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VOYAGE TO CANADA, 



reached us, was kindling the mountain tops into a dazzling 

 radiance. You could scarcely believe that the nearest were 

 thirty miles off, so sharp were their outlines. . . . You look round 

 and see the headlands of Newfoundland, dark and gloomy, 

 snowless and sunless, their tops immersed in black clouds. M. 

 was in great ecstasies at her first sight of the New World." Next 

 day there was a fog : and the captain would not leave deck, and 

 they went very slowly. * 4 It is a mercy he was so cautious. As 

 I was writing, I heard a slight bounce, then a reverse of the 

 screw, then a stop. In a minute they brought in the second 

 officer, and laid him moaning on the floor. . . . There had 

 been a collision : a broken spar fell on him from a great height : 

 put his shoulder out, broke some ribs, etc. Five minutes after, 

 the fog had cleared off : we saw it rolling in two separate pieces 

 along the fine hills of the Canada coast, near us on the south. 

 It seems a timber-laden barque was taking advantage of a 

 favourable wind to go full sail in the fog, without signal or bell. 

 (We had been incessantly uttering the steam-howl.) Of course, 

 neither could see the other, and we ran right into the side of 

 her bows, cutting a deep gash and ripping her sail into shreds. 

 She broke the top of our mast, which fell on the poor officer. 

 It was a mercy it was no worse. Had we been going half-speed 

 only, probably her mast would have fallen on our deck, and killed 

 some thirty of the emigrants : had we been going full speed, 

 we might have cut her in two, and she might have gone down 

 without our even knowing it : so says the captain." They had 

 to. repair the ship, and take it in tow to Quebec, causing much 

 delay. 



Philip, as usual, made acquaintance with his fellow-pas- 

 sengers. " The most interesting is a solid, quiet Methodist 

 missionary, who has been for many years among the Indians, 

 between the Rocky Mountains and the Red River : they call 

 him the Praying Chief. He was among the Sioux Indians of 

 Minnesota after the massacre of the settlers, in 1862. They 

 came every half-year for their annuities, which in the war were 

 coolly stopped by the United States Government. The first 

 time they bore it, and went away : but the second time the 



