CHAPTER IV. 



ARRIVAL OF CANOE FROM MONTREAL. LIBERAL PROVI- 

 SION FOR MISSIONARY ESTABLISHMENT. MANITOBAH 



LAKE. INDIAN GARDENS. MEET CAPTAIN FRANKLIN 



AND OFFICERS OF THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION, AT YORK 



FACTORY. FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE AUXILIARY 



BIBLE SOCIETY. HALF-CASTE CHILDREN. AURORA 



BOREALIS. CONVERSATION WITH PIGEWIS. GOOD 



HARVEST AT THE SETTLEMENT, AND ARRIVAL OF 



CATTLE FROM UNITED STATES. MASSACRE OF 



HUNTERS. PRODUCE OF GRAIN AT THE COLONY. 



On the 20th of June, the light canoe arrived 

 from Montreal, which brought me letters from 

 England ; and no one ever received news from 

 a far country, which gladdened the heart more 

 than these letters did mine. My family were 

 all well; and a liberal provision had been 

 made, for a Missionary establishment at the 

 Red River, for the maintenance and education 

 of native Indian children, by the Church Mis- 

 sionary Society. In conveying this information 

 to me, an active friend to the communication 

 of Christianity to the Indians, observes, " I hope 



