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RED RIVER EXPLORING EXPEDITION. 



but when dull and cold and grey in the dawn, it sym- 

 bolizes the gloomy ignorance of its heathen wanderers. 



St. James's Church, on the Assinniboine, is a pleasing 

 object at a distance. I had no opportunity of ascertaining 

 how far its internal arrangements comported with its 

 external aspects. The congregation is the smallest in the 

 Eed Eiver settlements. 



Birch-bark Tents, west bank of Red River, Middle Settlement, 



The church at the Indian settlement is also a new 

 and spacious building of stone, with a wall of the same 

 material enclosing the churchyard, in which is a wooden 

 school-house, where I saw about fifty Ojibway Indian 

 young men, young women, and children, receiving in- 

 structions from the Eev. A. Cowley, Mrs. Cowley, and 

 a native schoolmaster. The young Indian women read 

 the Testament in soft, low voices, but with ease and in- 

 telligence. During service (Sunday, October 4th, 1857), 

 the church was about three-fourths full. The congrega- 

 tion appeared to be exclusively Indian ; in their behaviour 



