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Egerton Ryerson Young. By Canoe and Dog-Train
By Canoe and Dog-Train
Table of Contents
Chapter One. The summons to the Indian work — The decision — The valedictory services — Dr. Punshon — The departure — Leaving Hamilton — St. Catherine's — Milwaukee custom-house delays — Mississippi — St. Paul's — On the prairies — Frontier settlers — Narrow escape from shooting one of our school teachers — Sioux Indians and their wars — Saved by our flag — Varied experiences
Chapter Two. Still on the route — Fort Garry — Breaking up of our party of missionaries — Lower Fort — Hospitable Hudson's Bay officials — Peculiarities — Fourteen days in a little open boat on stormy Lake Winnipeg — Strange experiences — Happy Christian Indian boatmen — “In perils by waters.”
Chapter Three. Arrival at Norway House — Our new home — Rev. Charles Stringfellow — Thunderstorm — Rev. James Evans — Syllabic Characters invented — Difficulties overcome — Help from English Wesleyan Missionary Society — Extensive use of the Syllabic Characters — Our people, Christian and pagan — Learning lessons by dear experience — The hungry woman — The man with the two ducks — The first Sabbath in our new field — Sunday School and Sabbath services — Family altars
Chapter Four. Constant progress — Woman's sad condition in paganism — Illustrations — Wondrous changes produced by Christianity — Illustrations — New Year's Day Christian Festival — The aged and feeble ones first remembered — Closing Thanksgiving services
Chapter Five. Oxford House mission — Visited by canoe — Description of this useful craft-Indian skill — Oxford Lake — Dr. Taylor — Edward Papanekis — Still on the trail by birch canoe — Narrow escape from being crushed by the ice — On stormy Lake Winnipeg — Pioneering farther north — Successes — “Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us” — Christ accepted in the place of idols
Chapter Six. The wild north land — The two methods of travel, by canoe and dog-train — The native dogs — St. Bernard and Newfoundland dogs — The dog sleds — The guide — The dog drivers — The long journeys — Night travelling — Wondrous visions of the night
Chapter Seven. On the trail with the dogs, to fields ripe for the reaper — The place — The trip — The winter camp — The bitter cold — Enduring hardness — Death shaking hands with us — Many days on the trail
Chapter Eight. Nelson River — A demonstrative welcome — First religious service — A four hours' sermon — The chief's eloquent reply — The old man with grandchildren in his wigwam — “Our Father” — “Then we are brothers” — “Yes” — “Then why is the white brother so long time in coming with the Gospel to his red brother?” — Glorious successes
Chapter Nine. A welcome accession — The Rev. John Semmens — A devoted young missionary — First to reside At Nelson River — In labours and in perils oft — In journeyings oft by dog-trains together — The centenarian old Christian — William Papanekis — His godly life and wondrous translation
The Centenarian
Chapter Ten. Rev. James Evans, the peerless missionary — His journeys by canoe and dog-train — The Cree Syllabic Characters, his invention — Lord Dufferin's words concerning him — His successes — His trials — Accidental shooting of his interpreter — Surrendering himself to the avengers — Adopted into a pagan family — Visit to England — Sudden death
Chapter Eleven. Sowing and reaping — Beautiful incident — “Help me to be a Christian!” — Thirty years between the sowing and the reaping — Sorrowing, yet stubborn, Indians induced to yield by the expression, “I know where your children are!”
Chapter Twelve. On the trail to Sandy Bar — Sleeping on the ice — Thievish Esquimaux Dogs — Narrow Escape of Jack — Joyous Welcome — Society formed — Benjamin Cameron, once a cannibal, now a lay helper — Plum-pudding — A striking instance of honesty
Chapter Thirteen. An Indian Lovefeast — Many witnesses — Sweet songs of Zion — The Lord's Supper — Memoir of William Memotas, the devoted Christian
William Memotas
Chapter Fourteen. Varied duties — Christianity must precede civilisation — Illustrations — Experimental farming — Ploughing with dogs — Abundance of fish — Visits from far-off Indians — Some come to disturb — Many sincere inquirers after the truth — “Where is the Missionary?” — Beren's River Mission begun — Timothy Bear — Perils on the ice
Chapter Fifteen. Small-pox pestilence — Heroic conduct of Christian Indians — Whites supplied with provisions by Red men — The guide Samuel Papanekis — His triumphant death — Nancy, the happy widow — In poverty, yet rejoicing
Chapter Sixteen. A race for life in a blizzard storm — Saved by the marvellous intelligence of Jack — “Where is the old man, whose head was like the snow-drift?”
Chapter Seventeen. Work outside the pulpit — Polygamy and its evils — Family re-arrangements — Dangerous work at times — Practical pastoral duties — A fish sermon — Five men won to Christ
Chapter Eighteen. Exploring new fields — The Gospel before treaties — Big Tom's noble spirit of self-sacrifice
Chapter Nineteen. The mission among the Saulteaux established — Nelly's death — Missionary anniversaries attended — Rev. Thomas Crosby — Travelling adventures — More working with dogs — Our new home — Visit from a chieftainess — Closing words
THE END
