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scribed the new station &quot;we are about to occupy 

 in North- West America as immediately opposite 

 to Shanghai, so that we now complete the girdle 

 of missionary stations around the globe.&quot; The 

 Satellite sailed on December 23rd, from Ply 

 mouth, doubled Cape Horn and came to an anchor 

 on the 23rd of June, in Esquimault Harbour. 

 Duncan at Mr. Duncan was still five hundred miles short 



Ton* oet! P i~st, of his destination, and strong objections were made 



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against him going there, &quot;He might get to Fort 

 Simpson,&quot; he was told, &quot;but then he could only 

 go outside at the risk of his life, and the Indians 

 would not be permitted to come inside: what 

 work, then, could he do ? After waiting for three 

 months, he secured a passage and arrived at his 

 station on the first of October. Like other 

 Hudson s Bay trading posts, Fort Simpson con 

 sisted of a few houses, stores and workshops, sur 

 rounded by a palisade twenty feet high. The 

 inmates consisted of about twenty white men or 

 half-breeds, with the wives and children of some 

 of them. Outside the fort was a large village 

 of Tsimshean Indians, comprising some 250 

 wooden houses. In the next few months Duncan 

 visited every house and counted the inmates, 

 finding 637 men, 756 women, and 763 children, 

 2,156 in all; and about 400 men were stated to be 

 absent at the time. &quot; 



Murder of Among Duncan s early experiences was the 



slave Woman ^^ Q & s i ave WO man done to death on the sea 

 shore, and of two nude medicine men rushing upon 

 the body tearing it apart with teeth and claws, and 



