326 THE POLAR WORLD. 



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

 without more ceremony are hurled down 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 Hudson's Bay territory. 

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

 buffalo-hunters of the prairies. 



