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ence, if not something worse, of the white settlers 

 towards the welfare of the natives. Personal 

 kindness Mr. Dowson received abundantly, but it 

 was to the English stranger and not to the 

 Indian Missionary. Almost everyone laughed 

 at the idea of his teaching Indians, saying 

 there was no good in them and no gratitude ; 

 and frequently it was remarked they ought to be 

 rooted out like tree-stumps. 



&quot;Owing to the illness of his wife the first R G V. R. DOW- 

 Missionary was obliged to return to England, but fo n Engiandf 

 during his short stay Mr. Dowson had succeeded 1 

 in gaining the confidence of the Indians around 

 him, and proving that they were capable of re 

 ceiving good as well as bad impressions. You 

 teach savage good, savage s heart good to you, 

 was the expression of an Indian on experiencing, 

 probably for the first time in his life, Christian 

 sympathy and love. A knowledge of medicine 

 was of great assistance to the Missionary, and his 

 reputation for doing good reached the Saanechs, 

 whose three principal chiefs came to invite him to 

 live among them, promising to give gratis, 

 plenty of good land to build a house upon, and 



that not one of them would steal or do any 



wrong. 



The proclamation establishing British Colum- British Coi- 

 bia as a Crown Colony, was followed immediately cSony aAd W 

 by its formation into a diocese with an endow- Dloce8e 

 ment given by the late Baroness Burdett-Coutts. 

 The earlier reports of Bishop Hills describe con- Bishop mils 

 ditions, as he found them, among the Indians. 



