munication that was brought to me one win- 

 try day by an Indian hunter from an Indian 

 settlement two hundred miles away. 



The writer of it was an Indian native 

 helper, who had been placed in temporary 

 oversight of a mission station until an or- 

 dained missionary could be secured to take 

 full charge of the place. This native worker 

 was not destitute of ability or zeal, but he 

 had had the misfortune to get hold of a medi- 

 cal volume that gave a rather vivid descrip- 

 tion of many of the ills to which the human 

 frame is subject. The Indian, who had 

 quite a good knowledge of the English lan- 

 guage, read this book with a feeling of hor- 

 ror. He was fascinated by it. It nearly 

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