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presents and rewards for his tried and faithful 



services. 



July 25. — The servants, with the Officers, 

 assembled for divine service, and laborious as 

 is the office of a Missionary, I felt delighted 

 with its engagements ; and thought it a high 

 privilege to visit even the wild inhabitants of 

 the rocks with the simple design of extending 

 the Redeemer s kingdom among them ; and 

 that in a remote quarter of the globe, where 

 probably no Protestant Minister had ever 

 placed his foot before. The next day a northern 

 Indian leader, came to the Fort with his family ; 

 and upon making known to him the object of my 

 journey to meet the Esquimaux, he cheerfully 

 promised to give up one of his boys, a lively 

 active little fellow, to be educated at the Native 

 School Establishment at the Red River. He 

 appeared very desirous of having his boy taught 

 more than the Indians knew ; and assisted me 

 in obtaining an orphan boy from a widow 

 woman, who was in a tent at a short distance, 

 to accompany his son. I told him that they 

 must go a long way, (Churchill being about a 

 thousand miles distant from the Colony) but 

 that they would be taken great care of. He 

 made no objection, but said that they should 



