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the Indian grave-yard and under no account 

 should his body be sent to England. 



In the forty years of his ministrations this 

 great man made more trips to and from the 

 Arctic Circle than any other man that has ever 

 lived. He had the Indian's instinct for travel 

 — for finding his own way all alone in safety 

 to any point or section of country that he 

 wanted to reach. It goes without saying that 

 he often suffered from want of provisions and 

 prolonged hunger, that his resting place at 

 night was frequently in a snowdrift. It is 

 said that several times he had to eat the tops 

 of his leather boots to keep from starving. 

 Yet there was no complaining; he was cheer- 

 ful at all times, with a kind word and a happy 

 smile for the white man, the Indian, or the 

 Esquimaux. 



No wonder then that his name is now held 

 in high honor and reverence on the watersheds 

 of the Mackenzie, the Peace, the Pelly, the 

 Macmillan, the Liard, the Red, the Porcu- 

 pine, and the Yukon rivers. Had he been of 

 the Roman Catholic faith it is altogether likely 

 that in time he would have been canonized and 

 known as the "Martyr of the Northwest 

 Territory." 



