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would " make snow house, good, properly, for 

 him in winter ; and bring plenty of musk oxen 

 and deer for him to eat." Captain Franklin 

 expressed much interest for this harmless race 

 of Indians : and having spoken to the Go- 

 vernor of this northern district, I have resolved 

 upon visiting Churchill, next July, in the hope 

 of meeting the tribe on their visit to that 

 Factory, and to obtain information, as to the 

 practicability of sending a schoolmaster amongst 

 them, or forming a school for the education of 

 their children. 



During my stay at the Factory, we held the 

 first anniversary meeting of the Auxiliary Bible 

 Society, and were warmly assisted by Captain 

 Franklin and the gentlemen of the expedition . 

 It appeared that the amount of donations and 

 annual subscriptions for the past year, i. e. from 

 Sept. 2nd, 1821, when the Society was first 

 formed, to Sept. 2nd, 1822, was 200/. 0s. 6d. 

 the whole of which sum was remitted to the 

 parent institution in London ; and the very 

 encouraging sum of sixty pounds was sub- 

 scribed at the meeting, towards the collection 

 for the second year. 



There were but few persons who came out by 

 the ship for the Colony this year, as the succession 

 of difficulties we had met with, had lessened the 



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