invitation of Memotas, and became an interested member of
his class. He seemed to live in a new world, and when he contrasted
what he had witnessed nearly all his days amid the darkness and evils of
the pagan Indians with what he saw among this happy Christian people,
instructed by the missionaries out of the book of heaven, his dream came
up vividly before him, and now it had a meaning as never before. Here,
in this Christian village, were the people of his own race whom he had
seen in the bright and happy way, with Jesus as their guide, and the
beautiful heaven beyond as their destination.

As he studied them more and more, the more importunate and anxious he
became to have the missionary of this station go and visit his people,
and thus prepare the way for their own missionary when he should come to
live among them.

Oowikapun's anxiety for light, and his intense interest in everything
that pertained to the progress of the people, and, above all, his
resolve to succeed in getting the missionary, created a great deal of
interest among the villagers. With their usual open-hearted
hospitality, they invited him to their comfortable homes, and from many
of them he learned much to help him along in the good way.

So marvellously had Christianity lifted up and benefited the people that
Oowikapun with his simple forest ways, at times felt keenly his
ignorance as he contrasted his crude life with what he now witnessed.

A genuine civilisation following Christianity had come to many of these
once degraded tribes, and now comfortable homes and large and happy
family circles are to be found where not a generation ago all was dark
and degraded, and the sweet word "home" was utterly unknown.

The conversion of some of these Indians was very remarkable, and the
recital of how they had come out of the darkness into the light was most
helpful to him.

When there is a disposition to surrender we are easily conquered, and
such was the condition of mind in which was the missionary to whom
Oowikapun had come with his earnest appeals. The decision to go was no
sooner reached than the preparation began to be made for the long
journey, which would occupy at least a month. Four dog-trains had to be
taken. A train consists of four dogs harnessed up in tandem style. The
sleds are about ten feet long and sixteen inches wide. They are made of
two oak boards, and are similar in construction, but much stronger than
the sleds used on