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in character, taught it with slight modifications to both 

 Chipewyan and Cree, printed and bound the Testaments 

 and the Bible for distribution, and gone out into the 

 woods to hunt their meat, and to suffer from cold, perhaps 



Caribou-Eater 



TYPES OF NORTHLAND INDIANS 

 From a Photograph by Mr. Whitney 



to starve, along with the Indians to whom they would 

 preach the Word of God. I care not whether one's form 

 of belief be for or against the doctrine preached by these 

 men, one must be petty indeed who cannot rise above 

 religious prejudices and respect these workers, that, east 

 and west, north and south, have gone far in advance of 

 the pioneer, far beyond the plaudits of civilization, to 

 carry their faith into the very heart of the wilderness. 



I am sure Dr. W. M. Mackay, the 'Hudson Bay Com- 

 pany officer in charge, and his right and left bowers, " Ned " 

 Camsell and " Sam " Emerson, would consider that I had 



