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finding its body or skeleton. As elephant bodies 

 are known to have been found on the Siberian 

 coasts, it is still less strange that they should be 

 found near the Mackenzie, for the current sets 

 eastward from Behring s Strait.&quot; 



On the division of his huge diocese, Bishop 

 Bompas assumed charge of the northern part: 

 Selkirk now the Diocese of the Yukon. He was 

 succeeded in the Mackenzie River by the Right 

 Bishop Reeve. Rev. W. D. Reeve. The latter paid a visit to the 

 Eskimo on the Arctic Coast eastward of the 

 Mackenzie delta. 



One of the writer s clearest memories of his 

 student days, is the personal appeal of Bishop 

 Reeve on behalf of the Eskimo. The result of 

 that appeal is now known throughout the length 

 and breadth of the Anglican Communion; it was 

 Rev. i. o. the enlistment of the Rev. I. O. Stringer and the 

 stringer, 1894 founding of the Herschell Island Mission. Three 

 Mr. c. E. years later he was joined by Mr. C. E. Whittaker; 

 whittaker and toget i ler&amp;gt; with Mrs. Stringer, they went to 

 live upon the Island; &quot;the most northerly in- 

 Herscheii habited spot, in the British Dominions, and 

 island, 1897 p er h a p s the most inaccessible ; a bleak, desolate, 

 treeless island, icebound for nine months in the 

 year, and surrounded by floating masses of it 

 during the short summer.&quot; The Captains of the 

 American whaling vessels, wintering there, sub 

 scribed six hundred dollars towards the founding 

 of the Mission. 



Years of Here, as elsewhere, among the Eskimo the 



Waiting missionaries seemed confronted with the maxi- 



