CHAPTER III. 



NORWAY HOUSE. BAPTISMS. ARRIVAL AT YORK 



FACTORY. SWISS EMIGRANTS. AUXILIARY BIBLE 



SOCIETY FORMED. BOAT WRECKED. CATHOLIC 



PRIESTS. SIOUX INDIANS KILLED AT THE COLONY. 



CIRCULATION OF THE SCRIPTURES AMONG THE COL- 

 ONISTS. SCARCITY OF PROVISIONS. FISHING UNDER 



THE ICE. WILD FOWL. MEET THE INDIANS AT 



PEMBINA. THEY SCALP AN ASSINIBOINE. WAR 



DANCE. CRUELLY PUT TO DEATH A CAPTIVE BOY. 



INDIAN EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE FOR THE EDUCA- 

 TION OF HIS CHILD. STURGEON. 



The late Earl of Selkirk having suggested that, 

 " In the course of each summer, it would be 

 proper that the minister should visit the Hud- 

 son's Bay Company's factory at Norway House, 

 and also at York Fort, as a great number of 

 their servants are assembled at these places, 

 for a few weeks in summer, and have no other 

 opportunity for any public religious instruc- 

 tion ; " I left the settlement on the first of 

 August, and met, at Norway House, one of 

 the Directors of the Hudson's Bay Company, 

 and a gentleman of the North West, on their 



