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cerning marriage a strong desire to have their 

 children educated like the whites a disposition 

 to raise the condition of their women to abjure 

 idoltry, their prophets, and the medicine bag, 

 and a growing sense of the sinfulness of murder, 

 drunkenness, implacable enmity and revenge.&quot; 



Mr. O Meara described the following curious curious Prac- 

 practice of the Ojibways: &quot;When their young ways f jib &quot; 

 people reach the age of eleven or twelve, they are 

 directed, by their parents, to blacken their faces 

 and fast, until they obtain from their guardian 

 spirit some dream or vision. Their frame being 

 reduced to a very weak state by abstinence, their 

 minds are very easily wrought on, and they in 

 variably imagine that they have the desired dream 

 or vision; and, according to what they think they 

 then see, so is their destiny; and from that time, 

 they make to themselves representations of what 

 they have seen, and keep them by them; and on 

 these pieces of wood they place their trust for 

 deliverance from sickness and death.&quot; 



The Bishop of Toronto reporting upon his B ishop of 

 first visit to the Mission, was much impressed 

 by the daily worship of his Indian canoemen. 

 &quot;There was,&quot; he said, &quot;something indescribably 

 touching in the service to God upon those 

 inhospitable rocks; the stillness, wildness and 

 darkness, combined with the sweet and plaintive 

 voices, all contributed to add to the solemn and 

 deep interest of the scene.&quot; 



North of Lake Superior lies Lake Nepigon The 

 a magnificent sheet of pellucid water flowing Ml881on 



