140 Inasmuch 



with the flat, broad-brimmed episcopal head 

 gear caused great amusement to the entire com 

 pany.&quot; 



The Bishop s Of the large territory over which, with his devot- 

 H?S Diocese ed wife, he now assumed charge, he wrote : &quot;To re 

 present the length and tediousness of travel in 

 this diocese, it may be compared to a voyage, in 

 a row-boat, from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to 

 Fort William, on Lake Superior, or a European 

 may compare it to a voyage in a canal barge from 

 England to Turkey. Both the length and breadth 

 of this diocese equal the distance from London 

 to Constantinople. 



&quot;If all the populations between London to 

 Constantinople were to disappear, except a few 

 bands of Indians or Gypsies, and all the cities 

 and towns were obliterated, except a few log 

 huts on the sites of the capital cities such is the 

 solitary desolation of this land. Again, if all 

 the diversity of landscape and variety of harvest- 

 field and meadow were exchanged for a broken 

 line of willow and pine trees such is this 

 country.&quot; 



His First On arriving, at Fort Simpson, the Bishop began 



synod, 1874 ^ Qnce ^ Q organize his forces. &quot;They were 

 scanty enough: When on September 4th, 1876, 

 he held his first Diocesan Synod, and delivered 

 his Primary Charge, his clergy numbered exactly 

 three, viz., Archdeacon R. McDonald and A. 

 Garrioch, country-born men, and W. D. Reeve, 

 his single English comrade. In addition he had 

 four or five country-born schoolmasters. Yet he 



