336 THE POLAR WORLD. 



good lives, but the bad Indians are told to return from whence they came, and 

 without more ceremony are hurled do^\^l the precipice. 



As yet Christianity has made but little progress among the Indians of Brit- 

 ish North America, its benefits being hitherto confined to the Ojibbeways of 

 Lake Huron, and to a small number of the Crees of the Hudsoti's Bay territory. 

 The well-fed Sauteurs of the Winipeg are as disinclined to be converted as the 

 buffalo-hunters of the prairies. 



