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could not be found. He informed me that I was 

 to proceed to Buffalo, thence to Detroit, and I 

 would be able to ascertain the locality of my 

 future residence. Following these instructions 

 I left York, as if going to the North Pole, on the 

 20th of September, and reached Sault Ste. Marie 

 on the 20th of October following, just one month 

 on the passage.&quot; 



The Mission on Manitoulin Island arose out of settlement 

 a plan proposed by Captain Anderson &quot;A Pr p 8ed 

 gentleman who has,&quot; said the Reverend F. A. 

 O Meara, &quot;grown old in the Indian cause, and in 

 whose mind their civilization has ever been in 

 separably connected with their reception of the 

 Gospel,&quot; to collect all the Indians of the Georg 

 ian Bay District, and the Canadian shores of 

 eastern Lake Superior, and form with them a 

 missionary settlement on one of the large islands. 

 The plan being approved by Sir John Colborne, 

 Captain Anderson and the Rev. Adam Eliot j une&amp;gt; 1835 

 made a tour from Penetanguishene to the Sault 

 Ste. Marie, when four hundred Indians promised 

 to join the proposed settlement. 



&quot;With these prospects of success, the above 

 mentioned gentlemen, with Mr. Orr, as school 

 master, arrived to take up their abode per- Jgfjj 28th 

 manently; and having cleared a few feet of land, 

 in the midst of the thick forest that then occupied 

 the place of the present establishment, planted 

 the standard of the Gospel and of civilization at 

 the door of the wigwam which, for some time, Abandoned 

 formed their only shelter.&quot; In August of the 



