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United States officer snubbed them : they waited and ate all 

 their food : the United States man had stores : they said, Give 

 us food for our families, and stop it out of our allowance when 

 it comes. The Yankee told them to go and eat grass ! That 

 night, every white man, woman, and child in the settlements for 

 some seventy miles was murdered : farms sacked, and the rest 

 destroyed. It was Indian revenge, and not half so wicked as the 

 conduct of North and South to each other in the war. One 

 baby was found living, in a cradle ! Some parents who had been 

 at St. Paul's, leaving their children in the charge of an older 

 girl, found the bodies of all but the girl. She had been carried 

 off; and after a time she made interest with a young Indian, who 

 rode her off in the night. When they paid him at St Paul's, he 

 said it was no use to go back • and that if the Yankees had 

 taught them Christianity, instead of cheating them, this would 

 not have happened. He is now at New York, training for a 

 missionary." Philip often visited the steerage passengers, and 

 gave them several readings and addresses : and he and the 

 missionary preached on the- Sundays. 



The next month found them settled in a pleasant little 

 house, 418, Guy Street, in the outskirts of the city on the way to 

 the Mountain. Professor Dawson had found some pupils for 

 him : and the McGill University sent a formal acceptance of 

 his duplicate collection of Mazatlan shells, on the conditions 

 he had specified, the arrangement of which he soon commenced. 

 As to their religious home on Sundays, he did not at once 

 decide. Soon after his arrival, he preached * at the Unitarian 

 Church, for Dr. Cordner, during his absence from home, and 

 took a class at the Sunday school; but from his change of views 

 he did not intend to remain there. There were points in which 

 he sympathized with the Catholics : though he had no idea of 

 joining their communion. A year later, he wrote to his friend, 

 Mr. Robson : " No wonder intelligent Catholics here are dis- 

 gusted with Protestantism, and its divorce of faith from works. 



* Among his sermons, one is marked " Montreal : last part extempore : 

 February 3, 1866, * Walking worthy of the calling.'" Thenceforth, when 

 he preached, it was probably without notes. 



