Down North and Up Along 
enabled him to surmount all obstacles and take 
his place in the field of work he had chosen 
and in the society that his education had fitted 
him fi^r. 
He had ministered for a number of years to 
the people of Cape North, as no one had done 
before, and as no one has done since. He 
loved them, that we could see, as in his sym- 
pathetic way he told us of them, of their hard 
lives, their idiosyncrasies and their virtues, and 
although he had a quick sense of humour there 
was ever love shining back of his laughter. 
He mapped out the route for us from Bad- 
deck to the extreme end of Cape North, and 
told us where and with whom to stay along the 
road. 
At Baddeck, we learned much of Parson 
Gibbons' work, how he had gone once a month 
the whole length of Cape North, often walking 
the distance of one hundred miles over moun- 
tains and through swamps. More than once 
he had stumbled into a friend's house, on his 
return from the north, quite exhausted and 
with blood-stained shoes. 
No other name is so well known and so 
loved on that rude coast, as we were soon to 
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