294 LABRADOR 
“The Great Spirit,’ the T'she Manitu, is wholly good, but 
remote and scarcely approachable. The conception seems 
hardly anthropomorphic at all, certainly not as clearly so 
as the Biblical one. 
What is doubtless an Indianized doctrine of the Trinity 
has had standing for many years, even in districts west of 
Hudson Bay. 
“The First One’ — Puk-wa-sha-ne-magan — “gives us 
that which we must beg for” (what is necessary for mere 
existence). 
“The Second One” — Wahkt-Kna — “gives us too much, 
more than we can use’’ — (deer, fish, etc., in great numbers). 
“The Third One” — Tshe Manitu — ‘‘is the greatest of 
all; He gives us the Fur, of which we cannot have too 
much.” 
It must be confessed that as to the concerns of the other 
world the concept is not very comprehensive. 
All notable features of the country have their local 
spirits. As a safe rule, the ordinary person does well to 
avoid them. Some are always well disposed, but as a 
spirit of bad intentions may take an attractive form for 
his own purposes, it is better for the laymen at least to have 
no dealings with any of them. The people are readily sus- 
ceptible to missionary instruction, in all earnestness put- 
ting on the new faith over the old, which may be supposed 
to relinquish its ancient hold only about in proportion as 
the hunting life is given up. This hardly occurs save with 
persons of much white blood; so long as the wilderness 
life and the language continue, the old theology will survive. 
Under the strict injunctions of the Gulf missionaries, the 
sound of the téwehigan, ‘‘the ceremonial drum,” is not heard 
