lived. This representative of the Government, a man of noble feelings
and generous impulses, threw over us the shield of Royal protection.

After the issuing of the goods to the Indians, Peter Jones remained with
the Huron and Georgian Bay Indians, and preached to them with great
power; while I went on board a schooner, with the Yellowhead Indians,
for the Narrows, on the northern shore of Lake Simcoe, near Orillia,
where the Indians owned Yellowhead (now Chief) Island, and which I
examined with a view of selecting a place for worship, and for
establishing a school. A Mission-school was established on this island.
It was afterwards removed by Rev. S. (now Dr.) Rose and others to the
mainland at Orillia, and was faithfully taught by the late William Law
(1827) and by the Rev. S. Rose (1831).

An amusing incident occurred during this little voyage on the schooner,
which was managed by the French traders who had threatened my life two
days before. The wind was light, and the sailors amused themselves with
music--one of them playing on a fife. He was attempting to play a tune
which he had not properly learned. I was walking the deck, and told him
to give me the fife, when I played the tune. The Frenchmen gathered
around my feet, and looked with astonishment and delight. From that hour
they were my warm friends, and offered to paddle me in their canoes
among the islands and along the shore wherever I wished to go.

By the advice of some of my brethren, I called on the
Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Peregrine Maitland, after I arrived in Toronto,
for the purpose of giving him a general account of the progress of the
Christian religion amongst the Indian tribes I said to him:--

"The object I have in view is the amelioration of the condition of
the Indians in this Province. The importance of this, both to the
happiness of the Indian tribes, and the honour of the government
under which they live, has been deeply felt by the parent state, so
forcibly that a church was built and the Protestant religion
introduced amongst the Six-Nations at the Grand River, about the
beginning of the century. This effort of Christian benevolence has
been so far successful as to induce some hundreds of them to
receive the ordinances of the Christian religion. But the Chippewa
tribes have hitherto been overlooked, till about four years ago,
when the Methodists introduced the Christian religion amo