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Our North Land. 



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habits are too revolting to admit of description. Although most of 

 them have come in contact with missionaries, they are still very- 

 superstitious, and nearly all of them extremely dishonest. There 

 are, of course, exceptions to this rule, and, upon the whole, I should 



say that their condition 

 ALPHABET. is improved through the 



instrumentality of the 

 mission. If their morals 

 afford but little oppor- 

 tunity for congratula- 

 tion, they are intellec- 

 tually better. It is quite 

 refreshing to enter the 

 hut of a Cree Indian 

 and find a copy of the 

 Old and New Testa- 

 ments on the rude table, 

 printed in his own lan- 

 guage ; and still more 

 pleasing to learn that 

 all the members of his 

 family who are of suffi- 

 cient age can read it in- 

 telligently, and write 

 the language as well. 



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CREE INDIAN SYLLABARIUM. 



These instances are 

 frequently to be met 

 with, especially among 

 the Crees and Chippe- 

 wayans. 



The latter are the 

 principal fur hunters of the north, up to the fifty-fifth parallel, 

 where, and beyond, the Eskimos occupy the country. They move 

 about in canoes in the summer, and by dog-sleds in winter. The 

 hunting season proper begins in the fall and continues untiF April. 

 During this period they are hard at work; but in the summer 



