Heritics, _read_ Heretics.
131, line 24, _for_ Loom, _read_ Loon.
156, line 3, _for_ a, _read_ no.
180, line 3, _for_ intrepedity, _read_ intrepidity.
204, line 19, _for_ intention it, _read_ intention of it.

PREFACE.

We live in a day when the most distant parts of the earth are opening
as the sphere of Missionary labours. The state of the heathen world is
becoming better known, and the sympathy of British Christians has been
awakened, in zealous endeavours to evangelize and soothe its sorrows.
In these encouraging signs of the times, the Author is induced to give
the following pages to the public, from having traversed some of the
dreary wilds of North America, and felt deeply interested in the
religious instruction and amelioration of the condition of the natives.
They are wandering, in unnumbered tribes, through vast wildernesses,
where generation after generation have passed away, in gross ignorance
and almost brutal degradation.

Should any information he is enabled to give excite a further Christian
sympathy, and more active benevolence in their behalf, it will truly
rejoice his heart: and his prayer to God, is, that the Aborigines of a
British Territory, may not remain as outcasts from British Missionary
exertions; but may be raised through their instrumentality, to what
they are capable of enjoying, the advantages of civilized and social
life, with the blessings of Christianity.

September, 1824.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

CHAPTER I.--Departure from England. Arrival at the Orkney Isles. Enter
Hudson's Straits. Icebergs. Esquimaux. Killing a Polar Bear. York
Factory. Embarked for the Red River Colony. Difficulties of the
Navigation. Lake Winipeg. Muskeggowuck, or Swamp Indians. Pigewis, a
chief of the Chipewyans, or Saulteaux Tribe. Arrival at the Red River.
Colonists. School established. Wolf dogs. Indians visit Fort Douglas.
Design of a Building for Divine Worship 1

CHAPTER II.--Visit the School. Leave the Forks for Qu'appelle. Arrival
at Brandon House. Indian Corpse staged. Marriages at Company's Posts.
Distribution of the Scriptures. Departure from Brandon House.
Encampment. Arrival at Qu'appelle. Character and Customs of Stone
Indians. Stop at some Hunter's Tents on return to the Colony. Visit
Pembina. Hunting Buffaloes. Indian address. Canadian Voyageurs. Indian
Marriages. Burial Gro