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accompanied by unmistakable spiritual results. 

 The Bishop of Columbia himself twice took the Bishop Hiiis 

 five hundred miles -voyage to receive the converts Metiakahtia 

 into the congregation of Christ s flock. In 

 1863 he baptized fifty-nine adults and some 

 children, and in 1866 sixty-five adults; besides 

 whom, during nearly the same period, 135 adults 

 and thirty-one children were baptized by two 

 other clergymen from Victoria, making a total 

 with one other within ten years of Duncan s 

 first arrival on the coast, of 278 baptisms of adult 

 converts and about fifty of the children of Chris 

 tian parents.&quot; 



Among the baptisms was that of Quthray, one Quthray 

 of the two naked Shamans, or medicine men, who Ba P tlzed 

 had devoured the body of the slave woman on 

 the beach in front of Fort Simpson. He had long 

 and earnestly desired baptism, and Duncan, in 

 the absence of a clergyman, administered the rite 

 on his deathbed. &quot;I found,&quot; said Duncan &quot;the 

 sufferer apparently on the very verge of eternity, 

 but quite sensible, supported by his wife on one 

 side, and another woman on the other, in a sitting 

 posture on his lowly couch spread upon the 

 ground. I addressed him at once, reminding him 

 of the promise I had made to him, and why. I 

 also spoke some words of advice to him, to which 

 he paid most earnest attention, though his cough 

 would scarcely permit him to have a moment s 

 rest. A person near expressed a fear that he did 

 not understand what I said, being so weak and 

 near death; but he quickly, and with great em- 



