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the solution of the grave problems described. 

 &quot;The Sunday services, under police supervision, 

 were practically the only religious ordinance; 

 and the people were entirely absorbed in their 

 fast-increasing worldly possessions.&quot; 



The crisis came through an ultimatum of the crisis and 

 C. M. S. to Mr. Duncan requiring him &quot;either Sece88ion 

 (1) to come to England at once for conference, 

 or (2) to facilitate the Bishop s plans for the 

 religious instruction of the people, or (3) to hand 

 over the mission wholly to the Bishop and leave 

 the place.&quot; The immediate result was the local 

 secession of Duncan and 900 of his followers 

 with the establishment of a boycott against the 

 loyal remnant of about 100 ; the final result came 

 in an unexpected way. &quot;The Colonial Govern 

 ment, at last, took decisive measures, sending 

 up a ship-of-war and arresting eight Indians 

 who had been ringleaders in an outrage on Mrs. 

 Ridley during the Bishop s absence. Thereupon 

 Mr. Duncan went off to New York and Wash 

 ington, enlisted the sympathy of American friends 

 who knew nothing of the circumstances, and 

 appealed for protection to the President of the 

 United States. In his petition he, in the name of 

 500 Indians, renounced their allegiance to the 

 Queen, and solemnly promised never again to 

 come under the British flag. The result was a 

 a grant to him of land on American territory, at 

 the extreme south end of Alaska, just beyond the 

 British boundary, and only seventy miles from 

 Metlakahtla; and thither, in the summer of 



