y-five years. It was in some sort of
tar sand, of which we have seen a good deal on our journey.
Tied up at 10 o'clock. There is a whole village of Mountain
Indians here at the foot of the bluff. A wild sight. The
tepees are pitched very close together. Hundreds of dogs.
Children are eating and running around everywhere. The boat
whistled, and the dogs all ran off up the hill and the
children screamed. They say that five years ago these wild
Indians left this place and went across the mountains to the
Stuart River to trade. They brought back Yukon stoves for
their tents, the same as they have up in Alaska. They came
down the Gravel River here in skin boats. Their birch-bark
canoes look like Eskimo kayaks. They have a short deck fore
and aft, and sharply slanting stem and stern posts. The bow
does not curve back.

"Fort Norman is on a high bluff. The H. B. Company has put
in some stairs. Not very many buildings, very little goods,
and little fur. We did some trading with the Indians for
trinkets. There is an Anglican church here, a very small
building. The little bell rang, and our bishop started over
to hold services. It was said that these Indians who had
come back from the Stuart River wanted to go to church
again, so this service was held for them. It was the first
time in five years in this church. There was a wedding
there to-night, they tell me, and several children were
christened, three or four years of age. One child was named
Woodrow Wilson Quasinay. We did it for a joke, but the
parents thought it was a fine name! He was four years old,
and very dirty, and cried a good deal when he got his name.

"We are getting to where the sun does not stay down very
long. The bishop read his services to-night by the natural
light of the window. With the bishop's consent we made a
flash-light picture of this scene in the church. Then there
was Holy Communion. The services were not done when the
whistle of the boat blew and everybody had to run to get on
board. The captain scolded the bishop for being so late!
This is a funny country, I think.

"This closes a week which has been quite full of events, I
think. Jesse and John very happy. The pictures around us
seem more savage. We are getting into the Far North of which
we h