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any other place I ever lived at. Purity of life 

 leads to health, and that to happy homes full of 

 chubby children. Such is the actual condition of 

 Metlakahtla, and it has a hopeful future.&quot; 



Among the early ordained reinforcements, Rev . w. H 

 the first I think to hold his ground, was the Rev. Colli8on 

 W. H. Collison, now Archdeacon, to whose 

 reminiscences we are indebted for some of our 

 further descriptions of the missions. 



On his way up the coast to Metlakahtla the 

 small trading steamer called at all the posts. 

 &quot;At one encampment to the North of Van 

 couver s Island a French Roman Catholic Mis 

 sion had been established for some time, and as 

 our steamer anchored at the village the mission 

 ary came on board. Having been introduced by 

 the captain, I inquired from the good father as 

 to what measure of success he had achieved in his 

 mission. Success! he exclaimed. Why, I can 

 do nothing amongst them. Only yesterday they 

 stole the blankets off my bed. I have laboured 

 amongst several tribes of Indians in the interior, 

 but I have never found any so bad as these. 

 And, he said, we are about to abandon the 

 Mission. This they did shortly after, and in 

 1877 the Church Missionary Society entered on 

 the field amongst the Quagulth tribes, the Rev. 

 A. J. Hall first occupying Fort Rupert as his Rev&amp;gt; A j 

 headquarters, and afterwards Alert Bay.&quot; This 

 is interesting as the second example of a success- Bay 

 ful work being established upon ground, where 

 the Roman Catholics had failed to make head- 



